although current guidelines place single leukotriene receptor antagonists use as a therapeutic option in mild persistent asthma, there is still uncertainty about its place. in this study efficiency of montelukast monotherapy in children with moderate persistent asthma was evaluated. children (age 6 to 16) with persistent moderate asthma were treated prospectively with budesonide combined with m...

background: culturally specific care requires that nursing students know, understand, and identify cultural factors related to client care, and conduct their nursing practice accordingly. the aim of this study was to identify the cultural self-efficacy of baccalaureate nursing students in a greek university. materials and methods: in this cross-sectional study, a transcultural self-efficacy too...

background: hemophilia is a chronic bleeding disease and can interfere with daily performance of children. these children require continuous training to prevent bleeding. since children nurses play an important role in the education of sick children and their self-efficacy and the increase use of educational computer games, the use of educational games for teaching self-efficacy to children wit...

introduction: acne scar is formed after severe episodes of acne in teen and earlyadult years. several treatment options have been used for depressed acne scars suchas punch grafting, punch excision carbon dioxide (co2) laser etc. moreover, studiesshow that laser skin resurfacing such as co2 fractional can effectively treat depressedacne scars. we investigated the efficacy of fractional co2 lase...

background the world health organization identifies oral health as a necessity for public health through the entirety of life. this issue has been considerably addressed due to susceptibility to tooth decay during pregnancy and maternal and fetal health. results according to the independent t-test, the mean score of knowledge, perceived susceptibility, self-efficacy, and dmft was not different ...

background this study aimed to assess the effects of maternal self-efficacy and oral health-related knowledge on pre-school children oral hygiene behavior. materials and methods this cross-sectional study was conducted on 301 mothers with children aged 2–6 years old randomly selection from health centers of tabriz, iran.  data were collected using self-report questionnaires including demographi...

conclusions students had moderate self-efficacy. several factors such as environment, nursing colleagues, and clinical educators could influence the creation of clinical self-efficacy in nursing students. results in the quantitative part, 58 students completed the self-efficacy questionnaire; the mean score was 219.28 ± 35.8, which showed moderate self-efficacy in students. self-efficacy was di...

conclusions as one of the manifestations and the moving force of empowerment, education is the first major strategy in codifying, designing, and implementing empowerment programs. for women to be empowered, the active participation of all people in education is required. results results indicated that the frequency of domestic violence against participating women was significant after education...

results the data revealed that self-efficacy (p < 0.001) and social support (p < 0.001) are indicators than can significantly anticipate levels of adjustment in diabetic patients. moreover, it has been revealed that self-efficiency plays a significant and, indeed, fundamental role in adjustment anticipation. conclusions it can be concluded that self-efficacy and social support are important in ...

b a ckground: the present study was designed to investigate the insecticidal efficacy of four different classes of in-secticides: pyrethroids, organophosphates, phenyl-pyrazoles and neo-nicotenoids. one representative chemical from each class was selected to compare the toxicity: deltamethrin from pyrethroids, dichlorovinyl dimethyl phosphate (ddvp) from organophosphates, fipronil from phenyl-p...