BACKGROUND Asthma is the most common, chronic, childhood disease. Its chronic nature and long-term treatment decrease the quality of life of children and significantly affect the family function. This study was conducted to assess the impact of family empowerment on the quality of life of school-aged children with asthma. MATERIALS AND METHODS This was a quasi-experimental study. Forty-five a...

conclusions: family-centered empowerment model, easily adapted to methamphetamine users and their families, leads to improved social supports and qol. results: mean scores of qol and social support dimensions changed significantly in two intervention groups (p < 0.0001), but didn’t change in the control group (p > 0.05). also, there was a positive significant relation (p < 0.05) between total s...

BACKGROUND Family-centered empowerment of drug and stimulant users is an effective program for a better response to treatment, prevention of treatment adverse effects, and promotion quality of life (QoL) and lifestyle in the process of discontinuing drug abuse. OBJECTIVES This study aimed to determine the effects of educational intervention, based on family-centered empowerment and Pender's h...

BACKGROUND Women's empowerment is hypothesized as a predictor of reproductive health outcomes. It is believed that empowered girls and women are more likely to delay marriage, plan their pregnancies, receive prenatal care, and have their childbirth attended by a skilled health provider. The objective of this study was to assess the association between women's empowerment and use of modern contr...

The health of women impacts on the health of the family and society, and so is critical for national development, and this is certainly so in Ghana. As in other cultures, socio-cultural, economic and biological factors impact on the health of Ghanaian women. Specific health interventions have focused on nutrition, reproductive health and family planning. Multi-sectoral approaches to promoting e...

This paper reports on grounded theory findings that are relevant to promoting the mental health and well-being of immigrant women in Canada. The findings illustrate how relationships among settlement factors and dynamics of empowerment had implications for "becoming resilient" as immigrant women and how various health promotion approaches enhanced their well-being. Dimensions of empowerment wer...

Background: Hepatitis C virus infection is a community and pediatric problems, needs for supporting their mothers to decrease strains powering children quality of life. Aim: To examine effect family empowerment nursing intervention on caregivers' health-related quality life children with hepatitis C. Design: A quasi-experimental research design. Setting: The study was carried out at outpati...