Abstract Background Thalassemia is one of the most common human genetic diseases in the world and it provides many problems for patients, families and health care system. This model helped the family with sick children to empower to face disease and its complications. To reach this aim, the knowledge and attitude of patients and their families about the disease should be increased. This study w...

background: responsibility for diabetes management tasks must shift from caregivers to adolescents as adolescents grow older. also, family-centered care is a way to provide efficient care for them at home. this study aimed to identify the effect of family-centered care on management of blood glucose levels in adolescents with type 1 diabetes mellitus (t1dm). methods: this is a pre-experimental ...

patient-centered communication barriers: experiences of patients with cancer, their family members and nurses rassouli m ,zamanzadeh v ,abbaszadeh a ,nikanafar ar ,alavi-majd h , mirza ahmadi f ,ghahramanian a * received: 28 aug, 2013 accepted: 2 nov, 2013 abstract background & aims: it is suggested that nurses unable to communicate with patients based on the needs and preferences and to indivi...

we report the direct soft chemical synthesis and characterization of a family of face centered cubic (fcc) and partially ordered face centered tetragonal (fct) fept nanoparticles (nps) suitable for biomedical applications. both fcc and partially ordered fct-fept nps are synthesized by employing a simple polyol method. by using polyvinyl pyrolidone (pvp) as a stabilizer in various ratios during ...

OBJECTIVE This comparative study in two ICUs examines the impact of the patient-centered unit design on family involvement, operationalized as percentages of family presence and family-patient/family-staff interaction in patient rooms. BACKGROUND As hospitals have become more patient-centered, there has been a trend toward including a family area inside the patient area to promote family pres...

Addiction and Problematic drug use, led to the physical, psychological, social and family destruction especially clinically significant or serious discomfort. This study aimed to efficacy of spiritual therapy based on family-centered on marriage satisfaction in couples with husbands' drug-dependent. This design was a quasi-experimental. The population consisted all drug-dependent and their wive...