Background: Coronary artery diseases are among the most important causes of disability and coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery is considered as one of the most important methods of treatment. The improvement of post-surgery adherence to treatment plan is one of the main healthcare objectives. Objectives: The present study attempted to determine the effect of family-centered empowerment ...

Background Chronic nature of thalassemia causes changes in different aspects of life in patients, including their self-efficacy. The aim of this study was to determine the effect of family-centered empowerment program on the self-efficacy of adolescents with Thalassemia major. Methods A quasi-experimental study was performed on adolescents with thalassemia major in 2013 in Bandar Abbas, Iran....

BACKGROUND Family-centered empowerment of drug and stimulant users is an effective program for a better response to treatment, prevention of treatment adverse effects, and promotion quality of life (QoL) and lifestyle in the process of discontinuing drug abuse. OBJECTIVES This study aimed to determine the effects of educational intervention, based on family-centered empowerment and Pender's h...

background: adult age is a sensitive period of human life and paying attention to the issues and needs of this stage is a social necessity. regarding the specific needs of this period, considering the empowerment, dignity and self-efficacy in the elders is very important too which is frequently neglected. this study aimed to determine the effect of family-based interventions on the elders’ empo...

Objective: The purpose of this quality improvement project was to empower and activate first-line staff (FLS) to improve the six-month depression remission rate in a primary care clinic. Background: Lack of workforce engagement has been identified as an emerging national problem in health care and health care leaders have urged practice redesign to foster the Triple Aim of improved population h...

Human-centered computation is characterized by at least three features: it must be adaptive, reactive, and it must empower the user to configure and extend the behavior of the systems using her natural modes of interaction. In our previous work we have proposed systems that address the first two features. In this paper we present Alfred – a natural end user programming interface for Intelligent...

We examine the patient networking site PatientsLikeMe relative to current trends in medicine toward patientcentered care and empowerment. We focus on both patient and institutional demands for personal medical data. Given PatientsLikeMe’s mixture of social networking and health management tools, we consider the role of online health communities in the changing patient/provider relationship, and...

BACKGROUND The prioritization of sustainable patient-centered care in contemporary health care has resulted in an increased focus on patient empowerment, which in turn is considered to facilitate patient independence, self-management, and self-efficacy. However, a definitional consensus of empowerment remains elusive, impeding efforts to translate the conceptual ideals of empowerment into a mea...