conclusions: family-centered empowerment model, easily adapted to methamphetamine users and their families, leads to improved social supports and qol. results: mean scores of qol and social support dimensions changed significantly in two intervention groups (p < 0.0001), but didn’t change in the control group (p > 0.05). also, there was a positive significant relation (p < 0.05) between total s...

Background: Rheumatoid arthritis is the most prevalent chronic rheumatologic disease of children. The quality of life (QOL) in these individuals is affected by physical pain, discomfort, treatment complications, and frequent absences from school leading to academic failure. No research similar to the present investigation was performed in this area. Aim: ...

conclusions since family-centered empowerment interventions can determine the training- and treatment-related needs of patients and are low cost and effective, they may help parents promote their children’s self-efficacy and qol. results the mean age of the children was 10.2 and 10.5 years in the intervention and control groups, respectively. the duration of the disease was five years in both g...

Background: There is a relationship between diseases and the quality of life. Epilepsy is a disease that is unpredictable and uncontrollable and its actions are limited to scattered and brief education. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate the effect of family-centered empowerment program on the quality of life of mothers with epileptic children. Methods:</strong...

We investigated the associations among perceived fidelity to family-centered systems of care, family empowerment, and improvements in children's problem behaviors. Participants included 79 families, interviewed at two time points across a one-year period. Paired samples t-tests indicated that problem behaviors decreased significantly across a one-year period. Hierarchical multiple regressions i...

background: dietary behaviors affect obesity; therefore, it seems necessary to conduct interventions to modify behavioral patterns leading to weight-gain in the family. our goal was to determine the impact of training on women’s capabilities in modifying their obesity-related dietary behaviors in urmia, west azerbaijan province, iran: applying family-centered empowerment model. methods: a quasi...

BACKGROUND The study was conducted to investigate the diet barriers perceived by patients with poorly controlled type 2 diabetes and examine the associations between diet barriers and sociodemographic characteristics, medical condition, and patient-centered variables. METHODS Secondary subgroup analyses were conducted based on the responses of 246 adults with poorly controlled type 2 diabetes...