background: vegetative state (vs) occurs through return of the brain stem after coma state. after hospital discharge, responsibility of caring for vs patients is transferred to their families, which causes a high burden on them. nurses have an important role in helping the family caregivers to meet their needs and cope with difficulties. to explore the role of nurses during coping process of fa...

background: population aging has social, economic and political consequences. most family caregivers prefer to care for their family member older person with chronic disease at home. despite traditional culture within iranian families, in some cases, hospitalization of the elderly in nursing home is inevitable, and this affects the old person and his/her family. the aim of this study was to exp...

a bstra ct background: the family caregivers of the people with cancer such as breast cancer experience a decrease in their quality of life and an increase of their caring burden. in most of the cases, the researchers consider the quality of life and physical and psychological problems in patients with cancer and pay less attention to the family caregivers. to reduce the caring burden imposed t...

Background: Providing care to a disable relative at home exposesthe caregiver to a potentially higher risk of physical and mentalproblems. We measured health-related quality of life (HRQOL) andits determinants among the caregivers of the Iranian survivors of theIran-Iraq war (1980–1988) with bilateral lower-limb amputation.Methods: Data were collected from 464 individuals comprisingwar-related ...

background:living with patients of chronic diseases such as heart failure (hf) is a difficult situation for the caregivers. this study explored the iranian family caregivers’ burden of caregiving for patients with hf. materials and methods: eighteen family caregivers of the hf patients from two governmental medical training centers in isfahan, iran were recruited using purposive sampling. data ...

objectives: one of the principle of mental health programs is burden and coping of caregivers of chronically mental disorders patients. in this regard, the aim of present study was to measure the amount of burden and relationship between burden and their coping strategies of caregivers. methods: one hundred of main caregivers of patients (50 schizophrenic patients, 50 bipolar patients) from bot...

Introduction: The diagnosis of cancer involves the patients, their caregivers, and families. Caregivers should obtain guidance from health care professionals to promote care facilities. The current study aimed at investigating the economic, socio-individual, informational, and psycho-spiritual problems of caregivers in post-treatment phase of breast cancer. Methods: The present descriptive stu...