The way people deal with the stress of life is known as the process of coping or confrontation. We speak of religious coping when a person uses religious belief and behavior to facilitate problem solving, to prevent or alleviate stressful negative emotional consequences, notable among which is functional disability. The objective of this study was to investigate the role of religion as a strate...

Many scholars have theorized a relationship between religious organizations and the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Religious organizations have alternately been identified both as a primary obstacle to AIDS care and HIV prevention, and as potentially effective partners in combating further spread of the disease and treating those presently infected. To date, however, there have been no empirical analyses o...

explanation of the insightful family concept in care of the elderly    pouladi sh [1] , anoosheh m [2] *, kazemnejad a [3] , zareian a [4]     received: 31 may , 2013 accepted: 3 aug , 2013    abstract  background & aims : the elderly care in families with social problems and hardships indicate the insight of family members in elderly care. this study aims to explain the concept of family insig...

The Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TCCC) project begun by the Naval Special Warfare Command and continued by the U.S. Special Operations Command developed a set of tactically appropriate battlefield trauma care guidelines that were initially published in 1996. Transition of these guidelines into use throughout the Department of Defense has been ongoing since that time. The need for updates to t...

BACKGROUND Medical emergency staff complete understanding of the nature of resiliency in burn events is a prerequisite for improving the quality of clinical service delivery in pre-hospital burn events. OBJECTIVES The present study aimed to describe resiliency in view of medical emergency staff in burn events. MATERIALS AND METHODS The present qualitative study was performed using a content...

OBJECTIVES The rising number of people involved in outdoor recreation and tourism in mountain forest and wilderness areas close to urban areas has led to an increase of rescue efforts in the last decades. The study analyzes rescue operations in 2 mountain areas of the Veneto Prealps in Italy. METHODS A retrospective review of search and rescue incident reports for a 20-year period was perform...

Men are typically stronger, riskier, “showier,” and more impulsive than women. According to sexual selection theory, such behaviors may have enhanced reproductive fitness for ancestral human males. However, such behaviors are facultative, and the mechanisms that cause them respond to social and environmental cues that indicate whether outlays of strength, risk-taking, showing off, or impulsivit...

Results from several national studies in the United States suggests that: (1) religious beliefs and practices are highly prevalent; (2) spirituality and religion are statistically and clinically relevant to mental health and symptoms; and (3) many patients have a preference for spiritually integrated care. However, existing protocols that assess for salient religious themes in psychiatric setti...

As nurse researchers, we were studying Iranian nurses’ competencies in spiritual care recently. Using a selfdirected instrument, we surprisingly found that nurses have low acquaintance with the spirituality concept and how to provide spiritual care. Similar to other caring activities and procedures, spiritual care improves people’s spiritual well-being and performance as well as the quality of ...

The three original founding healthcare systems and 10 sponsoring religious institutes of Catholic Health Initiatives (CHI) have developed an unprecedented governance model to support their vision of a national Catholic health ministry in the twenty-first century. The new organization spans 22 states; annual revenues exceed $4.7 billion. Religious institutes choose either active or honorary stat...