Introduction: Health beliefs significantly affect health promoting self-care behaviors. The most important model designed based on health beliefs is the Health Belief Model. This study examined the association between health belief model constructs and demographic factors with behaviors in elderly.  Materials and Methods: This descriptive-analytical study was performed on 465 elders ref...

Introduction: Today self care behaviors education is the base of diabetes treatment and the nurses have been the special position in self care education in diabetic patients. The self care behaviors education history to diabetic patients had been speared changes that in this article we will review it and the nurses position in self care behaviors education to diabetic patients. Methods: This a...

Background: Diabetes is a chronic disease that can cause severe complications such as cardiovascular disease, blindness and kidney failure. Given the importance of self-care in diabetic patients, and considering that inadequate health literacy is a serious barrier for the management of diabetes that can affect patients' participation in self-care, Therefore this study aimed to assess the status...

Background & Objectives: Job strain of nurses always causes impaired self-cars behaviors in nurses’ daily lives. Therefore, this study was performed with the aim of evaluating self-care behaviors in nurses. Materials & Methods: In this cross-sectional study, 100 of nurses of Mazandaran Cardiac Center were selected through available sampling. For the purpose of data collection, a research...

Aims: Hypertension is one of the most common health problems with significant consequences. Management of hypertension is mainly related to self-care status. Health literacy is one of the factors in accessing information related to health and better self-care. Therefore, the aim of the present study was to determine the relationship between health literacy and self-care behaviors of hypertensiv...

Background and purpose: Diabetes is the most common metabolic disease in the world. The most important factor in controlling the disease is self-care. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of some variables on self-care behaviors such as duration of disease, central obesity and diabetes knowledge. Materials and methods: In a cross-sectional study 500 diabetic patients were selec...

Introduction: Social support can be defined as the interactive process through which emotional and instrumental support is obtained. Social support has been found to be a relevant factor in diabetes self-management. Diabetes refers to complex chronic metabolic conditions that are characterized by elevated levels of blood glucose if untreated. Diabetes is one of the biggest health care problems ...

Background and Aims: Patients undergoing hemodialysis are exposed to various physical, psychological, and social stressors. Self-care activities can play a significant role in adapting to the disease process and improving their quality of life. In addition, using the PRECEDE-PROCEDE model, an appropriate scale can be obtained from these patients chr('39')perceptions, knowledge and attitudes tow...