background and purpose: research self-efficacy is an important subject in university education. research is considered essential to the development of societies. as such, postgraduate students require research courses in their curricula in addition to regular educational contents. materials and methods: this descriptive, cross-sectional study was conducted on two groups of postgraduate students...

Background:Anxiety is one of the most common problems in patient with cancer that could be increased by chemotherapy and its side effects. Group education despite having many advantages is less used in these patients due to their desire for not being in the group. Aim: To compare the effect of individual and group self-care education on the anxiety in patients receiving chemotherapy in Omid Hos...

background: the prevalence and complications of type2 diabetes showed that traditional educations are not effective. in this trial, we evaluated the effect of electronic self-care education and continue case in compare to the traditional training methods on the practice and fasting blood sugar of diabetic patients. methods: 170 type 2 diabetic patients were randomly allocated into two groups an...

introduction: the diseases and problems due to ageing can affect the quality of life (qol) in the elderly. the aim of this study was to compare the effects of self-care program education run by health volunteers and healthcare staff on the qol in the elderly. methods: in this experimental, field trial study, 150 elderly people living in mashhad were enrolled by multistage sampling in 2014. the ...

conclusions our results show that the self-management angina plan was effective in improving perception of qol and reducing anxiety. further studies with a larger sample size and a longer follow-up period are recommended to better understand the effectiveness of this plan. background coronary artery diseases are the most frequent cause of mortality in industrialized countries as well as iran. c...

objectives this study aimed to examine the effect of a hospital-based educational program based on the constructs of the health belief model (hbm) on self-care behaviors of patients with hf. methods this controlled quasi-experimental study consisted of 84 patients with hf (42 patients in an intervention group and 42 in a control group) who were admitted to two large, specialized, referral hospi...

Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is a chronic non- traumatic neurotic inflammatory disease that affects the quality of life and has physical, psychological, social, and social impairment. MS affects all economic, social and emotional aspects of the individuals, families and society, thus only medication therapy and control of the course of these patients are not enough. Self- care is taken to increase a...

conclusions educating health promotion strategies was effective in improving self-care self-efficacy in patients undergoing kidney transplantation. establishment of a holistic caring program is suggested to integrate the pre-transplantation educations with a continual post discharge follow-up. results in the intervention group, the mean of total self-care self-efficacy was 106.96 ± 25.1 at firs...