BACKGROUND Many diagnostic and treatment procedures are done in hospitals and clinics. Offering services in these areas have a prominent role in promoting patients' satisfaction levels and their prospective about health services. OBJECTIVES This study is going to assess the satisfaction levels of patients referring to the six military hospital clinics in Iran. MATERIALS AND METHODS In this ...

BACKGROUND Quality of life (QoL) has gained increasing attention as a desired outcome of psychosocial treatments targeting psychotic patients. Yet, the relationship between the patients' satisfaction with services and QoL has not been clearly established, perhaps due to the multidimensionality of the QoL concept and the variability in its assessment. AIM This is the first systematic meta-anal...

Tourette syndrome (TS) is characterized by chronic motor and vocal tics. Habit reversal therapy (HR) is a behavioral treatment for tics which has received recent empirical support. The present study compared the efficacy of HRT in reducing tics, improving life-satisfaction and psychosocial functioning in comparison with supportive psychotherapy (SP) in outpatients with TS. In addition, we inves...

This research examined life satisfaction, depressive symptoms and perceived social support in two groups of adults (N = 120; age 40-89 years). The first was formed by stable heart failure (HF) outpatients and the second was a control group of similar age. Perceived social support was the only significant predictor of life satisfaction in the control group but, in the HF group, life satisfaction...

PURPOSE To determine the level of treatment-related decisional conflict in patients with emotional disorders and to establish its relationship with sociodemographic and clinical variables. METHODS We conducted a cross-sectional survey on a convenience sample of 321 consecutive psychiatric outpatients with emotional disorders. All patients completed self-report questionnaires assessing sociode...

This study aims to reveal the influence between CRM, SST, customer satisfaction and loyalty variables with mediation of patient in outpatients Indriati Boyolali Hospital. research used a quantitative descriptive approach—data collection using questionnaires, observations documentation. The location was Hospital which is located at Jl. Raya Boyolali-Semarang No.KM. 02, Mojosngopermai, Mojosongo,...

This study assessed the relationship between self-perceived clinical and social needs and aggressive behavior in outpatients with schizophrenia. A total of 895 outpatients with schizophrenia were enrolled. The presence of aggressive episodes was assessed using the Modified Overt Aggression Scale. Self-perceived needs were assessed using the Camberwell Assessment of Need in six areas of needs (f...