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Volume 7, Issue 1 (8-2010)
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Background and Objective: Nurses and nursing students, as a member of psychiatric team, have not enough incentive for caring mental disorders. Because of some negative stereotypic beliefs and anxiety, they neglect some aspects of psychiatric care. We decided to study on nursing students’ anxiety in facing with mentally ill patients.
Material and Methods: In this descriptive study, 64 nursing students of Golestan University of Medical Sciences were selected via convenience sampling. The instruments were demographic information data sheet and interpersonal anxiety scale. We used Descriptive statistics, Spearman correlation coefficient, Mann-Whitney and Kruskal-Wallis tests to analyze the data (spss 16).
Results: The students aged 43.20±5.1 were female (56.8%) and male (43.20%). Anxiety level in 17.9% of participants were severe and in 48.1% of them moderate (P<0.05). There is significant difference between male and female’s anxiety. Students with clinical experience of being in psychiatric ward have the lower level of anxiety (P<0.05).
Conclusion: The Student’s anxiety in facing with mentally ill patients is considerable and we should alleviate this anxiety by some programmed actions such as frequently presenting in psychiatric wards and by special education.
Mr Ghanbar Rouhi, Mr Hamid Asayesh, Mr Hossein Rahmani, Mr Ali Akbar Abdollahi,
Volume 7, Issue 2 (11-2010)
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Background and Objective : Human resources are the most valuable sources of an organization. Nurses, because of special nature of their job, are influenced by various stressors affecting on their job satisfaction and organizational commitment. The aim of this study was to compare Nurses’ job satisfaction and their organizational commitment in intensive care and general wards of Golestan University of medical sciences.
Material and Methods: In this descriptive & analytical study, 389 Nurses were selected via census sampling in 1387. The instrument were job satisfaction questionnaire reliabled by alpha chronbach and meyer organizational commitment scale.To analyze the data, we used Pearson correlation coefficient, independent test, regression and one way anova in spss 16 soft ware environment.
Results: Participants were between 22-55 years. Their mean age was 32.6 ± 7.4 and most of them (72.7%) were female. Intensive care and emergency wards’ Nurses had the lowest organizational commitment and job satisfaction, respectively. There was a significant relationship between job satisfaction and organizational commitment in studied wards (P<0.05).
Conclusion : Whereas job satisfaction can predict organizational commitment of Nurses, it is essential for administrators to consider factors such as salary, participation in decision making, job security, and job enrichment and so on to promote quality of services
Mis Tahmineh Salehian, Mis Faranak Safdari Dah Cheshmeh, Mis Arezoo Pirak,
Volume 7, Issue 2 (11-2010)
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Background and Objective : Patients’ satisfaction is an important criterion which can be a good scale to measure and evaluate medical services quality, and can give us some information about fulfillment of patients’ needs expectations and wishes .We conducted this study to investigate the patients’ satisfaction from medical and nursing services.
Material and Methods: In this descriptive and cross- sectional study, the data was collected by a questionnaire including two sections of demographic data and satisfaction level from medical and Nursing services.The subjects are 200 patients selected by easy sampling method, at the time of discharge from hospital. Satisfaction level was measured by likert scale. The data was analyzed using descriptive statistics and chi-square.
Results: The findings show that the patients are satisfied (41%), almost satisfied (21.5%) and unsatisfied (37.5%) from medical services. About satisfaction from nursing services, 57% of the patients were satisfied, 16.5% of them almost and 26.5% rarely satisfied. There was significant relation between variables such as sex, age, education degree and having insurance and satisfaction from medical and nursing services.
Conclusion : The highest percentage of unsatisfied patients was related to lack of giving information by physicians about the disease and Nursing interventions measures. Interaction behavior between medical staff and patient has an effective impact on patients’ recovery and increase patients’ satisfaction therefore, the necessary measures should be taken to improve communication between patient and physician.
Mis Masoomeh Mortaghi Ghasemi, Mis Zeinab Ghahremani, Mr Amir Vahedian Azimi, Mis Fatemeh Ghorbani,
Volume 8, Issue 1 (10-2011)
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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.
