This study aims to explore the life experiences of Iranian leprosy patients in health, family and economic dimensions. Mycobacterium leprae is responsible for leprosy, a type of chronic inflammatory disease that existed from ancient times, still hearing the name of leprosy creates an awful imagination of cutting the organ, blindness and isolation and it has still remained as a serious social problem. The patients are confronted with particular problems physically and mentally. The phenomenological tradition was used to gain knowledge of the leprosy patients lived experiences. Data analysis method was based on Colaizzi's approach. This is a qualitative research using purposeful sampling, interviewing the leprosy patients referring to a contagious diseases department of the Health Network of Nourabad Lorestan City. Data were collected by interviews those were analyzed in Colaizzi's Methods to extract the conceptual codes. Some concepts obtained from the analysis of data in the study such as physical, psychological, social, family, economic experiences, cultural beliefs of society, the context for tendency toward defect and disability and social stigma. These findings suggest that health care professionals should pay attention not only to leprosy patients to reduce their physical and psychological but also to the community and public culture to reduce the leprosy patients suffering from social stigma. The results of the present study can help us in a better understanding of all aspects of patients' lived experiences.
The present study aimed at investigating the Iranian women's experiences of spousal abuse. The study followed a qualitative and phenomenological research design. 23 Iranian women age-ranged between 17 and 58 formed the sample population of the research. The seven-step Colaizzi procedure was applied for data analysis. The following 5 main themes were developed. The first main theme was deprivation; the second main theme was humiliation; the third main theme was forgotten love; the fourth main theme was assault; and the fifth main theme was patriarchy. All these five themes represented the women's life experiences of spousal abuse.
Introduction: Spiritual intelligence is on of the effective factors in improving the quality of nursing services and can play a fundamental role in the observance of patients rights because it provides nurses to deal with stressful situations and situations. The quality of work life is a degree of nurses' satisfaction with the level of individual's important needs and organizational demands being met. Quality of work life is a factor beyond the level of job satisfaction and is related to the goodness of the people. Therefore, this research was designed and implemented to determine the relationship between spiritual intelligence and quality of work life in nurses in the oncology departments of Ahwaz hospitals in 2017. Methods: This descriptive correlational study was performed on 95 nurses in the oncology departments of Ahwaz hospitals. Sampling was done by census method. Data collection was carried out using personal data form, King's Spiritual Intelligence Questionnaire and Richard Walton's Quality of Work Life, whose validity has been proved in numerous studies. The reliability of the questionnaires was calculated by Cronbach's alpha method. Cronbach's alphas for the spiritual intelligence and quality of work life questionnaires were 9.33 and 0.93, respectively. Findings: The results of this study showed that most of the subjects were female, married, expert, passing the human resource plan, with a mean age of 30.06, an average work record of 5.44 ± 5.40 years, and with an average employment record in the oncology department equal to 3.65 ± 4.36 years. The results showed that the mean spiritual intelligence was 58.07% and the average quality of work life was 89.23%. Conclusion: Pearson correlation test showed that spiritual intelligence and quality of work life in nurses in oncology departments were significantly correlated, and the quality of work life has been increased with increasing spiritual intelligence in nurses (P = 0.016, r = 0.246). In examining the relationship between spiritual intelligence and individual characteristics in nursing staff, there was a significant relationship only between age, job history, and work experience in the oncology department and spiritual intelligence (P < 0.05). In examining the relationship between quality of work life and individual characteristics in nursing staff, there was a significant relationship only between job history and work experience in the oncology department and quality of work life (P < 0.05).
scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.
hi@scite.ai
10624 S. Eastern Ave., Ste. A-614
Henderson, NV 89052, USA
Copyright © 2024 scite LLC. All rights reserved.
Made with 💙 for researchers
Part of the Research Solutions Family.