abstract background: childhood cancer as a life-threatening illness has negative consequences for both the patients and their family. the aim of this study was to examine the impact of child cancer on their mother's quality of life and to assess the association of quality of life with resilience among mothers of children with cancer. materials and methods: in this cross-sectional study, a total...

background: family caregivers usually report the reduction of their life quality due to one of the family member’s spinal cord injury. thus, the present study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of psycho-educational interventions on the life quality of the family caregivers of the patients with spinal cord injury. methods: the present randomized controlled trial was conducted on 72 family c...

background & aim: chronic diseases impact not only on patients but also on their family members’ lives. this study aims to determine dimensions of family dermatology life quality index (fdlqi) questionnaire by the use of classic and bayesian factor analysis (bfa) factor. methods & materials: in this study, fdlqi questionnaire distributed among 100 family members of dermatological patients. bfa ...

background and purpose: heart disease death rates have increased worldwide.family-oriented empowerment model improves the quality of life in the patients with chronic diseases. this study aims to determine the effect of family-oriented empowerment model on the life quality of the patients undergoing coronary artery bypass graft. methods: a quasi-experimental study was performed on the patients ...

the complex system containing n elements, each having three dependent components are described. the reliability and mean residual life of such systems with intact components at time t are investigated using a trivariate binomial model. considering a farlie-gumbel-morgenstern family, some graphical representations are given.