Mis Roghieh Nazari, Mr Mohammad Saberi, Mis Sima Khazaie Nezhad,
Volume 9, Issue 1 (8-2012)
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Background and Objective : Nosocomial infection is a major cause of mortality and morbidity in hospitalized patient. Some experts believe that nurses have a major role in infection control. We aimed to examine and compare the knowledge and practice of prevention and control of Nosocomial infection among nurses and nursing students in Amol.
Material and Methods : This cross-sectional study was conducted on 190 nurses working in state hospitals of Amol (n=100) and internship nursing students (n=90) in 2010.We collected the data by a questionnaire including personal characteristics, knowledge and practice part, and analyzed, using statistical software SPSS-16,by descriptive statistics and independent samples t-test, chi-square and Pearson correlation.
Results: The mean score of nurses' knowledge and practice, respectively, was 6.91±1.06 and 8.00±1.33 in the range of 0-10 that is significantly more than students' knowledge and practice 6.29±1.73 and 7.56 ± 7.56(P=0.009). More Than half of the participants (59% of students and 53.4% nurses) have a moderate level of knowledge. There is significant difference between nurses' knowledge and students' (P=0.003).
Conclusion: The results suggest that students’ knowledge and performance is weaker than those of nurses. And they both need to receive Documented and managed training programs related to prevention and control of nosocomial infection during their educational period and work.
Keywords: Knowledge, Performance, Nosocomial infection, Nurse, Nursing student, Prevention
Mojgan Kalantarzadeh, Dr Mahbobeh Safavi, Dr Mahmood Mahmoodi,
Volume 9, Issue 2 (1-2013)
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Background and Objective: Parkinson disease (PD) is a common neuro degenerative disorder, which is chronic and progressive. The specialized PD nurse is needed to give better care services. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the impact of nursing roles on the nurses′ knowledge and attitude toward taking care of patients suffering from Parkinson.
Material and Methods: In this quasi-experimental study conducted in 2009, 102 nurses of Kerman University of Medical Sciences were selected and divided into two groups (case and control).The instrument was a researcher made questionnaire. After pretest, the educational program including lecture, group discussion and pamphlet was performed and after three weeks, Post test was given. Using Software SPSS-15, the data was analyzed by applying descriptive and inferential statistics.
Results: There is a significant difference (P<0.000) between the nurses' general knowledge (7.51± 3.17) and general attitude (8.35±5.22). The general knowledge and attitude of control groups are not different between first and second time of recording. General comparison of the effect of training indicates that the difference between intervention and control groups are statistically significant in the first and second time of recordings(p<0.000).
Conclusion: The education programs are effective on nurses′ knowledge and attitude toward Parkinson disorder and the roles such as medical care, Education and advocacy. Hence, the educational interventions related to nursing roles in caring Parkinson patients are necessary.
Dr Fatemeh Alhani, Akram Sadat Sadat Hosseini, Dr Abdolhossein Khosropanah, Dr Abdolkarim Behjatpour,
Volume 9, Issue 2 (1-2013)
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Background and Objective: The concepts are defined differently upon the dominated philosophy and ideology of the communities. Thus, it can be possible to define the main concepts of nursing based on the philosophical and ideological foundation of Islamic ideology in Iran. The aim of the present study was to explain the human’s concepts based on Islamic documents and compare with nursing theories.
Material and Methods: The concept derivation of Walker and Avant was used for theory construction. In this method, by studying the existing Islamic theories about human, the researchers chose the best theories adjusting to nursing and redefined them on the basis of nursing concepts. Finally the human’s concept was derived of theories of Ayatollah Javadi Amoli, Mesbah Yazdi and Mohammad Taghi Jafari.
Results: Human, consists of body and spirit, which have been created based on Fetrat . The movement according to Fetrat is accomplished by the help of wisdom, authority and faith to reach Ghalbe Salim, which is the summit of spiritual health. To reach Ghalbe Salim, human should consider the fields including plant, animal and wisdom. Thus, the nurse’s duty is to help the clients to achieve their real Fetrat, based on the human areas.
Conclusion: In terms of this definition that verifies the superiority of spirit over body, nurses must pay attention to the spirit more than the body. In contrast with caring theories, the leader of nursing programs is Fetrat rather than the individual needs and experiences. Hence, the nurses’ duty is to help the human, based on Fetrat, to reach the highest health that is Ghalbe Salim.
