This study qualitatively examined an 8-week group exercise and counseling intervention for breast and prostate cancer survivors. Groups exercised 3 days per week, 50 minutes per session, performing moderate-intensity aerobic and resistance training. Groups also underwent 90-minute supportive group psychotherapy sessions once per week. Survivors discussed their experiences in focus groups post i...

Background Supportive supervision is a way to foster performance, productivity, motivation, and retention of health workforce. Nevertheless there is a dearth of evidence of the impact and acceptability of supportive supervision in low- and middle-income countries. This article describes a participatory process of transforming the supervisory practice of district health managers to create a supp...

well established in the literature, very few studies have attempted to train teachers to offer a greater autonomy support to their students. In fact, none of these studies has been carried out in physical education (PE). The purpose of this study is to test the effects of an autonomy-supportive training on overt behaviours of teaching among PE teachers. The experimental group included two PE te...

background & aim :lack of adherence to prescribed medication is a main concern in medicine especially in chronic diseases. the aim of present study was to determine the effect of supportive text message on the adherence to treatment of depression. methods & materials : this quasi-experimental study was conducted on sixty eligible patients with diagnosis of depression who referred to a psychiatr...

Delivery is considered as one of the most painful experiences of women's life. The present study aimed to compare the effects of supportive care and acupressure on the pregnant women's pain intensity and delivery outcome. In this experimental study, 150 pregnant women were randomly divided into supportive care, acupressure, and control groups. The intensity of pain was measured using Visual Ana...

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This study was performed to investigate the efficacy supportive psychotherapy group training on life expectancy in gastrointestinal cancer patients in Delfan city, Iran. For this purpose, the statistic population were included all patients with gastrointestinal cancer who were referred to treatment and health centers in Delfan city. The present experiment was randomly conducted on 40 individual...