نشریه پرستاری ایران
پیاپی 137 (شهریور 1401)

Due to the increasing number of older women with anxiety sensitivity, attention to this condition in this vulnerable group is of particular importance. Spiritual wellbeing can promote the mental health of the elderly, especially older women. this study aims to determine the relationship between spiritual wellbeing and anxiety sensitivity of older women in Ashtian, Iran.

This is a descriptive-correlational study. The study population includs all older women referred to urban and rural health centers in Ashtian city. Of these, 160 were selected by a continuous sampling method. A demographic form, the Spiritual Wellbeing Scale and the Anxiety Sensitivity Index-Revised were used to collect information. The collected data were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics in SPSS software, version 16.

The mean±sd total scores of spiritual wellbeing and anxiety sensitivity were 96.1±19.86 and 48.25±31.93, respectively. Spiritual wellbeing had a significant association with anxiety sensitivity in older women (r=-0.734, P<0.001).

There is a negative and significant relationship between spiritual wellbeing and anxiety sensitivity in older women in Iran, such that their anxiety sensitivity decreases with the increase of their spiritual wellbeing  Attention to the spiritual wellbeing of older women in Iran is necessary to reduce their anxiety sensitivity.

 Parents' understanding of how to prevent diseases and treat them promptly is an influential factor in a child's development. Thus, adherence to health-related behaviors depends on the awareness and performance of mothers. In any society, mothers and children require much more health care than other age groups because of their vulnerability. As a result, they draw special attention to themselves. Paying attention to children in a community is an investment in its long-term future. Therefore, it is particularly important to prevent, diagnose, and treat diseases in childhood. In addition, one of the most important aspects of disease prevention for children is observing a mother's behavior with regard to the health of her child. Mothers and children are always a priority group in any society. This is because they are not only the primary consumers of healthcare services but also a large group of vulnerable individuals. This implies that healthy behaviors are essential to maintaining and improving the health of children, families, and society. Furthermore, mothers play a significant role in maintaining and enhancing the health of their children. In order to examine the behaviors associated with the health of hospitalized children and related factors among mothers of hospitalized children, the researchers conducted the present study.

This study was a cross-sectional study conducted by observing the behavior of 216 mothers with children who were hospitalized in children's wards of educational hospitals affiliated with Kashan University of Medical Sciences from November 2018 to March 2019. Based on the preliminary study results, the sample size was calculated by taking the average score of the questionnaire, 20.3 ± 4.75, the first type error of 5%, and the estimation error of 0.5 based on the formula of 216 people. In this study, sampling was continuous. After obtaining permission from the hospital and department officials, the second author visited two educational-therapeutic centers' children's departments. Then, among the hospitalized patients (children), he selected those children whose mother was at the hospital as the primary caregiver. They were then apprised of the objectives of the research, and their hygiene behavior would be observed in the following stages. Afterward, they were asked to provide written consent for participation in the study. In the next stage, the first author (who was a member of the children's department in both study centers) observed the mothers' health behaviors toward their children indirectly. As soon as the observer saw the mother's intrusive behavior in the ward, he immediately went to the nursing station to document it. Due to the fact that the observer was a member of the nursing staff, the possibility of altering the mother's behavior was reduced. Each mother observed the behaviors for nearly 8 hours. In most cases, data collection took place during the morning and evening shifts. The first researcher informed the second researcher of the presence of the mother at the child's bedside by asking the mother of the child. It is likely that the first researcher will also be on shift if a mother is present at the child's bedside during the evening or night shifts.Two parts of a demographic and clinical information questionnaire were used in this study. In order to assess the child's health behaviors, a checklist was used. Data were collected and then analyzed using SPSS v16 software (SPSS Inc., Chicago, IL, USA). We used descriptive statistics, pearson correlation, one-way ANOVA, independent t-test and linear regression analysis to analyze the data.

This study examined 216 mothers of children in the children's ward, 11 of whom were excluded as more than one-third of the items related to the child's health-related behavior questionnaire (more than 11 items) did not apply to them. As a result, they were removed from the data, and the analyses presented here were conducted on 205 individuals. According to the present study, the average age of the mother and father of hospitalized children was 29.27±5.60 and 33.61±6.03 years, respectively. Bachelor's degrees are most common among mothers (31.7%), while diploma degrees are most common among fathers (37.6%). About 91% of mothers are homemakers, and 43% of fathers are workers. The average age of children was 12.16±6.43 months, and more than 80% of them were born first or second. Fever and gastroenteritis accounted for 30.7% of all children who were hospitalized. Based on the study's results, the mean score for observing the health behaviors of mothers of hospitalized children was 16.73±5.55. According to the study, the items "use fresh and safe water for the child to drink" (97.5%), "wash hands with soap and water if they become contaminated with clear water" (95.6%), "Change clothes and bedding as soon as they become contaminated with diarrhea, vomit, blood, and other contaminants" (90.7%), and "Wash hands after changing the child's diaper" (87.3%) had the highest compliance rates. It was found that the items "washing hands before changing a baby's diaper" (8%), "keeping the mobile phone covered with a plastic cover to prevent contamination" (8.8%), "washing hands after contact with the surrounding environment" (15.8%) and "hand washing before breastfeeding the child" (16.7%) had the lowest level of compliance by mothers. Moreover, the results of the multiple linear regression test showed a positive and significant correlation between the average child's health-related behavior compliance score and the mother's age (P=0.000; r=0.157).

