Rasoul Heshmati; Mahasti Alizadeh; Solmaz Javadpour; Nilufar Alizada
Volume 22, Issue 12 , 2020
Abstract
Background: Patients with heart failure need to be engaged in adequate cardiac self-care behaviors helping to prevent the development of the disease and ameliorate their health status. However, the conceptual model of the present study has not been tested in previous studies among patients with heart ...
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Background: Patients with heart failure need to be engaged in adequate cardiac self-care behaviors helping to prevent the development of the disease and ameliorate their health status. However, the conceptual model of the present study has not been tested in previous studies among patients with heart failure.
Objectives: The present study aimed to investigate the psychosocial determinants based on Penders health promotion model (HPM) affecting self-care behavior among outpatients suffering from heart failure.
Methods: In this cross-sectional study, a total of 200 patients suffering from heart failure were selected from the outpatient clinics of Tabriz, Iran, using convenience sampling and assessed for self-self-care behaviors and major concepts of HPM via self-administered questionnaires. Path analysis was used in order to analyze the conceptual model
Results: The present hypothetical model showed a good fit. Perceived benefits and activity-related effects directly affected self-care behaviors. Bootstrapping mediation analyses indicated that perceived self-efficacy, perceived barriers, perceived benefits, and activity-related effects indirectly affected self-care behaviors through commitment to action.
Conclusions: The commitment to action can help to promote self-care behaviors among the subjects suffering from heart failure. The interventions should take the role of predictive variables of this study and commitment to action into account in these patients.
Leila Valizadeh; Mahasti Alizadeh; Mohammad Asghari Jafarabadi; Parvaneh Aghajari; Zeynab Mousarrezaei
Volume 19, Issue 3 , March 2017, , Pages 1-8
Abstract
Background: Sleep-deprivation in children decreases the quality of life and endangers health. Increasing mother’s level of awareness can help improve the children’s sleep schedule and avoid many associated problems.Objectives: This study aimed to investigate the effect of SMS-based education ...
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Background: Sleep-deprivation in children decreases the quality of life and endangers health. Increasing mother’s level of awareness can help improve the children’s sleep schedule and avoid many associated problems.Objectives: This study aimed to investigate the effect of SMS-based education on the level of sleep knowledge in mothers with 7 - 12 years old children.Methods: In this single-blind randomized controlled trial, 13 governmental primary schools in Tabriz (Iran) in 2016 (7 girls’ schools and 6 boys’ schools) were randomly selected among the primary schools, using cluster sampling approach. Then, the mothers of sleep-deprived students were randomly divided into intervention and control groups by using RAS. Both of the groups took a pretest on sleep knowledge by PSKI and then, mothers in the intervention group received education through sending SMS. Finally, all of the participants took again the posttest in two time intervals including a week and three months after the intervention. A number of 92 mothers (experiment = 47, control = 45) completed all of the three phases of the research and the data were analyzed using SPSS ver13.Results: The results showed that the difference between the scores obtained in the first and the second measurements of sleep knowledge in the experimental group was significantly different from that of the control group [mean between-group difference of 5.98 within 95% CI of 3.56 to 8.41 (P < 0.001)]. The difference of sleep knowledge scores between the third and first measurements in the experimental group was also significantly different from that of the control group [mean between-group difference of 4.09 within 95% CI of 1.44 to 6.74 (P < 0.003)].Conclusions: The use of SMS-based education is a constant and efficient educational approach for increasing mothers’ level of knowledge about children’s sleep health.
