conclusions our results show that the self-management angina plan was effective in improving perception of qol and reducing anxiety. further studies with a larger sample size and a longer follow-up period are recommended to better understand the effectiveness of this plan. background coronary artery diseases are the most frequent cause of mortality in industrialized countries as well as iran. c...

objectives this study aimed to examine the effect of a hospital-based educational program based on the constructs of the health belief model (hbm) on self-care behaviors of patients with hf. methods this controlled quasi-experimental study consisted of 84 patients with hf (42 patients in an intervention group and 42 in a control group) who were admitted to two large, specialized, referral hospi...

background: living with schizophrenic patients and its associated stress and negative psychological burden can bring about different experiences for their families. the provision of stress management training for these families can be helpful in increasing self-confidence and enhancing interpersonal communication in these caregivers, which can improve their mental health status and enhance the ...

an explanatory study was conducted to investigate the nursing care provided to patients with toxemia of pregnancy hospitalized in the medical sciences university hospitals gynecology wards in tehran.   a tot al of 65 patients with toxemia hospitalized in gynecologic wards in 14 hospitals supervised by tehran,   shahid beheshti and iran universities were selected.   the data were gathered upon r...

background: consumer satisfaction is recognized as an important parameter for assessing the quality of patient care services. materials and methods: by using quota sampling method and questionnaire device, 392 mothers were selected who had been hospitalized for cesarean section in the public and private hospitals of tabriz. statistical package for social sciences (spss) version 13, descriptive ...

background posttraumatic stress disorder (ptsd) is a severe anxiety disorder occurred due to past adverse experiences. several researches have demonstrated that ptsd is quite common among patients discharged from critical care unit. conclusions prevalence of ptsd is high among patients discharged from icus and some medical individual factors such as elderly, unemployed, being single, using mech...

BACKGROUND Multidisciplinary team meetings and shared decision-making are potential means of delivering patient-centred care. Not much is known about how those two paradigms fit together in cancer care. This study aimed to investigate how decisions are made in multidisciplinary team meetings and whether patient perspectives are incorporated in these decisions. MATERIALS AND METHODS A qualitat...

BACKGROUND Professional misconduct in healthcare, a (generally) lasting situation in which patients are at risk or actually harmed, can jeopardise the health and well-being of patients and the quality of teamwork. Two types of professional misconduct can be distinguished: misconduct associated with incompetence and that associated with impairment. This study aimed to (1) quantify home-care nurs...

BACKGROUND The care of cardiac transplant patients is complex requiring a finely orchestrated endeavor to save a patient's life. Given the chronic and complex nature of these patients, multiple disciplines are involved in their care. Recognizing difficulties with communication among team members and striving for improved efficiencies in our pretransplant listing process and in our inpatient car...

Health systems with strong primary care orientations are known to be associated with improved equity, better access for patients to appropriate services at lower costs, and improved population health. Team-based models of primary care have emerged in response to health system challenges due to complex patient profiles, patient expectations and health system demands. Successful team-based models...