Ahmad Osta; Parvaneh Vasli; Meimanat Hosseini; Malihe Nasiri; Camelia Rohani
Volume 20, s1 , December 2018, , Pages 1-8
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Background: Operating room staffs are constantly subjected to a wide range of risks and injuries; therefore, any attempt to increase their safety through education is justified and considered a necessity. Objectives: The aim of present study was to determine the effect of education based on the health ...
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Background: Operating room staffs are constantly subjected to a wide range of risks and injuries; therefore, any attempt to increase their safety through education is justified and considered a necessity. Objectives: The aim of present study was to determine the effect of education based on the health belief model on adherence to standard precautions in operating room staff. Materials and Methods: This single-arm clinical study was carried out with a single-group, before-after study design. Seventy eli- gible operating room staff members from a hospital in Islamabad-e-Gharb, a city in Iran, were selected using the census sampling method in 2016 - 2017. The educational program, based on the constructs of the health belief model and related to taking standard precautions, was completed by operating room staff in three separate 30 to 45-minute sessions. Data collection tools included a demographic questionnaire and six researcher-created questionnaires based on the health belief model constructs and a standard self-efficacy questionnaire. The validity and reliability of all questionnaires were assessed and verified. Data were collected and an- alyzed before and 4 weeks after the educational program. Both the descriptive and inferential statistics (paired t-test) functions ofSPSS version 22 were used to analyze the data. Results: Nearly 85.7% of the operating room staff participants were men, and their mean age was 37.30 ± 6 years. The means and standard deviations of adherence to the standard precautions before and after the education were 35.17 ± 5.65 and 37.71 ± 5.83, respectively. The results of the paired t-test showed that except in case of cues to action, education based on the health belief model brought about significant changes in the constructs of this model, including perceived susceptibility (p = 0.03), perceived severity (P = 0.01), perceived benefits (P = 0.04), perceived barriers (P = 0.01), self-efficacy (P = 0.03), and adherence to standard precautions (P = 0.04). Conclusions: Nursing managers, nurses, and operating room staff can use the findings of this study for education and assessment of adherence to standard precautions.
Narjes Deyhoul; Parvaneh Vasli; Camelia Rohani; Nezhat Shakeri; Meimanat Hosseini
Volume 20, Issue 6 , 2018, Pages 1-10
Abstract
Background: Stroke is the main cause of adult inability and dependency on caregiver in performing activities of daily living (ADLs). Studies showed that the caregivers of such patients experienced high levels of dependency-induced caring pressure and, conse- quently, physical-psychological problems. ...
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Background: Stroke is the main cause of adult inability and dependency on caregiver in performing activities of daily living (ADLs). Studies showed that the caregivers of such patients experienced high levels of dependency-induced caring pressure and, conse- quently, physical-psychological problems. Objectives: The present study aimed to examine the effect of the instructional intervention on family caregivers’ perceived threat of stroke patients dependency risk.Methods: In a randomized controlled clinical trial study, a total of 45 pairs of stroke patients and their family caregivers were se- lected based on inclusion and exclusion criteria and randomly divided into the intervention and control groups. Sampling lasted from July 2016 to March 2017 and was performed in Tehran, Iran. Instructional intervention for family caregivers in the intervention group was in the form of four one-hour sessions. The data were collected before and immediately after instructional intervention at the hospital as well as two weeks and two months following the intervention via postal service. Results: The mean rank of family caregivers’ perceived threat was 1.44 and 2.76 in pre-intervention stage of intervention and control groups, which became 2.49 and 2.49 two months after intervention, respectively. The Friedman test showed that there was a signifi- cant difference in all post instructional intervention stages compared with pre-intervention (P < 0.001), whereas no such difference was observed in the control group (P = 0.245). The Mann-Whitney U test also showed that the pre-intervention family caregivers per- ceived threat was also not significantly different in the two groups (P = 0.591). However, it was increased immediately, two weeks,and two months following the intervention compared with the control group (P < 0.001). Conclusions: It is recommended that stroke patients’ caregivers be provided with instructional programs to enhance their under- standing of patient dependency risks and challenges.
Leila Hosseinpour-Dalenjan; Foroozan Atashzadeh-Shoorideh; Meimanat Hosseini; Jamileh Mohtashami
Volume 19, Issue 4 , April 2017, , Pages 1-8
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Background: Because nurses’ work engagement is related to positive outcomes like increasing organization productivity, it is necessary to promote it. The first step to achieve this goal is to determine the factors associated with nurses’ work engagement, yet very few studies have been conducted ...
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Background: Because nurses’ work engagement is related to positive outcomes like increasing organization productivity, it is necessary to promote it. The first step to achieve this goal is to determine the factors associated with nurses’ work engagement, yet very few studies have been conducted on this subject in Iran.Objectives: This study aimed at investigating the correlation between work engagement and workplace incivility in nurses who were working in selected teaching hospitals of Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences in Tehran, Iran, during 2015 and 2016.Methods: In this descriptive correlational study, 516 nurses were selected randomly from teaching hospitals of Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences during 2015 and 2016. Data were collected using the demographic questionnaire, the utrecht work engagement scale, and the nursing incivility scale.Results: Themeans of work engagement and workplace incivility scores were 3.59±1.16 (average) and 2.68±0.65 (low), respectively. A significant negative correlation was found between work engagement and workplace incivility in nurses (P < 0.01, r = -0.27). The findings of the present study revealed that the nurses’ work engagement and incivility from physicians were significantly different based on the type of ward. In addition, the mean score of incivility from physicians were significantly different based on different hospitals and work experience.Conclusions: Nursing managers should use proper strategies to improve nurses’ work engagement and decrease the incidence of incivility in hospitals and clinical environments.
