objectives: nurses of mentally disabled adults’ centers are encountered with high pressures and stresses and the objective of this study is the investigation of the relationship between the mental pressure of the nurses of mentally disabled adults’ centers and their job burnout. methods: this study was done on 180 nurses of different shifts of nurses of mentally disabled adults’ centers of mash...

Objectives: Nurses of mentally disabled adults’ centers are encountered with high pressures and stresses and the objective of this study is the investigation of the relationship between the mental pressure of the nurses of mentally disabled adults’ centers and their job burnout. Methods: This study was done on 180 nurses of different shifts of Nurses of mentally disabled adults’ centers of M...

Every day, the healthcare workers encounter the patients having special needs and requiring increased health and nursing care. These patients include those suffering mental illnesses, the number of which continues to grow at present. Mental illnesses, especially psychosis, affects the perception of reality, reduces the patients ́ life quality and, in some cases, they even lead to suicides. Excep...

Taiwan has provided free health checks for adults since 1995. However, very little previous research has explored the use of preventive health services by physically and mentally disabled adults. The present study aimed to understand this use of preventive health services and the factors that influence it. Research participants included disabled people registered in a Ministry of the Interior d...

Three million persons under age 65 are entitled to Medicare because of disability. This study examines their Medicare use and mortality. Disabled enrollees had higher health care use and mortality than comparison groups of Medicare's aged enrollees or of the general population under age 65. One type of disabled enrollee, adults disabled as children (over one-half of whom are mentally retarded) ...

background: we aimed to determine the status of strongyloidiasis in mentally disabled population in the institutional places in rasht city, the capital of guilan province, northern iran. methods: this cross-sectional study was conducted in 8 institutions for mentally retarded population in rasht in 2013. before collecting the samples, a questionnaire was filled out for each participant by an ex...

OBJECTIVE To compare the prevalence of psychiatric morbidity among mothers of mentally disabled children and mothers of non-disabled children, and to identify the determinants associated with psychiatric morbidity. METHODS A comparative cross-sectional study was conducted in Qatar from January to June 2005 to compare the prevalence psychiatric morbidity by using the General Health Questionnai...

PURPOSE Mentally disabled patients show different recovery profiles compared to normal patients after general anesthesia. However, the relationship of dose-recovery profiles of mentally disabled patients has never been compared to that of normal patients. MATERIALS AND METHODS Twenty patients (10 mentally disabled patients and 10 mentally intact patients) scheduled to dental surgery under gen...

Objectives: The birth and presence of an exceptional child in a family can be considered as an undesirable challenging event. This event may be associated with stress, frustration, sadness, and despair. This study aimed to examine the relationship of religious coping styles with general health and psychological well-being among mothers of mentally disabled children. Methods: This cross-section...