Background: The physical problems associated with burns can cause patients various difficulties and negatively affect their independence as well as participation in daily life activities. Objectives: This study aimed to evaluate the effect of a rehabilitation nursing program on hand burn patients’ daily functioning. Methods: The present randomized clinical trial was conducted to examine 60 hand burn patients referred to the Shahid Motahari Hospital of Tehran, Iran, between November 4, 2020, and April 19, 2021. The patients were randomly divided into two groups using the block randomization method (n = 30 per group). The intervention group received a 5-week rehabilitation nursing program in two steps: during the acute stage of the disorder (i.e., the time of admission) and during the recovery stage (i.e., before discharge). Data were collected in each step using the General Activities of Daily Living (GADL) questionnaire. The control group received routine care. Inferential and descriptive statistics, such as the independent and paired t-test, as well as the chi-square test and analysis of covariance, were used to analyze the data. Results: The results showed no significant difference in the daily performance of the individuals assigned to the study groups prior to the rehabilitation program (P = 0.29). According to the results of covariance analysis, the overall performance mean scores of the two groups were significantly different after implementing the nursing rehabilitation program, with a significantly higher score (i.e., better performance) recorded for the intervention group (P < 0.001). Also, the means of pre- and post-intervention performance scores were significantly different in the rehabilitation group (P < 0.001), but they were not significantly different in the control group. Conclusions: It was concluded that implementing a rehabilitation nursing program improved the daily performance of patients with hand burns, which offered a valid ground for accelerating the rehabilitation of these patients and shortening the period they needed to return to society.
Background: As for high prevalence and incidence of heart failure, it can impose huge health, economic, and social burden on society. Education and self-care are important aspects of management in patients with heart failure, which can control the disease complications. This study aimed to investigate the effect of family-centered education approach on self-care behaviors of the patients with heart failure. Methods: This research is a randomized clinical trial. The study has been conducted on 72 patients with heart failure hospitalized in Shahid Rajai cardiovascular, medical, and research center, Tehran, Iran, in 2015. Patients were randomly assigned into the intervention (familycentered) and control groups. The self-care behaviors were measured before and two months after intervention using questionnaires of the self-care behaviors. Data analysis was done using paired t test and independent t test by SPSS. Results: Before intervention, mean (SD) values of self-care scores were 23.88 (4.71) and 21.50 (3.30) in the control and family-centered groups, respectively, with no statistically significant difference between two groups (P = 0.064). Two months after the intervention, mean (SD) values of self-care scores in control and intervention groups were 22.94 (4.71) and 42.31 (4.60), respectively. Statistical analysis showed that self-care behaviors in the family-centered group had a significant increase compared to the control group (P < 0.001). Conclusion: Education with family-centered approach has a positive impact on the self-care behavior of patients with heart failure. With regard to our culture and the importance of family, it is suggested that this approach be used in addition to other training methods to improve self-care behaviors in patients with chronic diseases such as heart failure.
Background: Heart Failure (HF) as one of the severe consequences of cardiovascular diseases leads to high mortality in Iran and around the world. This study aims to investigate the effect of self-care education on the resilience of patients with Heart Failure.