Ghanbar Rouhi, Seyyed Abedin Hosseini, Hossein Rahmani Anaraki, Einollah Mollaie, Hossein Nasiri,
Volume 9, Issue 2 (1-2013)
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Background and Objective: With the development of human societies, the needs for different types of health services are increasing. Because of limitations and shortage of national resources, the awareness of health administrators about appropriate allocation of resources leads to efficient use of assets. The aim of this study was to measure the workload and efficacy of nursing staff in internal ward.
Material and Methods: This descriptive and cross sectional study was conducted on, via census sampling, all nursing activities performed by 10 nurses for 94 patients in Panje-Azar Hospital of Gorgan. To determine the efficacy, we asked the subjects to fill out a researcher made, validated questionnaire and measured the time of their presence in the ward. Data analysis was performed by analysis variance, using SPSS-16 software.
Results: Of total time of presence, 20.3% is spent for documentary activities whereas only 0.49% for patient education. Overall, the spent time for direct and indirect nursing activities is 46.46% and 53.54%, respectively. The efficacy of nursing staff is 62%, the highest (66.6 %) for morning shift and the lowest for night shift (58.34 %). There is no significant difference, using analysis variance, in efficacy rates of work shifts (morning, evening and night).
Conclusion : In spit of efficacy of over 50 percent in different shifts, the educational programs related to time management, human resource development and electronic nursing are necessary to increase the efficacy.
Mohammad Javad Aghajani,
Volume 9, Issue 2 (1-2013)
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Background and Objective: The Professional burnout is one of the main factors in efficiency decline, loss of human power and psycho physical problems. In regard to the importance of nurses’ role in health system, the aim of this study was to compare the Professional burnout of nurses in different wards of Shahid Ansari Hospital in Roodsar.
Material and Methods: In this comparative research study, the subjects(N=100)were selected, via Morgan table sampling , among 128 nurses worked in the wards such as Women Internal Medicine, CCU, Pediatrics, Men Internal Medicine, Midwifery, Operation Room andEmergency. The data collected by Maslach Professional burnout was analyzed by Spss-18 software.
Results: The nurses’ professional burn out was assessed in three aspects of emotional exhaustion, depersonalization and personal accomplishment. The emergency room’s nurses have the highest emotional exhaustion and depersonalization (P=0.001) and personal accomplishment (P=0.001).
Conclusion: Regarding the high amount of Professional burnout in emergency room, we recommend providing the necessary educations and facilities to promote the condition.
Dr Gholamreza Mahmoodi, Leila Rafiee Vardanjani, Neda Parvin, Einollah Mollaie, Naser Behnampour, Alireza Shariati, Dr Saied Mardani,
Volume 10, Issue 0 (9-2013)
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Background and Objective: Treatment adherence has an essential role in improving quality of life, survival, decreasing cost and side effects of treatment in patients underwent hemodialysis. This study aimed to determine the effect of individual multi-stage care on the treatment adherence in hemodialysis' patients, ShahrekordHajar hospital.
Material and Methods: This clinical trial was conducted on 66 Hemodialysis patients in 2013. They were randomly allocated into two equal groups of intervention and control. The instrument was the end-stage renal disease adherence questionnaire (ESRD-AQ). The patients in intervention group were participated in 8-session individual care program for one hour in addition to routine treatment. The data was analyzed using Mann–Whitney , Wilcoxon and Spearman (P<0.05). Level.
Results: The study indicated a significant difference between two groups in all dimensions of treatment adherence except dietary and food adherence. Adherence to treatment was better in intervention group (P<0.05). Furthermore, there was a significant correlation between adherence treatment and age of patients (P<0.05, r=0.245).
Conclusion: based on the findings, multi-stage care is effective on different aspects of treatment adherence.
Khadijeh Harati, Hamid Chamanzari, Dr Moosa Alreza Hosseini , Dr Seyyed Ahmad Saghebi, Nazila Zarghi, Dr Seyyed Reza Mazloom, Zahra Dadras,
Volume 10, Issue 0 (9-2013)
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Background and Objective: Gastroesophageal reflux disease is one of the most common chronic disorders of the digestive system. The most common reason for this complaint is the unfitted temperament of food and body. This study aimed to determine the effect of temperament–based diet education on quality of life in the patients with GERD in endoscopy department of Qaem hospital in Mashhad. .
