background: using appropriate coping strategies has a positive influence on moderating mental pressures caused by infertility and the stress during treatment. using these strategies needs personal skills and they could be influenced by individual’s inner psychological and environmental factors. the aim of this study was to assess the relationship between the attitude toward infertility and copi...

Introduction: As beliefs of patients with hypertension can have significant differences among different people, therefore numerous researchers concluded that beliefs associated with adherence to treatment in different populations should be studied by objective methods, and then beneficial interventions should be developed. Hence, the present survey was carried out to test patient's beliefs abou...

Attitude theory has long proposed a mechanism through which antecedents of message elaboration produce attitude strength consequences. However, little direct evidence exists for the intervening process. The proposed thoughtfulness heuristic holds that perceiving that more thought has taken place leads to greater attitude certainty. Two roles were established for this heuristic: first as a media...

The purpose of this study was to explore both the effects of learning WWW and the computer attitudes on technology education programs for elementary students in Taiwan. Both pretest and posttest were conducted in this study. 153 subjects were selected from fifth and sixth grade in Sir-Ko elementary school at Taichung County. The Computer Attitude Scale (CAS) was used to serve as the pretest and...

Empathy plays a central role in social relationships, and lack of empathy has been suggested as part of expressed emotion in the relatives of patients with schizophrenia. The aim of this research is to measure empathy in the relatives of schizophrenia patients and to establish the relationship between lack of empathy and relapse. Eighty schizophrenia patients were followed up in a 2-year prospe...

background and purpose: to create a positive attitude towards communication skills training, experimental methods are preferred over theoretical approaches since they encourage the practical use of these skills among different health staff. this study aimed to compare the effects of role play and video feedback on the attitude and knowledge of midwives towards communication training skills. met...

background: lack of knowledge, attitude and practice are some of the barriers of having a healthy lifestyle and controlling high blood pressure. this study aimed to determine the effectiveness of a lifestyle modification program on knowledge, attitude and practice of hypertensive patients with angioplasty. methods: this study was a randomized controlled clinical trial conducted from november to...

BACKGROUND Mental health has been integrated in the primary health care program in small cities and villages of Iran in a national level since the late 1980s. We performed a systematic review of literature to investigate the effect of education on change in attitude and knowledge of mental health care providers and the population covered in the program during the recent two decades in Iran. M...