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  Background and Objective : Nursing is an extremely stressful profession. Nurses are confronted with a variety of personal, communicational and organizational stresses, which affect on their health and job satisfaction reversely. The purpose of present study is to determine nurse's job stress in therapeutic-educational centers in Zanjan.

  Material and Methods : In this cross sectional descriptive- analytical study 155 nurses of nursing staff of teaching hospitals of Zanjan were selected by stratified random sampling in 2010. The instruments were a demographic data sheet and Toft-Gray and Anderson's nursing stress scale. The Data were analyzed by SPSS-­14.5 software, using descriptive statistics and Spearman & Pearson correlation coefficient.

  Results: The results show that various occupational conditions lead to tensions, high level (57.4%), moderate (40%) and low intention (2.6 %). Based on Spearman, there is a significant relationship between levels of tension and education status (r= 0.192, P= 0.017). Other variables such as age, sex, ward, marital status, shift working, record of services, overtime and number of children show no significant relationship with occupational stress.

  Conclusion: Regarding to the harmful effect of occupational stress on nursing staff, we recommend that the authorities to consider reducing the stressful factors such as dissatisfaction of salary and premium, job overload, ambiguous roles and lack of social support.

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Background and Objective: ‌With increasing older people population, the need to provide health care services in nursing homes is increasing. The aim of this study was to determine the effect of an educational program about the management of common problems in old age on the level of job stress in the caregivers of Golestan province nursing homes.
Material and Methods: This pre-experimental study was conducted on all 24 caregivers (11 males and 13 females) working in the nursing homes of Golestan province. The valid and reliable instruments were a researcher-made questionnaire to evaluate the knowledge and Osipow's job stress questionnaire,‌ the intervention was an educational package to increase their knowledge and skills about the management of old age problems. The questionnaires were completed before, immediately after, one month and three months after the training. The data was analyzed by analysis variance, Pearson correlation, independent t-test and paired t-test.
Results: With increasing the knowledge of the caregivers, a significant reduction in job stress scores (p<0.001) ‌was found after three months. Two components of job stress including overload (p<0.001) and insufficiency (p=0.002) showed significant decreases after three months compared to the mean scores before training.
Conclusion: Due to The effect of training on stress reduction, providing comprehensive training programs for caregivers may lead to higher quality services and health promotion for both elders and their caregivers.

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Background and Objective: One of the environmental factors bringing about chronic stress is something that is related to occupation. Because mental health improvement of a society particularly in a productive group is a necessity for dynamics and progression of a community, we aimed to examine the relationship between occupational stress and mental health in medical emergency's Male staff of Golestan province, 2012-2013.