patients and methods in this qualitative study, 19 women with breast cancer were interviewed regarding their empowerment needs using the individual open-ended and, in-depth interviews and then the qualitative data were analyzed through content analysis. background due to the increasing number of women suffering from breast cancer worldwide, promoting the empowerment of these patients is an impo...

Stroke and cardiovascular disease are major health problems for African Americans. This article describes challenges, strategies employed, and successes in implementing a combination "faith-based" and "faith-placed" health promotion program called the BLESS Project in a small rural church in North Carolina. The project was implemented by a congregational nurse who teaches nursing at a nearby HB...

e-Health readiness refers to the preparedness of health-care institutions to implement programmes that involve use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in provision and management of health services. Level of readiness depends on a number of factors that lead to success or failure of e-health programmes, and thus increase or decrease hope of achieving the desired results. This repo...

Objective: to identify the factors that promote and threaten Hope in family caregivers of 2- 3-year-old children with chronic conditions. Method: qualitative study 46 between 2 3 years old a condition, discharged from two Neonatal Intensive Care Units. Data was collected through semi-structured interviews guided by Model for Intervention Mutual Help Promoter Hope. were submitted deductive thema...

Abstract Considering that adults with Substance Use Disorder (SUD) experience many barriers and challenges in designing living a satisfactory life, based on Life Design paradigm, this study aimed at analyzing the direct indirect effect of career adaptability, through hope, life satisfaction sample individuals SUD compared to without SUD. In study, 185 was involved different measures assess adap...

New methods of limb lengthening are being adopted in the hope of overcoming the poor osteogenic responses characteristic of distraction. Delay between the osteotomy and starting distraction is said to be important but there is little experimental evidence. We have compared immediate with delayed distraction in the rabbit tibia and shown that delay is an important factor in promoting osteogenesi...

INTRODUCTION Information and communication technologies (ICTs) play a key role in improving health and maintaining health promoting behaviours. ICTs are therefore one potential solution for promoting healthy lifestyles. In addition, they can assist in the reduction and control of the menace of both communicable and non-communicable diseases. This study will map evidence of interventions that de...