The results indicate that mothers failed to comply with behaviors such as washing their child's hands regularly and washing their own hands before feeding their children. It is necessary to educate and inform mothers regarding the observation of behaviors related to the child's health upon entering the hospital in order to ensure their child's safety. In hospitals, it is, therefore, necessary for educational supervisors, patient education supervisors, and children's department supervisors to devise and implement special programs aimed at informing mothers of the importance of protecting their children during hospitalization by educating them about health behaviors.

 Patient safety is an important component and one of the main elements of quality in health care systems. The patient safety status among the pre-hospital Emergency Medical Staff (EMS) in Iran is unclear and there is almost no information about adverse complications. Assessing the current patient safety culture can be a starting point for improving safety attitudes among health care workers, including pre-hospital EMS who are at the forefront of managing patients in critical conditions. This study aims to survey the attitude towards patient safety among pre-hospital EMS in Mashhad, Iran.

 This descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted on 438 full-time pre-hospital EMS with at least 6 months of operational work experience in Mashhad city in 2019, who were selected by a census method. The assessment tool was the Emergency Medical Services Safety Attitudes Questionnaire (EMS-SAQ). The collected data were analyzed in SPSS v. 16 using descriptive statistics (frequency, percentage, mean, and standard deviation) and inferential statistics (independent t test, analysis of variance, and Pearson correlation test). The significance level was set at 0.05.

It was reported that 13.75% had a positive attitude towards patient safety. The mean total score of EMS-SAQ was 53.55±10.60. The most positive attitude was related to stress recognition (34.2%) and the lowest positive attitude was related to safety climate and perception of management (5.7%). There was no statistically significant relationship between any demographic characteristics and overall attitude towards patient safety (P>0.05).

The patient safety culture of the pre-hospital EMS in Mashhad is not positive. This requires further research and also taking measures such as holding briefing sessions for managers and staff, increasing the number of staff, setting up an error reporting system, and including topics related to patient safety in the in-service training courses for the staff.

 Job burnout can leads absenteeism, leaving the job or having the intention to leave, reduced quality of life, reduced performance, and reduced quality of patient care and commitment to the organization. Organizational climate has always been important in the nursing profession and in the hospital environment where the nurse’ performance is known as an important component in improving the quality of treatment. This study aims to determine the relationship of job burnout with organizational climate in nurses.

This descriptive correlational study with cross-sectional design was performed in 2020 in the internal surgical wards of four teaching hospitals affiliated to Iran University of Medical Sciences. The sampling was done by a cluster sampling method. The sample size was determined 200 at a 95% confidence level and considering a 80% test power. To collect data, a demographic form, the Maslach burnout inventory, and Halpin and Croft’s organizational climate description questionnaire were used. Data analysis was performed in SPSS v. 24 software using descriptive and inferential statistics.

 Emotional exhaustion domain of job burnout had a statistically significant correlation with all dimensions of organizational climate except for group spirit and disengagement; it had a negative significant correlation with the hindrance dimension and a positive significant correlation with other dimensions. With the increase of organizational climate, emotional exhaustion increases, resulting in more job burnout.

Health workers, especially nurses and managers, should take measures to reduce job burnout and improve organizational climate and patient satisfaction according to the existing conditions and resources. It is recommended that the educational supervisors of the hospitals develop and implement in-service training focusing on the components of job burnout and organizational climate.

Many nurses are involved in work-family conflicts due to the nature of the nursing profession and high workload. Identification of the factors related to work-family conflict can help reduce or control this conflict. Compassion fatigue and moral distress are some of the factors that may affect the work-family conflict of nurses. This study aims to determine the mediating role of self-differentiation in the relationship between compassion fatigue, moral distress and work-family conflict among nurses.

This is a descriptive-correlational study. The study population includes all married nurses from eight public hospitals in Kerman, Iran. Of these, 159 were selected using a convenience sampling method. Data were collected using the subscale of compassion fatigue in the professional quality of life scale, the moral distress scale, the work-family conflict scale, and the self-differentiation inventory-short form. They were analyzed using structural equation modeling.

 Compassion fatigue, moral distress and self-differentiation could significantly predict work-family conflict in nurses (P<0.05). Self-differentiation was not only directly related to work-family conflict, but also indirectly affected it by reducing moral distress and compassion fatigue.

Self-differentiation skills can help reduce the compassion fatigue and moral stress in nurses and thus reduce their work-family conflicts.