Background & Aims: Patient safety is one of the most essential components of health care systems and is one of the most important pillars of quality in these organizations. Healthcare providers can improve a patient's safety status by interacting with patients and their families, controlling procedures, learning from mistakes, and communicating effectively with others on the health care team. Given that nurses spend more time caring for patients than other health care providers, they should be considered as the main group for planning to prevent and reduce the occurrence of medical errors. Increasing reporting and sharing of error information increases patient safety and prevents medical errors from recurring. Explicit disclosure of adverse events can maintain trust between health care providers and patients and reduce disputes and allegations of medical abuse. Therefore, considering the importance of patient safety, the researcher has decided to conduct a study with the aim of determining nurses' perception of the disclosure of patient safety. Materials & Methods: This descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted in the period of October to March 2020 in Tehran. The study population consisted of all nurses working in selected educational and medical centers of Iran University of Medical Sciences ( Rasoul Akram, Shahid Motahari, Shahid Hasheminejad, Shafa Yahyaian and Firoozgar Hospitals). The study was performed on 315 nurses. The sampling method in this stratified study was proportional .The tools used in this study consist of two parts: Demographic information form including questions about age, gender, marital status, education, employment status, work experience, work experience in other centers, ward, shift work and average overtime in Is the moon. Nurses' perceptions of the disclosure of patient safety incidents were measured using the Lee and Kim questionnaire. This questionnaire was translated and used for the first time in Iran. To determine the reliability of this questionnaire, the internal correlation of questions Cronbach's alpha and reproducibility were tested by test on 20 nurses at one week intervals, where Cronbach's alpha of the whole instrument was 0.885 and its intra-cluster correlation coefficient was 0.793. Analyzes were performed using SPSS software version 22 and using descriptive statistics (mean and standard deviation) and inferential statistics (independent t-test and analysis of variance). Finally, a significant level was considered less than 0.05 in the analyzes. Results: The results of the analysis showed that the general perception of nurses about the disclosure of patient safety Incidents with a mean of 55.66±13.20 (based on 0 to 100). The mean score (based on 0 to 100) was highest in the dimension of "nurses'perception of facilitators of open disclosure" with an average of 71.49 and in the dimension of "nurses' perception of the negative consequences of open disclosure" was the lowest with an average of 35.23. Nurses' perception of the disclosure of patient safety incidents had a statistically significant relationship only with the type of employment (P=0.04). A pairwise comparison showed that the average score of nurses with contract employment was significantly lower than formal (P=0.033) and contract (P=0.008). Also, the average score obtained in corporate nurses was significantly lower. It was less than conventional (P=0.029) and at other levels this difference was not significant. Conclusion: Based on the findings of the present study that nurses' overall perception of the disclosure of patient safety Incidents was positive, it is suggested that in order to improve patient safety Incidents disclosure, hospitals should create a positive culture in which explicit the disclosure of patient safety Incidents is first and foremost an opportunity Be considered to actively improve hospital safety. The people and the media must also create an atmosphere that reflects the trust and support of health care providers and institutions in exposing patient safety incidents. This allows healthcare providers to have positive perceptions of the disclosure of patient safety Incidents.
Background: Students' general health is of great importance and serious attention should be paid to their health-related issues. Some personal characteristics such as their traits may be the most influential factors in their general health. Thus, the current study was conducted to determine the relationship between personal traits and general health in nursing students. Methods: This is a descriptive correlational research which was conducted on 194 undergraduate nursing students of Qom Medical University, Qom, Iran, in 2015. Samples were chosen by census method. The relevant data were collected by demographic information, the shortened form of five personality traits assessment, and general health questionnaires. The data were analyzed using Pearson correlation and t-tests by SPSS V. 23. Results: A significant positive correlation was found between personality traits of extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness and general health, while there was a significant negative correlation between neuroticism and general health. Also with regard to general health domains, the maximum mean (SD) belonged to social dysfunction with 8.72 (3.420), and the minimum to depression with 3.27 (4.368). Study results indicated that maximum score belonged to conscientiousness and minimum to neuroticism among the personality traits. Conclusion: Since personality traits play an influential role in different aspects of students' general health, it is expected that factors affecting nursing students' general health be paid more attention and appropriate training for raising health services for students be planned and provided.
BACKGROUNDSelf-management programs on needs of burn patients are still essential. So this study determined the effect of self-management training on anxiety and comfort of burn patients who were candidate for skin grafting. METHODSIn a continuous sampling method in Shahid Motahari Burn Center affiliated to Iran University of Medical Sciences, 80 burn patients candidate for skin grafting were divided into equal groups of intervention and control. Educational intervention was undertaken in the form of booklet during two sessions before and after skin grafting. Visual comfort scale questionnaire and Spiel Berger state-trait anxiety inventory were completed by patients before training and one month after intervention. RESULTSThere was a significant difference between the frequency of comfort level in both groups before and after the intervention. The level of comfort in the intervention group increased more than control group. The mean level of patients' anxiety showed a significant difference between groups and scores in intervention group were significantly more than control group. CONCLUSION Attention and control of anxiety and comfort in burn patients are one of the essential elements of their care. It can be suggested that self-management training can reduce anxiety and increase burn patients' comfort.
