Background: Patients with coronary heart diseases need knowledge aboutshould know the risk factors of the disease to manage their illnesses. The aim of This study was aimed to investigate the relationship between knowledge about of coronary heart diseases risk factors and health-promoting lifestyle in adults living in Tabriz City.  Methods: This descriptive correlational study was performed co...

background : hope is an important factor in the recovery of cancer patients. few iranian studies investigated the level of hope in cancer patients. therefore, the present study aimed to investigate the level of hope in iranian cancer patients and the related factors. methods : in a descriptive correlational study, 150 cancer patients were selected by a consecutive sampling method. hope in patie...

Studying these exceptional people, however, is fraught with difficulty, controversy and the dangers of promoting bad science. The potential benefits of highlighting the unusual recoveries should be balanced against the risks, experts warn, including offering patients false hope, blaming those who succumb and encouraging alternative treatments in place of conventional methods that could prolong ...

OBJECTIVE Family rituals are associated with adaptive functioning in pediatric illness, including quality of life (QoL). This article explores the role of family cohesion and hope as mediators of this association in children with cancer and their parents. METHODS Portuguese children with cancer (N = 389), on- and off-treatment, and one of their parents completed self-report measures. Structur...

Emotional barriers have been found to play a critical role in forming attitudes and behaviors in conflict and peace-making. A major effect of such affective barriers is cognitive freezing, which reduces openness to new information and opportunities to conflict resolution. In the current research, we examined the hypothesis that hope and fear have opposite effects on information processing in su...

a prior history of healthy lifestyle may be misleading when we consider associated risk factors for developing a serious and debilitating condition such as multiple sclerosis under extreme stress. the author reports a case of a woman who lived a healthy life and yet experienced an unexpected event leading to the diagnosis of multiple sclerosis. the patient’s condition was predominantly provoked...

conclusions performing htp can improve hopefulness and symptoms of patients, specially addicted ones. in addition, it can prevent substance abusers from returning to drugs and leaving the treatment period unfinished. results the results showed that f value of mean scores in depression and hope post-tests of the experimental and control groups are 24.94 and 25.73, respectively, which are signifi...

BACKGROUND Cardiac surgery is a major life event, and outcomes after surgery are associated with men's and women's ability to self-manage and cope with their cardiac condition in everyday life. Hope is suggested to impact cardiac health by having a positive effect on how adults cope with and adapt to illness and recommended lifestyle changes. METHODS We did a secondary analysis of 416 individ...