Background: Cervical cancer is the second most common type of cancer affecting women worldwide. Sexual and reproductive problems can reduce the quality of life of women with cervical cancer. Quality of life studies in health care industry, especially in oncology, have become an essential tool used to assess patient resilience in different types of cancer and different treatment modalities. Aim(s) to identify the impact of cervical cancer on women's physical, psychological and social health by examining quality of life and to discover any possible statistically significant relationship between women's quality of life and some social, demographic and reproductive characteristics. And explore the experience of women with cervical cancer in terms of its impact on physical, psychological and social health. Methods: A convergent design was used in this study. A mixed-method design was used in this study that consists of The EORTC QLQ-C30 and EORTC QLQ-CX24and semi-structured interviews guide for the quantitative section.100 married women who suffer from cervical cancer and who visit the oncology centers in the city of Baghdad from 14th September to 2nd December2021.Regarding the qualitative section an eleven interview. Results: The quantitative study showed that Cancer had a profound impact on the dimensions of the physical, psychological and social life of a woman with cervical cancer. Similarly, the qualitative findings showed that the life experience of women with cervical cancer has endured a lot of suffering of fighting the disease and its management-related consequences. However, faith-based resilience was the defense mechanism that can explains women’s capacity to move on with their life living with cancer Keywords: Quality of Life; Cervical Cancer; Cancer; Gynecological Cancer; Women’s Health
Background: Nurse midwives are often expected to make ethical decisions in the context of their professional practice, which can lead to ethical confrontations, some of which may lead to ethical dilemmas. The nurses and midwives in the delivery room must keep ethical considerations in mind while caring for a woman in labor so that correct judgments can be made. As a result, the current study emphasized raising ethical efficacy by creating scenarios that simulate the reality of working in the field of reproductive health in order to prepare nurse-midwives who comply with ethical rules during professional practice. Purpose: The main aim of this study is examining how an instructional nursing professional ethics-focused program may affect practice among nurses- midwives in the delivery room. Methods: The quiz experimental design (one-group pretest–posttest design) was used. The purposive non-probability sample consisted of 50 nurse-midwives who worked during the data collection phase in the delivery room. Data collection began in May 2021 - June 2022, using a tool that contains 20 case-scenario that simulate the reality of reproductive care and clinical practice of nurses and midwives regarding professional ethical issues Results: The findings revealed that instructional intervention had a positive impact on nurses - midwife's ethical performance in terms of following professional ethics rules Conclusion: The use of the case-scenario based simulation approach to teach professional nursing ethics contributed to improving compliance with the ethical rules for nurses-midwives working in the delivery room Keywords: Ethical Rules, Instructional Program, Delivery Room, Nurses-midwifes, Practices
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