Background. Recognizing the needs of cancer survivors is one of the important aspects in healthcare delivery. This study aimed to determine the prevalence of unmet supportive care needs and its associated factors among the breast cancer survivors of community-based support group in Kuching, Sarawak. Materials and Methods. This was a cross-sectional study using Supportive Care Needs Survey (SCNS...

BACKGROUND Infant attachment security is a protective factor for future mental health, and may be promoted by individual interventions. Given service demands, it is important to determine if a group-based intervention for parents could be used to enhance infant attachment security. METHODS In a randomized trial involving 76 mothers, an 8-session attachment group called 'Right from the Start' ...

background the main purpose of this study was to identify factors that influence healthcare quality in the iranian context.   methods exploratory in-depth individual and focus group interviews were conducted with 222 healthcare stakeholders including healthcare providers, managers, policy-makers, and payers to identify factors affecting the quality of healthcare services provided in iranian hea...

Learning Communities is one approach in individuals to improve their skills and knowledge. Web based learning communities provide additional capabilities such as global distribution of participants and asynchronous participation. The learning process in such communities is flexible and distributed, but still uni-directional: knowledge, advices and support is transferred from professors to stude...

background: spiritual well-being (swb) of patients with cardiovascular diseases particularly in those admitted in coronary care unit (ccu) is threatened due to disease crisis. therefore, implementing spiritual care is necessary for them. this study aimed to determine the effect of spiritual care program on swb of patients with cardiac ischemia admitted in ccu in al-zahra hospital, isfahan, iran...

Flow experience plays a major role in influencing students’ interest of STEM, which is the key to promote STEM talent development. Various teaching behaviors contribute differently student learning performance and flow experience. Specifically, this research sought concretely explore different influences Autonomy-supportive (AS) behavior Controlling (C) on The conducted an experimental explorat...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To explore the use of routine telephone follow-up as a supportive care strategy for patients with hematologic malignancies from the patients' perspectives. RESEARCH APPROACH A qualitative design based on a series of open-ended interviews and one focus group. SETTING Leukaemia Foundation of Queensland, Australia. PARTICIPANTS 50 participants recruited from the Leukaemia ...

tramadol is used in treatment of moderate to severe pain. nowadays tramadol overdose is one of the common emergencies. naloxone is an antagonist which is used as a first step of treatment in these patients. this study was designed to evaluate the seizurogenic effects of naloxone in tramadol overdose. a number of 124 patients with the diagnosis of tramadol overdose were divided to receive low-do...