BACKGROUND Ethical conflicts, often leading to poor teamwork and moral distress, are very challenging to patients, patients' families, and health care providers. A proactive approach to ethical conflicts may improve patient care outcomes. OBJECTIVES To examine acceptability and feasibility of an ethics screening and early intervention tool for use by nurses caring for critically ill patients....

background:  pregnancy in a woman's life is a unique experience. but due to high risk pregnancy and the need to rest in bed, the women and her family are faced with different challenges and needs. the inability to manage these needs will result in crisis and understanding the needs of pregnant women during bed rest is essential to provide comprehensive health care for them. so this qualita...

in this paper after a general literature review on the concept of efficient frontier (ef), an important inadequacy of the variance based models for deriving efs and the high necessity for applying another risk measure is exemplified. in this regard for this study the risk measure of lower partial moment of the first order is decided to replace variance. because of the particular shape of the pr...

relapse prevention(rp)is an important component of alcoholism treatment. the rp model proposed by marlatt and gordon suggests that both immediate determinants (e.g.,high- risk situations, coping skills, outcome expectancies, and the abstinence violation effect) and covert antecedents (e.g., lifestyle factor and urges and cravings) can contribute to relapse.the rp model also incorporates numerou...

background: transition into parenthood is a major developmental life event and is very significant because development in infanthood is affected by the transition process of mothers parenting an infant. this study aimed to develop the assessment tool for transition process of high risk infant’s caregiver in korea. methods: the participants were 246 mothers of premature infant born with gestatio...

objective: inventory drug-taking situations (idts) is a universal instrument used to determine high-risk situations resulting in drug abuse. the aim of this study was to translate this questionnaire to farsi, and to assess its validity and reliability by applying it to iranian drug users. methods: as a psychometric study, 300 drug users participated in a treatment program in national center of ...

conclusions the prevalence of high-risk behaviors among street children in southeast iran is almost high. in this regard, street vendors and children who their parents are illiterate or have been separated are more at risk. generally, principal organizing these children and family education could decline their problems. however, these actions need intersectoral collaboration in society. backgro...

Background: Among different factors, self-efficacy is one of the most suitable components for predicting smoking behavior among adolescents. Therefore, it is essential to design a native tool to measure this high-risk behavior in adolescents and implement prevention programs in this age group. Aim: This study aimed to design and validate a smoking abstine...