Unblinded randomized controlled clinical trial to evaluate the effectiveness of an educational program in nursing (educational meetings, home visits, telenursing and a printed book) in the improvement of self-care behaviors in patients with heart failure was evaluated. Thirty-three people participated in the intervention group and thirty in the control group. At the beginning and at the end of ...

BACKGROUND Cardiac self-efficacy is an essential factor in persistence of healthy behaviors in patients with coronary artery disease (CAD). Today, telenursing methods have numerous applications in health care. Therefore, this study aimed to determine the effect of a text message and telephone follow-up program on cardiac self-efficacy of patients with CAD. MATERIALS AND METHODS This was a ran...

In recent years an increased interest emerged to explore the effectiveness of advanced technologies for management of chronic respiratory diseases (1, 2). These interventions may be described as “telehealthcare”, a more comprehensive term that, regardless the specific professional delivering the intervention, includes technologies described so far under various terms such as “telehealth”, “tele...

Unblinded randomized controlled clinical trial to evaluate the effectiveness of an educational program in nursing (educational meetings, home visits, telenursing and a printed book) in the improvement of self-care behaviors in patients with heart failure was evaluated. Thirtythree people participated in the intervention group and thirty in the control group. At the beginning and at the end of t...

Objective: To provide an understanding and summarize the challenge regarding need to be prepared for performing virtual care .Methods: This literature review was conducted through searching 5 databases including ProQuest, Science Direct, PubMed, SAGE, Google Scholar were searched identify relevant articles. The strategy used in that matches topic this uses PICO framework then a carried out usin...