Burn is known as a life-threatening event in people’s lives, causing numerous physical, psychological, and social harms and negatively affecting patients’ quality of lives. This study was designed to evaluate the effectiveness of implementing a nursing rehabilitation model in improving the quality of life of people with hand burns. This was a randomized clinical trial conducted on 60 burn patients admitted to the Shahid Motahari Hospital, Burn Research Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran in 2021. The patients were randomly allocated into two groups of intervention and control (n = 30 per group). The participants of the intervention group received a 5-week nursing rehabilitation program in two phases: at the acute phase (admission) and the recovery phase (before discharge). Data were collected using the Burns Specific Health Scale Brief (BSHS-B) questionnaire before each phase. The quality of life (Qol) - was significantly different comparing the two groups before the intervention (p = 0.042). Covariance analysis showed that after the intervention, the mean quality of life score was significantly higher in the intervention than the control group, indicating a better Qol in the recent group (p <0.001). In the control group, the mean score of Qol was not significantly different before and after the intervention; however, this difference was statistically significant in the intervention group (p = 0.001). The implementation of the nursing rehabilitation model improved the Qol of patients with hand burns. So, this model seems to be an appropriate and effective strategy to accelerate the rehabilitation of patients with hand burns and their return to society.
Background & Aims: Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a disease that evolves into a chronic progressive phase and leads to a loss of muscular ability following the attack of the nervous system by the immune system. MS incidence has significantly increased in Iran and the world, and its disabling and progressive nature has affected various aspects of the life of patients and their caregivers. In fact, caregivers face the process of death, pain, and fear of mortality of patients during the care process, which may affect their quality of life. Therefore, given the direct impact of the caregivers' quality of life on patients' quality of life, more support of caregivers is of utmost importance. Since the care of patients might cause death anxiety and decrease the quality of life of caregivers, the present study aimed to determine the relationship between death anxiety and the quality of life of caregivers of MS patients. Materials & Methods: This descriptive and correlational study was performed on caregivers of MS patients who referred to Iran MS society in 2018. In total, 200 individuals were selected by convenience sampling after determining the sample size based on 95% confidence interval, 80% test power, and 0.2 correlation coefficient between death anxiety and quality of life of MS patients. The research was approved by the ethics committee of the Iran University of Medical Sciences. Data were collected using a demographic characteristics questionnaire for caregivers of MS patients (age, gender, level of education, marital status, economic status, occupational status, relationship with the patient, duration of care, and being responsible for care alone), the 36-item short-form health survey (SF-36), and Templer's death anxiety scale. The latter instrument encompassed 15 items and was scored in a range of 0-15. In this regard, a score higher than eight was indicative of high death anxiety in the participants, whereas scores below seven showed low death anxiety. On the other hand, SF36 had eight dimensions of general health, physical performance, role limitations due to physical issues, role limitations due to emotional reasons, physical pain, social performance, joy, and psychological health. In the mentioned questionnaire, the lowest and highest scores were zero (worst case scenario) and 100 (best case scenario), respectively. In the end, higher scores demonstrated a better quality of life. Data analysis was performed n SPSS version 16 using descriptive (frequency, frequency percentage, mean and standard deviation) and inferential (analysis of variance, independent t-test, Scheffe's test, and Pearson's correlation coefficient) statistics. Results: In this study, the mean age of the participants was 40.39 ± 11.75 years. The majority of the participants were male (58.5%) and married (64.4%). In terms of relationships with patients, 40% of the subjects were spouses of the patients, and 54.5% of them took care of the patients alone. The mean duration of patient care was 8.7 ± 5.9, and most caregivers had a diploma degree (3...
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