Patients with chronic conditions make day-to-day decisions about--self-manage--their illnesses. This reality introduces a new chronic disease paradigm: the patient-professional partnership, involving collaborative care and self-management education. Self-management education complements traditional patient education in supporting patients to live the best possible quality of life with their chr...

AbstractDoes the modern self still need self-care? Pierre Hadot, Michel Foucault and others suggested that self-care mostly disappeared with advent of modernity. How this happened, or whether instead took on new forms, is not well understood. This article examines Renaissance appropriation concept a “culture soul” (cultura animi) as marker for how was adapted to After detailing Cicero used cult...

background: using care models provide a common method between teachers, students and nurses, which brings together education, services and research. orem's model of self-care has been widely studied and is globally applied in the modern nursing. this study is aimed to determine efficiency of orem's model of self-care in the recovery of patients with heart failure. methods: this is a semi-experi...

BACKGROUND The burden of cardiovascular disease as a chronic illness increasingly requires patients to assume more responsibility for their self-management. Patient education is believed to be an essential component of cardiovascular care; however, there is limited evidence about specific therapeutic patient education approaches used and the impact on patient self-management outcomes. METHODS...

conclusions based on our findings, it is crucial to implement well-designed educational programs to improve hypertension self-care behaviors. background an assessment of an individual’s hypertension self-care behavior may provide clinicians and practitioners with important information regarding how to better control hypertension. objectives the objective of this study was to investigate the sel...

Introduction: The diseases and problems due to ageing can affect the quality of life (QoL) in the elderly. The aim of this study was to compare the effects of self-care program education run by health volunteers and healthcare staff on the QoL in the elderly. Methods: In this experimental, field trial study, 150 elderly people living in Mashhad were enrolled by multistage sampling in 2014....

OBJECTIVE To measure patient activation and its relationship to glycemic control among adults with type 2 diabetes who had not participated in a formal diabetes self-management education program as a baseline assessment for tailoring diabetes education in a primary care setting. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS Patient activation was assessed in a stratified, cross-sectional study of adults with c...

BACKGROUND Heart failure self-care requires confidence in one's ability and motivation to perform a recommended behavior. Most self-care occurs within a family context, yet little is known about the influence of family on heart failure self-care or motivating factors. AIMS To examine the association of family functioning and the self-care antecedents of confidence and motivation among heart f...