Background & Aims :

Risk management in academic research, courses, and degrees is crucial in universities. However, there is no evidence for risk management in most aspects of university management. This study was conducted to determine the risk management Evaluation from the Staff's Perspective of Iran University Medical Sciences In 2021.

Materials & Methods:

 This is a descriptive cross-sectional study. The research samples were 224 staff of the Iran University of Medical Sciences selected by the available sampling method. The data collection tool was a risk management questionnaire. Risk management was classified into six dimensions. The first dimension is related to the level of employees' knowledge of risk management. The second dimension of risk management status. The third dimension includes policies and procedures. The fourth dimension is related to training status. The fifth dimension was the position of risk management, and finally, the sixth one was monitoring, analysis, evaluation, and risk control. In total, the questionnaire was examined in 45 questions on a 5-point Likert scale and was classified into three levels: poor (score less than 3), moderate (score 3 to 4), and good (score more than 4). The data were analyzed using SPSS software, version 26. The numerical indices of minimum, maximum, Mean±SD for the quantitative variables of the research were used. Friedman test was used to examine the relationship between domains and independent t-test, and analysis of variance and Pearson correlation coefficient was used to investigate the relationship between individual variables and risk management.

Results:

The results showed that most employees (59.4%) were women and the majority (48.7%) were 45-36 years old. The majority of employees (72.8%) were married. Most of the participants (54.4%) worked in administrative headquarters. More than half of the employees (53.1%) had a university degree at the undergraduate level, and only 12.5% of them had completed risk management courses. The results showed that the total score of risk management was 2.44±0/82. The Friedman test result showed a statistically significant relationship between employees' knowledge of risk management and all areas of risk management (p = 0.00). Statistical tests showed that risk management had a statistically significant relationship with the variables of gender (P = 0.02), risk management (P<0.001), and education (P=0.02). The mean score was higher in men than women, and also in employees who had passed the risk management course was higher than other employees. Two-to-two Tukey comparison also showed that the average score obtained by employees with master's degree education was significantly higher than an associate degree (P=0.03). At other levels, this difference was insignificant.

The results showed that, generally, from the perspective of the Iran University of Medical Sciences staff, risk management at this university is poor. In this regard, the development of educational programs, the adoption of policies and procedures, and the establishment of monitoring programs to implement risk management should be seriously pursued at the university.

As a chronic disease with many complications, diabetes requires adherence to treatment regimen. Despite the importance of adherence, it is not done completely in these patients. Non-adherence to treatment has many personal and social consequences. Adherence in diabetic patients can lead to mortality reduction and success in the treatment of diabetes. Considering that adherence to the treatment regimen is challenging among diabetic patients and less attention has been paid to it in Iran, the present study aims to identify the factors related to adherence to treatment regimen among diabetic patients in Sari, Iran.

This descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted in 2021 on 226 adults with Type 2 diabetes referred to Baghban clinic affiliated to Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences in Sari, Iran who were selected using a continuous sampling method. Data were collected using a demographic form and the diabetes activities questionnaire. Questionnaires were prepared online using Google Forms. Data analysis was performed in SPSS software, version 26.

The mean age of participants was 53.06±10.81 years. Most of them were female (61.9%) and married (85.8%) with a high school diploma (26.5%) and moderate economic status (69%). Economic status, age, and BMI had a significant relationship with adherence to treatment regimen (P<0.05); Economic status and age had a positive significant relationship while BMI had a negative significant relationship with adherence to treatment regimen. Diabetic patients with better economic status, higher age, and lower BMI had better adherence.

 This study provides a basis for expanding knowledge of adherence to treatment regimens in diabetic patients in Iran. It is necessary for healthcare providers, especially nurses, to pay attention to the factors related to adherence to treatment in diabetic patients in providing care and education to them to have better treatment.

Knee osteoarthritis (KO) is one of the most common causes of pain, reduced function and disability in the elderly. Exercise is one of the methods suggested to manage the pain caused by KO. This study aims to determine the effectiveness of a home workout program on reducing  pain in the elderly with KO.

In this randomized controlled clinical trial conducted in March 2021 for three months, 70 older adults with KO were selected using a convenience sampling method and randomly assigned to exercise and control groups. The workout program was first implemented twice a day for 4 weeks in the clinic as a trial. Then, it was performed twice a day at home for another 4 weeks. Before and after the exercise, the patients were evaluated by the pain subscale of the Knee Injury and Osteoarthritis Outcome Score (KOOS). The collected data were analyzed in SPSS software, version 18 using independent t, paired t test, chi-square test, and Fisher’s exact test. The significance level was set at 0.05.

There was no statistically significant difference between the two groups in terms of demographic and clinical variables and in the mean pain score before the intervention (P=0.587). After the intervention, a significant reduction in pain intensity was reported in the exercise group (P= 0.009).

The home workout program is effective in reducing the pain of the elderly with KO. It is recommended to use it as a simple and cost-effective intervention to rehabilitate patients with KO along with other treatment methods.