Material and Methods: This randomized-controlled clinical trial was conducted on 60 patients, referring to Qaem hospital, were randomly assigned to two groups of diet education and control. The intervention was a two-week long diet education class, which was on the basis of temperament. The instruments were the frequency Scale for the symptoms of gastro esophageal reflux ) FSSG) and the diet checklist. The data was analyzed by SPSS-11.5, using Chi Square, Independent T test, Paired T test.
Results: After education, the frequency of the symptoms was significantly reduced (p<0.0001). The mean score in education group compared to control was diminished both shortly after intervention (13.63±4.77, p<0.001 ) and after two weeks (18.73±4.15, p=0.070) .
Conclusion: Considering temperament in the diet education by nurses can play an important role in decreasing the frequency of symptoms in patients with Gastro esophageal Reflux Disease.
Shiva Pejmankhah, Sheida Pejmankhah, Dr Hamid Alavi Majd,
Volume 10, Issue 1 (4-2013)
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Background and Objective: Nurses should be so determined and competent that, in the dynamic and changing conditions of the patients, they could use their technical skills and professional knowledge to make a rigorous clinical judgment about the patient's health status. Accordingly, a study was conducted to assess the health status of patients and nurses in the hospitals affiliated with the social security organization in Tehran, Iran.
Material and Methods: This descriptive – analytical study was conducted on 96 nurses working in medical-surgical and emergency wards of the hospitals affiliated with Social Security Organization in Tehran. The instrument was a questionnaire including two parts of demographic data and 11 questions for assessing nurses' performance. To analyze the data, we useddescriptive and inferential statistics.
Results: The mean age is 7.15 ± 32.8 and 75% of the patients are females. Their (53.1%) work of experience is between 73-96 months and their (52.1%) performance is observed poor. There is significant correlation between nurses' performance and variables such as gender, age, marital status, work experience and ward of hospital.
Conclusion: Because of low performance of the nurses, it is important for nurses to assess the health status of patients , the same as physicians using screening forms on the file of patients.
Esmaeil Mohammadnejad, Seyyedeh Roghayeh Ehsani, Amir Salari, Azam Sajjadi, Ayeshe Hajiesmaeelpour,
Volume 10, Issue 1 (4-2013)
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Background and Objective : Drug administration is considered an important aspect of patient care process and reporting the errors is needed to maintain safety. We aimed to investigate “Perspectives of Nurses about refusing to report the medication errors in Emergency Ward”.
Material and Methods : In this descriptive study, 94 Emergency nurses were recruited by census in 2011-2012. The instrument was a researcher-made questionnaire including demographic data and questions related to the causes and factors affecting the reporting of medication errors. Using SPSS-16 software, the data was analyzed by applying descriptive and inferential statistics.
Results: The nurses who did not report medication errors are 72%. The most common type of medication errors are infusion rate(33.3%) and wrong- drug dosage (23.8%). The most important reasons of medication errors are shortage of nursing staff (47.6%) and lack of pharmacological information (30.9%). Most common reasons for refusing to report the medication errors are fear of its negative effect on financial advantages, inappropriate or negative attitude of managers toward reporting errors and lack of importance of reporting from nurses י perspective.
Conclusion: Considering the high rate of refusing to report, it is needed to be created some appropriate conditions to enhance the rate of reporting and removing the barriers. Nursing managers should have positive reaction to nurses’ reporting.
Naser Rahimi, Dr Gholamali Ghasemi, Mohsen Eshaghian, Dr Azar Aghayari,
Volume 10, Issue 2 (10-2013)
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Background and Objective: Back pain is one of the most common and most costly occupational injuries. Due to the nature of nursing career, low- back pain is highly prevalent in nurses. The aim of this study was to survey the prevalence of low-back pain and its correlation with nurses’ demographic characteristics and occupational factors in hospitals of Isfahan, Iran.
Material and Methods: This descriptive- co relational study was conducted on 244 out of 260 nurses selected via stratified random sampling. Using Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) and Oswestry Functional Disability Questionnaire (ODQ), the Pain and functional disability variables were measured, respectively. To analyze the data, we used independent t-test and correlation coefficient-(p<0.05).
