Background: As a chronic disease, heart failure (HF) is a growing problem that not only impacts patients but also their family members and friends. Self-care is the main part of HF treatment. Despite the significance of determining variables involved in self-care, the relationships of self-efficacy, illness perception, and social support with self-care and the predictive roles of these variable...

aim: the aim of this study was to determine the effectiveness of a self-care educational package on patients suffering from hypertension in khatamolanbia hospital of iranshahr. self-care includes a set of healthy behaviors as well as the choice of correct lifestyle, which will prevent from disease and result in effective treatment in case of disease through proper knowledge. since hypertension ...

background: despite the implementation of new training programs, neglecting individual differences in terms of learning styles can be taken into account as one of the reasons for poor levels of self-care behaviors in patients suffering from diabetes. aim: the purpose of the present study was to examine the effect of training according to the learning styles on self-care behaviors among individu...

conclusions lecture and educational package can both improve some dimensions of the qol in patients with hypertension. however, as pamphlets are cheap and easy to use, this method may be used as an effective method for self-care education in health care settings in iran, where the system is faced with nursing shortage. results no significant differences were observed between the three groups fo...

a field study was made to investigate the learning needs of patients with pacemaker in shahid rajaii heart hospital's out-patient clinic (1994). a total of 60 patients with pacemaker were selected sequentially from the total population that had a pacemaker and attended the out-patient clinic in shahid rajaii hospital. the subjects met the criteria for participating in this study. the tool ...