background : improving quality of life (qol) has been an important consideration in patients with chronic diseases such as cancer particularly in last two decades. praying is a valuable nursing care to improve cancer patients’ qol. however, controversies still exist about the effect of different types of praying. this study was conducted to compare the impact of private and collective praying o...

introduction: cancer patients face psychosocial and physical problems, which may have an impact on the patient’s quality of life (qol). the quality of life is a powerful factor when it comes to the guidance, maintenance and increasing the level of health and culture of communities. no more attention has been paid to qol of patients with cancer in our country.  close relation between medical hea...

　The quality of life (QOL) has been defined as ‘‘a person’s sense of well-being that stems from satisfaction or dissatisfaction with the areas of life that are important to him/her’’. It is generally accepted that pain intensity and duration have a negative impact on the QOL. One specific type of control is “self-efficacy”, or the belief that one has the ability to successfully engage in specif...

Abstract: Introduction: Menopause is an essential part of human life that affects women's quality of life (QOL). Objective: This study investigated the quality of life and some relevant factors in menopausal women. Materials and Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted on 45-60 years old menopausal women in 3 areas of Kashan city, Iran in 2018. By cluster sampling method, 236 partic...

the quality of life (qol) has been de.ned as ‘‘a person’s sense of well-being that stems from satisfaction or dissatisfaction with the areas of life that are important to him/her’’.  age was also signi.cantly associated with several functional limitations such as illness, and physical restrictions. the concept of ‘‘resilience’’ refers to successful adaptation that unfolds within a context of si...

background quality of life (qol) stands for to the general well-being of the populations in the societies. quality of life should not be confused with the concept of standard of living, which is based primarily on income. instead, standard indicators of the qol include not only wealth and employment, but also built environment, physical and mental health, education, recreation and leisure time ...

Background: Treating a chronic disease such as hemophilia is to improve the symptoms and quality of life (QOL) of the patients. This study aimed to study the quality of life among hemophilic children and compare the quality of life between patients receiving prophylactic or on demand treatments. Materials and Methods: In this descriptive-comparative study, we enrolled 60 patients from three ...

background: the current study was conducted to estimate the integrated mean of quality of life (qol) of the general population of different countries around the world and to compare them on the grounds of the human development index (hdi). methods: well-known international databases such as medline, scopus, science direct, google scholar & google, and domestic databases including sid, iranmedex...

background: we aimed to analyze the effect of nursing strategies on patients with chronic renal failure (crf) undergoing maintenance hemodialysis (mhd) treatment by puncturing on arteriovenous fistula (avf). methods: ninety-two patients with chronic renal failure undergoing maintenance hemodialysis (mhd) between jan 2014 and jan 2015 were included in the study (all undergoing avf, dialysis for ...