Results: The findings showed that 55% of the nurses have different intensity of low back pain (LBP). The LBP and monthly working hours (r=0.55), LBP and functional disability (r=0.53), LBP and age(r =0.30), and LBP and record of services (0.29) were significantly correlated, But it was not the case for LBP and gender.
Conclusion: Based on the findings that about 55% of the nurses suffer from low- back pain, it seems that a comprehensive change in life style and physical activity pattern of the nurses are paramount importance.
Dr Hassan Babamohamadi, Dr Mahdi Kahouie, Soheila Bayat, Sedigheh Fooladian, Maryam Shahsavane Toghan,
Volume 10, Issue 2 (10-2013)
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Background and Objective: This study aimed to assess nurses' attitude toward the effect of nursing electronic reports on patient care.
Material and Methods: This descriptive-analytical study was conducted on 316 nurses in the hospitals affiliated to Semnan University of Medical Sciences and social security organization, 2012. The instrument was a researcher-made questionnaire, valid and reliable. The data was analyzed by Chi Square, Fisher and Phi test.
Results: Forty-seven five point percent of the nurses completely disagreed with the impact of electronic reporting on patient assessment (1.8± 1.06) and 54.4% completely disagreed with its impact on the selection of clinical intervention (1.8 ± 1.06). On the other hand , 50% of nurses agreed with the effect of the computer program on patient care (2.2±0.99), 42.4% were satisfied with its effect on patient's diet planning (2.1±1.5) and 40.7% with the computer program on nursing diagnosis (2.01±1.09).There was significant relationship between some of the nurses’ demographic characteristics and their attitude (P<0.05).
Conclusion: Based on the results, nurses’ attitudes can be attributed to some defects in the computer programs and to the nurses’ compliance with information technology. To improve the effectiveness of electronic reporting, first, the quality of computer programs of clinical settings should be enhanced, and then changes should be occurred in organizational policies and in electronic documentation. Further, we should consider the impact of Levine's theory of change, indicating the staff’s resistance to technology adoption in workplace.
Atefeh Vaezi, Azam Dabirian, Malihe Ameri, Dr Amir Kavosi,
Volume 10, Issue 2 (10-2013)
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Background and objective: Contribution is the main element in inter-professional relationship between the nurse and physician, requiring collaborative relationship and sharing information to reach a common therapeutic goal. the collaboration between the nurse and physician in clinical decision-making is a necessity for high-quality care in hospitals.This study aimed to determine nurses' perspective about collaboration in clinical decision-making.
Material and Methods: This descriptive study was conducted on the nurses selected by convenience sampling and inclusion criteria in state, private and social well-fare hospitals, 2011. The data was collected by a questionnaire including demographic and nurse-physician collaboration questions, whose validity and reliability were evaluated by content validity and test re-test. Descriptive statistics such as frequency mean and standard deviation was used.
Results: The results showed that the samples (76.5%) were females, aged between 30 and 39.5(58.3%), BSc of nursing (93.5%), contract employment (53.8%) and 5-9 year record of services (50%). The viewpoint of the nurses about collaboration in decision-making was moderate (70.8%), good (7.5%) and weak (14%).
Conclusion: Based on the results, a few nurses are satisfied their collaboration with physician in decision-making. It seems that the nurse-physician contribution in therapeutic procedure got the highest point, and absence of opportunity in giving comment got the lowest score.
Fahimeh Amini,
Volume 10, Issue 2 (10-2013)
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Background and objective: Burnout is one of the key factors in reducing efficiency and it causes loss of manpower and physical complications. Personality characteristics such as resiliency is abuffer against stressful events and work-related psychological problems such as burnout. Given the important role of nurses in health-caresystem , this study investigates The relationship between resiliency and burnout in nurses.
Material and Methods: This descriptive study was conducted on 304 nurses working in the hospitals in Tehran, 2010. The subjects were chosen by multi-stage cluster sampling. The instruments were Maslach burnout inventory (MBI), Connor-Davidson Resiliency Scale (CD-RISC) and a demographic check-list. The data was analyzed by SPSS-18.
Results: Overall, the findings showed high emotional exhaustion, (32.6% in frequency 9.9% in intensity), depersonalization (25.7% in frequency 18.1% in severity) and personal failure (42.1% in frequency 60.9% in severity). The relationship between burnout and resiliency was significant (0.01).
