objective: there is considerable evidence suggesting that cancer patients suffer from substantial and long-term psychological distress associated with different forms of cancer and its medical treatment. therefore, the aim of present study was to investigate the effectiveness of psychoeducational interventions on the improvement of psychological well-being in patients with cancer aged 20 to 40 ...

Background: Active memory is the search engine of the mind. Active memory is a cognitive function responsible for preserving instant information, its manipulation, and its use in thinking. This study aimed at investigating the effects of active memory practices on intelligence profiles in students with Specific Learning Disorder (SLD). Methods: This was a quasi-experimental study with a prete...

BACKGROUND Knee osteoarthritis (KOA) is a significant health issue because it causes pain and functional limitation. Many studies have reported that moxibustion, a treatment in traditional Korean medicine, is effective in treating KOA. However, conventional moxibustion produces smoke, harmful gases, and odors that can adversely affect the eyes, skin, and throat. It is also difficult to control ...

The aim of this study was to contrast the likelihood that a husband's elderly mother receives financial assistance from a couple with that of a wife's mother. Prior U.S.-based research has documented a strong bias toward transfers to wives' parents. The authors aimed to extend this literature to Mexico, where financial help from adult children is a critical source of support for a rapidly aging...

44 Asia Pacific Journal of Health Management 2015; 10: 2 health volunteers was mainly to deliver home-based personal care for people with disabilities, while health professionals focused mainly on controlling the quality of care, managing the knowledge and skills of volunteers, and co-ordinating the network. The difference between ADL scores before and after the implementation of the model (n=2...

OBJECTIVE to evaluate national and international literature regarding the use of educational technologies to encourage self care in postpartum women. METHOD an integrative review of the literature. The articles were collected from the CINAHL, SCOPUS, PubMed, SciELO, LILACS and Cochrane databases; the time period for the articles referred to January/2004 to July/2014; the languages used in the...

introduction: the present study aimed to assess the efficacy of use of combined cognitive interventions to prepare the child and parent, and distraction of child’s attention on reported intensity of pain, distress caused by lumbar puncture, and situation-related quality of life of children with cancer. method : this was a clinical trial using pretest-posttest method and a control group. study...

objectives: patients suffering from mild to moderate knee osteoarthritis may be treated with unloader knee orthoses or laterally wedged insoles. the aim of this study was to identify and compare the effects of two orthoses in these patients. methods: 56 patients with medial compartment knee oa were evaluated when wearing an unloader knee orthosis and insoles with a 6° lateral wedge which were r...

The efficacy of academic-mind-set interventions has been demonstrated by small-scale, proof-of-concept interventions, generally delivered in person in one school at a time. Whether this approach could be a practical way to raise school achievement on a large scale remains unknown. We therefore delivered brief growth-mind-set and sense-of-purpose interventions through online modules to 1,594 stu...