background: nowadays, quality of patient care is one of the major and important concerns of health care delivery which is extremely dependent on the medical staff. objectives: the purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between quality of work life (qwl) and quality of patient care. methods: this study was a descriptive-analytic study based on correlation which was conducted i...

introduction renal transplant is the best treatment of choice for patients with end-stage renal disease (1). annually, about 17000 patients receive deceased or living donor transplants, which help them promote health and self-efficacy (1-2). however, despite advances in transplant technology, patients face a number of post-operative challenges, which might lead to stress in patients, including ...

conclusion social support indirectly and quality of life directly affect stress during pregnancy. thus, health officials should attempt to establish measures to further enhance social support and quality of life of pregnant women to reduce stress and its consequences during this time. results the final path model fitted well (cf1 = 3, rmsea = 0.00) and showed that direct quality of life paths w...

the purpose of current survey is to determine the effectiveness of stress management training on the quality of life of divorced women who are under support of baharestan township welfare organization. the used method for this survey was quasi-experimental by designing pre test-post test with evidence group. statistical population of the study includes 587 divorced. the top thirty women in qual...

APA's Awards for Distinguished Scientific Early Career Contributions to Psychology recognize excellent young psychologists who have not held a doctoral degree for more than nine years. One of the 2014 award winners is J. David Creswell, for "outstanding and innovative research on mechanisms linking stress management strategies to disease." Creswell's award citation, biography, and a selected bi...

In our previous studies, psychological stress was shown to enhance operant escape responding of male and female rats. The stressors that produced hyperalgesia were physical restraint and social defeat. Nociceptive input also elicits stress reactions, generating the prediction that pain would facilitate pain under certain circumstances. For example, the usual method of evaluating stress in labor...

introduction: today, stress is one of the human’s problems particularly in developing and developed countries. so, many people try to determine these factors and presented suitable solutions. the purpose of this research was to determine job stressors among librarians of isfahan university of medical sciences, iran in 2009. methods: this study was survey research in which data was collected by ...