Conclusion: Given the resiliency is one of the predictors of burnout we recommend some workshops to increase the resiliency-related skills of the nurses.
Neda Parvin, Leila Rafiee Vardanjani,
Volume 11, Issue 1 (5-2014)
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Background and Objective: Management of aggressive behavior is one of the important problems for nurses working in psychiatric wards. This study aimed at determining nurses' problem in dealing with aggressive behavior in psychiatric wards.
Material and Methods: This descriptive-analytic study, via census sampling, was conducted on 41 nurses engaging in psychiatric wards of Hajar and Sina Hospitals in Shahrekord, 2011. The data collected by a research-made questionnaire including demographic data and nurses' problems for management of patient aggression in three domains of personal, physical environment of ward and organizational factors. Using means, frequency, Mann-Whitney and Chi square, we described and analyzed the data.
Results: The average age of nurses was 36.34±6.74 and their record of services in psychiatry ward was 6.73± 4.85 years. The most frequent nurses' problem in management of aggressive patients was related to personal problem specially the threat of having physical conflict with patients and encountering with the consequences of patients’ physical restriction. There was no significant relationship between the frequency of aggression and the variables such as age, sex, work shift, work history and type of employment (P>0.05).
Conclusion: Based on the results, the nurses working in psychiatry wards are faced with some problems in dealing with aggressive patients especially in personal and physical environment domains. Hence, it needs to be considered by the officials.
Dr Gholam Reza Mahmoodi Shan , Hosein Rahmani, Ali Akbar Abdollahi, Dr Mohammad Ali Vakili, Houralnesa Sheikh, Hosein Nasiri,
Volume 11, Issue 1 (5-2014)
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Background and Objective: There is an inevitable relationship between nurses' health and their lifestyle. Therefore, we intended to determin nurses’ lifestyle and its' relationship with some personal- professional characteristics.
Material and Methods: This descriptive-analytical investigation was conducted on 391 nurses selected via multi-stage random sampling in the Hospitals affiliated to Golestan University of medical sciences. The data was collected by a nurses lifestyle questionnaire having 6 subscales (internal consistency α=0.87 and stability r= 0.897). The data was analyzed by SPSS16 soft ware using independent t test, Kruskal-Wallis, Mann-Whitney U and chi-square tests( p<0.05).
Results: Of 391 , 20.2% were male and 79.2% female, and 85.4% have worked in rotation shift. The nurses (36.3 %) working experience was 6-10 years. The majority (78.1%) had optimal lifestyle. The highest score belonged to competency subscale (92.17%) and the lowest to personal life management subscale (64.82%). There was a significant relationship between a number of lifestyle subscales and some personal-professional characteristics such as nurse position,
Employing condition, work shift, overtime, night shift and holiday shifts (p≤ 0.05).
Conclusion: There is a relationship between nurses' lifestyle and some of the personal-professional status. Given that some professional conditions can decrease the personal life management and the role management of healthy lifestyle, we recommend that managers should be careful about working programs to provide healthy lifestyle.
Fahime Pourakbari, Dr Afsaneh Khajevand Khoshli , Dr Javanshir Asadi,
Volume 11, Issue 2 (11-2014)
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Background and Objective: Psychological hardiness has a relationship with various aspects of physical, psychological and social health of people, and it seems that high level of that may lead to a decrease in death anxiety and an increase in life quality in nurses. Hence, we aimed to determine the relationship of psychological hardiness and quality of life with death anxiety in nurses.
Material and Methods: This correlational study was conducted on 273 nurses selected via simple random sampling in both state and private hospitals of Gorgan, Iran, in 2013. The instruments were psychological hardiness, quality of life and death anxiety questionnaires. To analyze data, we used Pierson correlation coefficient and multiple linear regressions.
Results: There was significant relationship between psychological hardiness and death anxiety (r=-0.220, p<0.001) between quality of life and death anxiety (r=-0.227, p<0.001). Based on concurrent multiple linear regression, only psychological hardiness and social performance (one of the sub-scales of quality of life) had a meaningful relationship with the death anxiety.
Conclusion: It seems that high psychological hardiness may lead to decreased death anxiety and increased quality of life in nurses.
