INTRODUCTION Considering that empowering expectant mothers is an important issue to maintain a healthy pregnancy, this study was conducted to evaluate the predictors of empowerment among Iranian pregnant women. METHODS This cross sectional study was conducted in Golestan, North of Iran in 2015. A total number of 161 pregnant women were selected through random cluster sampling from urban healt...

Background: Nursing profession is increasingly confronted with many challenges, thus nurses must be empowered to participate in all levels of decision making to enhance their commitment and improve patient care. Aim: This study aimed at identifying the influence of empowerment on nurses’ participation in decision making PDM. Method: Descriptive-correlation design was used. The study subjects in...

AIM The purpose of this theoretical paper is to propose an integrated model of nurse/patient empowerment that could be used as a guide for creating high-quality nursing practice work environments that ensure positive outcomes for both nurses and their patients. BACKGROUND There are few integrated theoretical approaches to nurse and patient empowerment in the literature, although nurse empower...

BACKGROUND Chronic back pain (CBP) represents a significant public health problem. As one of the most common causes of disability and sick leave, there is a need to develop cost-effective ways, such as Internet-based interventions, to help empower patients to manage their disease. Research has provided evidence for the effectiveness of Internet-based interventions in many fields, but it has pai...

corporate entrepreneurship is a process of discovery, evaluation and exploitation of new business opportunities within a company or organization to create new products and services. therefore, the staff psychological empowerment is one of the most important concerns for successful organizations. this study can be considered an applied research based on its goal and data collection is descriptiv...

geography as an interdisciplinary science that always trying to play their proper role in development process, it has been focused so much attention on the women as half of development power. this research with interdisciplinary approach is trying to analyze influence of ict on empowerment of rural women in the central part of lahijan eparchy. then applied the explanatory approach. field studie...

BACKGROUND Both contraceptive use and fertility rates are high fertility in Malawi. Status of women remains low and is believed to affect reproductive health decisions including use of Long Acting and Permanent Contraceptives Method (LAPCM). OBJECTIVE This study seeks to examine the relationship between women empowerment and LAPCM. A measure of women's empowerment is derived from the women's ...

The scope of this study is to identify what empowerment strategies were addressed for the promotion of health in health research, characterizing them from a socio-critical and post-structuralist standpoint. It involved an Integrative Review conducted in May 2011 of the Medline, Lilacs and SciELO databases. The inclusion criteria were complete research articles, case reports or experience report...

Enterprise Systems (ES), historically justified as means of control, are paradoxically also becoming integral to empowerment. Some researchers suggest that achieving the right balance between control and empowerment is a key challenge for today’s organizations. Others argue that such simple dichotomous conceptualizations fail to account for the co-existence in practice of a high degree of contr...