Background & Aim: Families of patients with cancer during the course of their care of patients suffer from various economic, physical, social, psychological and spiritual challenges that cause their burden of care. Understanding the correlation between care and hope in these families can be effective in establishing a support system to reduce this burden. The aim of this study was to explore th...

Objective Spiritual health of caregivers has association with the patients’ health, but less attention has been paid to spiritual self-care education in health programs. This study aimed to assess the effect of spiritual self-care education on the care burden of mothers with children in hospitalized in Intensive Care Units (ICUs) for open heart surgery. Methods This quasi-experimental study wa...

 Background and purpose: Stigma and burden of care in caregivers of patients with schizophrenia have negative effects on the patient and their families. This research aimed to determine the effect of self-care training based on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) on perceived stigma and caregiver burden of schizophrenic patients. Materials and methods: This randomized clinical trial includ...

Introduction: Chronic patient care causes  some problems, including pressure or burden of care, reducing the time for routine activities and self care, also causes compatibility decline in deal with stress and disorders of physical and mental health, emotional, social and financial prosperity of caregivers. The aim of this study was to determine the effect of continuous care model on socia...

Background & Aims: Most parents of children with cancer experience a care burden. Increasing their resilience can help reduce their care burden. This study aims to determine the effect of online resilience educational intervention on the resilience and care burden of parents of children with cancer. Materials & Methods: This is a single-group study with a pre-test/post-test design. Fifty paren...

Objectives: The aim of this study was to investigate the moderating role of resilience in the association between perceived stress and burden of care among elderly caregivers at nursing homes of Tehran in 2016. Methods and Materials: In this cross-sectional, correlational study, the data were collected from 142 caregivers engaged in nursing homes in Tehran of which 50 were men and 92 were wom...

one of the most important goals for increasing recognition and treatment revenue is transmitting vital data to medical care team, more quickly. nowadays, use of new technologies for transmitting data will deploy more and more daily. in this article, for transmitting electrocardiogram, first we code the signal into a suite of codes, then we will use bluetooth technology to transmit data from off...

Background & Aims: Advanced cancer causes problems not only for the patients, but also for their caregivers. The present study aimed to determine the role of religious coping in the prediction of the burden of care in the caregivers of end-stage cancer patients. Materials & Methods: This cross-sectional, correlational study was conducted on 146 cancer caregivers referring to the palliative car...

Background & Aim: Family caregivers are one of the first and most important members involved in the pursuit of treatment and care for the elderly. Attention and care assessment of family caregivers is one of the effective factors in increasing the quality of care for the elderly. The aim of this study was to determine the caregiver burden of elderly caregivers with chronic illnesses in Tehran. ...

Introduction: Elderly patients are the largest and fastest growing group of patients under dialysis and their caregivers are faced with high burden care. Therefore, the present study was conducted to determine the predictors of caregiver burden among caregivers of older patients under hemodialysis residing in Qazvin province, Iran. Materials and Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducte...