background and aim: approaches to professional health care have changed along with changes in health measures and progression of chronic diseases. patient participation is an international golden standard in new nursing paradigm. despite the importance of patient participation and its routine usage in professional care, this concept is not clear, especially in social and cultural context of ira...

The aims of this study were to (a) describe the nature of patients' goals upon discharge from hospital, family caregivers' goals for their loved ones, and family caregivers' goals for themselves; (b) determine the degree of concordance with respect to the three elicited goals; (c) ascertain goal attainment across the three elicited goals; and (d) examine factors predictive of goal attainment. O...

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa microsoftinternetexplorer4 crisis in family members of patients in intensive care unit following hospitalization make new needs for them. if these needs unmet, they will experience many stress and anxiety and their ability in coping would be decreased. this was a review article study. scientific database were searched and surveyed for collecting pap...