conclusions it is suggested that for addiction rehabilitation and relapse prevention, health practitioners should not only provide an intervention program to their patients, but they should design a program for families to participate in the treatment as well so that patients can function at a higher level of wellness. therefore, the family participation program should be reinforced as part of ...

introduction: autism spectrum disorders (asd) belong to the pervasive neurodevelopmental disorders. the prevalence of asd has increased significantly throughout recent decades, bringing the overall estimated prevalence to 11.3 per 1000 children. asd is characterized by severe difficulties in reciprocal social interaction, stereotyped patterns of behavior and profound impairments in verbal and n...

background: we aimed to observe the effect of holistic nursing on patients undergoing hematodialysis for uremia who simultaneously were suffering from moderate to severe malnutrition. methods: eighty patients with uremia on maintenance hematodialysis with malnutrition between june 2014 and june 2015 from yantaishan hospital, yantai, shandong, china were included and equally and randomly were di...

Teaching nursing students a holistic approach to patient care and integrating treatment modalities is crucial component of traditional education. This study aims investigate the educational competency student nurses in by employing descriptive comparative design among 209 from University Hail, Kingdom Saudi Arabia. Results showed that perceived they have been skillful following; professional, l...

Healthcare professionals and patients realize that healthcare is forever changing. Yet 1 thing remains constant: Nursing leaders are driven to perform effectively, economically, and efficiently while being highly invested in human caring. Doing the right intervention at the right time for the patient, their families, and communities continues to inspire us. No wonder the annual Gallup survey on...

The purpose of this study was to describe the experience that holistic nurses have in incorporating complementary and alternative modalities in the care of their clients, as well as gain a deeper understanding of holistic nurses and the perceived benefit of utilizing a holistic modality with their clients and themselves concurrently as providers of these modalities. Purposeful samplings of holi...

A hyperproperty is a set of sets of finite or infinite traces over some fixed alphabet and can be seen as a very generic system specification. In this work, we define the notions of holistic and incremental hyperproperties. Systems specified holistically tend to be more intuitive but difficult to reason about, whereas incremental specifications have a straightforward verification approach. Sinc...

Holistic processing (i.e., the tendency to process objects as wholes) is associated with face perception and also with expertise individuating novel objects. Surprisingly, recent work also reveals holistic effects in novice observers. It is unclear whether the same mechanisms support holistic effects in experts and in novices. In the present study, we measured holistic processing of music seque...

Objective. The objective of this study was to investigate the effect of a holistic intraoral appliance (OA) on cervical spine alignment and subjective symptom severity. Design. An observational study on case series with holistic OA therapy. Setting. An outpatient clinic for holistic temporomandibular joint (TMJ) therapy under the supervision of the Pain Center, CHA Biomedical center, CHA Univer...