objectives this study aimed to examine the effect of a hospital-based educational program based on the constructs of the health belief model (hbm) on self-care behaviors of patients with hf. methods this controlled quasi-experimental study consisted of 84 patients with hf (42 patients in an intervention group and 42 in a control group) who were admitted to two large, specialized, referral hospi...

an explanatory study was conducted to investigate the nursing care provided to patients with toxemia of pregnancy hospitalized in the medical sciences university hospitals gynecology wards in tehran.   a tot al of 65 patients with toxemia hospitalized in gynecologic wards in 14 hospitals supervised by tehran,   shahid beheshti and iran universities were selected.   the data were gathered upon r...

background: consumer satisfaction is recognized as an important parameter for assessing the quality of patient care services. materials and methods: by using quota sampling method and questionnaire device, 392 mothers were selected who had been hospitalized for cesarean section in the public and private hospitals of tabriz. statistical package for social sciences (spss) version 13, descriptive ...

background posttraumatic stress disorder (ptsd) is a severe anxiety disorder occurred due to past adverse experiences. several researches have demonstrated that ptsd is quite common among patients discharged from critical care unit. conclusions prevalence of ptsd is high among patients discharged from icus and some medical individual factors such as elderly, unemployed, being single, using mech...

background: improving patient safety is a priority of the international common. patient safety is a critical component to the quality of health care. the aim of this study was to assess patient safety culture among employees of health care providers, hospitals in tehran. methods: the survey was a cross-sectional study was done in 2010. data were collected from all the staff groups in hospitals ...

objectives this study aimed to understand the patients’ experience of tuberculosis treatment according to dots in iran. patients and methods this study is a qualitative study, using content analysis to examine patients’ experience of tb treatment and to understand their compliance during dots. in this study, a semi-structured interview with open questions was answered by 40 patients, who had a ...