abstract background: the family of cancer patients experience burden of care because of their caring role. therefore, appropriate and effective interventions are essential in order to decrease burden. the goal of the present research was to determine the effect of a family need–based program on the burden of care in caregivers of leukemia patients. materials and methods: in this clinical resear...

OBJECTIVE To compare the effects of a coverage expansion versus a Medicaid physician fee increase on children's utilization of physician services. PRIMARY DATA SOURCE: National Health Interview Survey (1997-2009). STUDY DESIGN We use the Children's Health Insurance Program, enacted in 1997, as a natural experiment, and we performed a panel data regression analysis using the state-year as the ...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The Future of Family Medicine project concluded that research must become a greater part of the culture of the specialty. We examined the participation of family physician residency faculty in research, their protected time, and their research output and how these varied by program type. METHODS This was a cross-sectional survey of all family medicine residency progr...

The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of a nutrition-education program provided by a physician nutrition specialist in a family-practice residency program on residents' and faculty members' nutrition knowledge and nutrition-related patient care, their patients' perceptions of the importance of nutrition, and the physicians' dietary patterns. The nutrition specialist provided re...

objectives: in this research we evaluate an individually family-based dohsa exercise programme of balance in the aged people and its effect on self confidence for performing common daily tasks with less falling could be influenced by training. methods: from a residential care center, five aged person were participated in this study. they were trained by dohsa method for six weeks. two types of ...

Research has shown that access to an asthma specialist improves asthma outcomes. We hypothesized that we could improve access to expert asthma care through a telemedicine link between an asthma specialist and a school-based asthma program. We conducted a prospective cohort study in 3 urban schools to ascertain the feasibility of using an asthma-focused telemedicine solution. Each subject was se...

despite the relative success of the health system and the promotion of health indicators over the last two decades, iran's health system still faces serious problems. one of the most important of them, is the inequity in access to health. theoretical studies and empirical evidences indicate that implementation of the referral system and family physician plan, is one of the main strategies ...

PROBLEM BEING ADDRESSED Canadian family physicians serve a patient population that is increasingly diverse, both culturally and linguistically. Family medicine needs to take a leadership role in developing social accountability and cultural sensitivity among physicians. OBJECTIVE OF PROGRAM To train medical students to work with newly arriving refugees, to foster competence in handling cultur...

The Department of Family Medicine at Queen's University in Kingston, Ont., recently undertook a pilot project to familiarize residents in family medicine with physician-related health policy issues. The objective of the project was to ease the residents' transition into practice and to equip them to participate effectively in future policy debates. All first-year residents assigned to a 4-month...