objective: in order to empower infertile clients and provide high quality patient-centered infertility care, it is necessary to recognize and meetinfertile clients’ educational needs.this study aimed toexamine infertility clients’ knowledge,and subsequently their education needs given their attitudinal approach to infertility education in infertile clientsundergoing assisted reproduction treatm...

AIM Prevention of hepatitis C (HCV) remains a public health challenge. A new body of work is emerging seeking to explore and exploit "symbiotic goals" of people who inject drugs (PWID). That is, strategies used by PWID to achieve other goals may be doubly useful in facilitating the same behaviours (use of sterile injecting equipment) required to prevent HCV. This project developed and trialled ...

background and objectives: hijama as a form of traditional medicine is used for treatment and prevention of diseases and maintenance of homeostasis. throughout the centuries it has been known as a national, cultural and religious form of therapy among iranian people and also the pillars of islamic practice and tradition. one of the common problems regarding this kind of therapy is that most pat...

background: underutilization of mental health care services has been a challenge for the health care providers for many years. this challenge could be met in part by improving the clients’ readiness to use such services. this study aimed to introduce the important aspects of the clients’ readiness to use mental health services in the iranian context. materials and methods: a thematic analysis o...

Addressing spirituality in therapy is not only important for a substantial number of clients but many therapists also regard it as potentially valuable. However, practitioners report difficulties and confusion regarding how to work with spiritual difference, especially when clients’ spiritual beliefs are perceived as undermining their psychological well-being. The current study aimed to explore...

The adult's perception of infant crying determines whether it is a source of stress and may be an antecedent to physical child abuse. The study had clients listen to infant crying and used stress management training to change their perceived arousal, anxiety, and evaluation of the crying. Fifteen nonparental female clients were randomly assigned to three groups who either had pretraining withou...

Improving HIV testing and counselling (HTC) requires a range of strategies. This article reports on HTC service delivery by Village Health Teams (VHTs) in Uganda in the context of a model integrating this new component into pre-existing family planning services. Eight health centres from matched pairs were randomly allocated to intervention or control. After being trained, 36 VHTs reporting to ...

e-service systems, system integration, system modeling, system analysis and optimization, Communicating Structures Library, services, servers, service partitioning, load balancing, genetic algorithms The report describes a modeling library for analysis and optimization of distributed service systems: enterprise computing infrastructures, E-commerce and E-service systems. The library uses a smal...

OBJECTIVE Artwork and psychiatric disorders are often linked. Accomplished artists with psychiatric disorders express themselves and their emotional distress through their works, and art therapists use the visual arts to help clients understand their problems and cope with them. There have been a number of psychiatric patients with no previous art training who produced artwork that many conside...

medical environments such as hospital waiting rooms can affect a client’s anxiety level as wellas psychological and physiological responses to his or her situation. the aim of this research was to evaluatethe use of environmental design, specifically the design which incorporates elements of nature, in clinics andhospitals to decrease anxiety, blood pressure and pulse rates of waiting clients. ...