background: culturally specific care requires that nursing students know, understand, and identify cultural factors related to client care, and conduct their nursing practice accordingly. the aim of this study was to identify the cultural self-efficacy of baccalaureate nursing students in a greek university. materials and methods: in this cross-sectional study, a transcultural self-efficacy too...

Abstract International conservation presents a unique challenge for American agencies, demanding policy tools. To encourage citizens to support overseas conservation, the Fish and Wildlife Service, United States Postal environmental non-governmental organizations collaborated create Save Vanishing Species Stamp, semipostal stamp featuring tiger. In doing this, these actors relied on flagship sp...

aim and background: this study seeks the effect of teaching problem solving on self-efficacy and perceived self-efficacy in adolescents.   methods and materials: in this quasi-experimental study using three group with pre-test and post-test, on hundred sixty students were randomly selected via multi-stage sampling, and were divided into 64 students of experimental group and 62 students of place...

Multiple sclerosis is a heterogenous disease. Although several EMA-approved disease-modifying treatments including biopharmaceuticals are available, their efficacy is limited, and a certain percentage of patients are always nonresponsive. Drug efficacy monitoring is an important tool to identify these nonresponsive patients early on. Currently, detection of antidrug antibodies and quantificatio...

Evaluation of the communicative efficacy of a website is important in the context of an organization communication strategy. To address this issue, we propose a systematic method and a tool that supports it. The tool is based on a general-purpose semantic annotation framework. The application and feasibility of the method are introduced through a case study where it was used to compare the comm...

  Background: Self-care is an essential element in treating a person with diabetes; and managing diabetes is of prime importance. The aim of this study was to investigate the predictors of adherence to self-care behavior among women with Type 2 diabetes.   Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted on 210 female patients aged 30 to 60. Data collection tool was an anonym...

background: accidents are the first cause of death in children under 5- year, especially in low- and middle-income countries. the aim of this study was to identify the determinants of prevention behavior of domestic accidents in mothers of children fewer than 5 years old based on protection motivation theory )pmt(. materials and methods: in this cross-sectional descriptive-analytic study, 190 m...