BACKGROUND Schizophrenia is a debilitating psychotic disorder that affects patients' personality, career-related and social functioning. Patients stop medications after discharge or inpatient care, when they feel relatively recovered. Most patients do not know that they are sick and they need medication for recovery due to lack of information and cognitive impairment, which makes them incompete...

conclusions the effectiveness of nursing education on self-care behaviour of hf patients was clearly demonstrated. methodological differences in development and implementation of education programs, made the comparison between the results of the studies difficult. results the findings of the reviewed studies showed that self-care behaviour of patients who received nursing education improved sig...

background chronic heart failure (chf) is associated with unpredictably increased prevalence of hospital admissions. self-care is one of the most important aspects of management for patients with chf. self-care adequacy has led to increased satisfaction, independence in daily activities, reduced stress, and morbidity. objectives we aimed to assess the relationship between self-care behavior and...

Background: Self-care in patients with hypertension can be improved through education and implementation of learning theories. Aim: The present study aimed to determine the effect of educating self-care in patients with hypertension through the implementation of Bandura’s self-efficacy model. Method: A randomized controlled clinical...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to develop a heart health diary to promote self-care ability among patients with heart failure (HF), and to identify the diary's effect on self-care adherence, self-efficacy, and physical activity. METHODS A randomized control-group pretestposttest design was adopted using block randomization. A calender-typed health diary was developed and it included a ...

Education is needed for enhanced capacity of acute hospitals to provide dementia care. A nonrandomized controlled, repeated-measures design was used to evaluate a dementia education program delivered to an intervention group (IG, n = 468), compared to a wait-listed group (n = 277), representing separate sites of a multisite hospital. Participants completed self-efficacy for dementia and satisfa...

background: using care models provide a common method between teachers, students and nurses, which brings together education, services and research. orem's model of self-care has been widely studied and is globally applied in the modern nursing. this study is aimed to determine efficiency of orem's model of self-care in the recovery of patients with heart failure. methods: this is a semi-experi...

Question: What are the comparative effects of telephonebased self-management support, health education materials (attention control), or usual care for primary care patients with hip or knee osteoarthritis (OA)? Design: A randomised clinical trial with equal assignment to three intervention groups. Setting: Primary care clinic, USA. Participants: Men and women with a physician diagnosis of hip ...