Background & Objectives: Self-care behaviors are essential in helping patients suffering from heart failure to deal with their illness problems. With this regard, encouraging patients to participate in and take the responsibility of performing the proper self-care behavior can lead to complication management. The current study aimed to examine the self-care abilities in patients with hear...

  Background & Aim: Psychological and social factors such as attachment styles may influence chronic diseases through self-care behaviors. This study was conducted to determine the relationship between attachment styles and self-care behaviors in patients with heart failure .   Methods & Materials: In this correlational study, 180 patients with heart failure hospitalized in CCUs and Post CCU...

Background and objectives: Although in many developed and developing countries, self care is the most important part of primary care, in Iran it has not been supported as well as its values. The aim of this study was to assess the views of general people living in south of Tehran about self care. Methods: This was a population based study in which 1200 individuals aged 15 years and over were...

Background and Objective: Breastfeeding is one of the main factors in the health and survival of babies and affects countless social and economic factors. The aim of this study was to determine the factors affecting breastfeeding self-care in nulliparous women who referred to the health centers in Hamadan city, Iran, 2017. Materials and Methods: This study was performed as a descriptive-analyt...

Background and Objectives: Diabetes is common among chronic diseases. Various factors such as personality and psychological traits have role in self-care and control in this disease Aim of This study is determination the relationship between self- care and locus of control in patients with type 2 diabetes. Method: This cross-sectional study carried out on 180 patients with diabetes mellitus typ...

This study with a co relational design has conducted to determine relationship between caregiving strain and self-efficacy in family caregiver of patient with Alzheimer. Accessible sample of the study consisted of 81 family caregivers that all of them were member of Iranian Alzheimer Association. Data was gathered by demographic, self-efficacy and care giving strain questioners. Findings showed...

Background and purpose: Heart failure is one of the most common chronic diseases with high mortality rate. Self-care training is effective in reducing the number of hospitalizations and improves the quality of life in these patients. However, the influence of such training was not found to be viable in previous interventions. This study was conducted to determine the effect of training based on...