Background and purpose: Diabetes is the most common metabolic disorder which is caused by defects in insulin secretion, insulin action, or both .The most important factor in managing diabetes is self-care. Since diabetes self-care behaviors are multifactorial and these factors may directly or indirectly affect self-care, it is possible through the application of path analysis to estimate the di...

 As a matter of the fact, patient with a disability and chronic diseases such as heart failure, suffer from many health related problems. Promoting health and quality of life of these patients will be feasible, if they could promote their self care behaviours. In order to assess self care behaviours of these patient and its relationship with quality of life, we conducted a correlationel descrip...

Background and Aim: Diabetic foot ulcer is one of the most painful complications of Diabetes and affects various aspects of a person's life. Therefore, involvement of the patient in self-care can minimize its complications. The purpose of this study was to identify the effective factors in the Diabetic foot self-management for designing a managed-care based app for people with Diabetes who have...

teachers beliefs have usually been left unattended in the realm of educational research in iranian context. one of those beliefs which seems to impact teachers performance in the classroom is their sense of self-efficacy, which refers to teachers belief in their ability to enhance student achievement and in bringing about positive learning outcomes. the present study aimed to investigate the pr...

Background: Patient education as an integral aspect of communication between health care providers and patients plays an important role in patient health management Teach Back (TB) is a method of interactive education. Using the teach-back technique not only improves patient’s knowledge and understanding, but also increases patient’s adherence to disease management. Furthermore, self-...