Iran Journal of Nursing
Year:2008 | Volume:21 | Issue:55|Papers Count:14

Background and Aim: One of the important factors in health maintenance and promotion is correct garbage disposal. The aim of this study was to examine the effect of adolescents' participation on the sanitary collection and disposal of garbage.Material and Method: In his quasi-experimental, before-after study, the research population consisted of all adolescents of 102 families living in Rostam-Abad village, located in Buein- Zahra region. At first, training sessions based on the research objectives were established for the adolescents and then, each of them took charge of a few families for education and follow up. Results: Findings indicated that the mean of sanitary status of garbage bin and sanitary disposal, before intervention was 3.2±0.88, whereas, immediately after intervention, it was increased to 4.3±1.6. Paired T-Test showed a statistically significant difference between before/ after intervention (P<0.0001).Two months after the intervention, the mean was 4.29±1.6. Repeated measurement type of ANOVA with Wilks test also indicated a statistically significant difference (P<0.0001).Conclusion: Based on these findings, the rural adolescents' participation can develop the sanitary collection and disposal of garbage.

Background and Aim: Nowadays, nurses are an essential part of the health care team involved in the care of older people. The aim of this study was to determine the knowledge about aging process and attitude toward older people among staff nurses of hospitals affiliated to the Kerman University of Medical Sciences in 2006.Material and Method: In this descriptive analytical study, all of the nurses, working in Kerman University of medical sciences hospitals were selected to participate in the study. Data collection instrument was an investigator- made questionnaire that its validity and reliability was established. Data were analyzed using SPSS software version 11.5.Results: Findings showed that the mean (±SD) duration of working experience of the participants' wasl1.19 (±5.58). Also, 70.2% reported having no previous experience of living with older people. The participants acquired 54% and 88.72% of the score of the knowledge and attitude, respectively. In overall, nurses had positive attitude toward older people. There wasn't found statistically significant relationship between knowledge and attitude scores. Conclusion: The findings of this study support the findings of the previous studies showing that there is knowledge deficit among staff nurses regarding aging process and normal changes of aging. Such knowledge deficit may be rectified through formal and continuing education thereby, increases nurses' understanding of aged people needs. Otherwise, older people in long term care centers would be in danger of being victims of inaccurate nursing cares.

Background and Aim: Cardio-Pulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) has been used by medical professionals to save the life of dying patients. To achieve more success rates in CPR, the timing factor is of great importance; as any delay in starting CPR will reduce the success rate. The aim of this study was to examine the impact of the time elapsed between CPR code announcement and start of resuscitation on CPR outcome.Material and Method: In this cross-sectional study, data was collected from June 2004till June 2005 using checklists that were routinely used in CPR protocol. A total number of 327 cases of CPR were studied and the data was analyzed by SPSS software.Results: Our results showed that 163cases of CPR (49.9%) were immediately successful of those cases with immediate successful CPR, only 46 cases (28.2%) discharged from hospital and 117 cases (71.8%) died afterwards. In the other words, only 46 cases (14.06%) out of 327 patients who underwent CPR, discharged from hospital and the rest (85.94%) died. The mean time elapsed between CPR code announcement and the start of CPR operations was 1.63 minute and 1.87 minute in immediate successful and unsuccessful CPRs, respectively. This difference is statistically significant (P£0.001). The mean time elapsed between CPR code announcement and the start of CPR protocol in ultimate successful CPRs (the patients discharged) was 1.28 minute against 1.76 min for total of unsuccessful CPRs (P£0.001).Conclusion: This study showed that seconds of delay in starting CPR operations reduce the success rate and that the basic CPR should be started as soon as possible within the first 4 minutes followed by advanced CPR. So, reducing the delay time may lead to better outcome. This study also showed that there is a statistically significant relationship between delay time and outcome of CPR.

Background and Aim: Privacy is a major human need and is being considered as the cornerstone of medical care. Nurses, because of the specific nature of their profession, have a substantial role in meeting the patients need for privacy. The aim of this study was to compare viewpoints of patients and nurses about respecting patient's privacy during nursing care. Material and Method: In this descriptive comparative study, all nurses working) in three hospitals affiliated to Tabriz University of Medical Science (n= 109) and 161 patients from these hospitals were selected. The data was collected by a single questionnaire was prepared in two forms for either the patients or the nurses. First section of questionnaire consisted of the demographic data of the nurses and patients and the second section measured their viewpoints about respecting patients' privacy during nursing care.Results: The results showed that there was statistically significant difference between nurses' (Mean = 33.06) and patients' (Mean = 27.05) viewpoints about respecting patient's privacy (P< 0.001). Furthermore, there was a positive powerful correlation between the days of hospitalization (P<0.001) and the needs of patients for nursing care (P= 0.019) with the patients' viewpoint about respecting to their privacy during nursing care. Also, there was a negative powerful correlation between the perception of patients regarding their health (P<0.001) and the patients' viewpoint of respecting to their privacy during nursing care.Conclusion: This research showed that there were some differences between nurses and patients viewpoint about respecting the patients privacy. Furthermore, the results showed that when the patients need further nursing care, have worse health status or increase in hospitalization day, the patient's viewpoint about respecting to their privacy during nursing care increases. This may indicate that the interaction of the patient with nursing stuff may improve their viewpoint about respecting to privacy.

Background and Aim: The pain of the intravenous cannulation is considered as the major limitation in pediatric clinical care. Reducing the pain of intravenous cannulation has been the motive for many investigations. In the present study, the effect of two methods for reducing the pain of intravenous cannulation in children was compared.Material and Method: Ninety children between 6-12 years old who admitted in the pediatric ward were selected and randomly allocated to either Emla cream group, music distraction group or control group in equal numbers. The pains of the children were assessed by Wong pain face scale and also, general behaviors of the samples were evaluated by the researcher.Results: Mean pain score in the Emla cream group was significantly lesser than the music and the control groups (1.36 against 3.5 and 3.56, respectively; P< 0.001), but, there was no statistically significant difference between the control and music distraction groups. Sex, age and other variables had no effect on pain sensation during cannulation. In Emla cream group, the mean pain score were significantly lower in older children (over 10 years). Conclusion: This study showed that Emla cream can significantly reduce the pain of intravenous cannulation in children, especially in older ones. The researchers recommend the use of Emla cream one hour before intravenous cannulation in children.

Background and Aim: Although family caregiving is an essential part of health care systems, there is not any qualitative research about the nature of family caregiving process of Iranian frail elderly at home. The present study is part of a larger study about family care giving process with the aim of determining facilitators and barriers to this process.Material and Method: In this grounded theory study, according to Strauss and Corbin's approach (1998), 14 family caregivers participated and data was gathered by in-depth semi structured interviews and observation in the field and documentary movies. All of the interviews and data were transcribed and analyzed through open, axial and selective coding. Some triangulation techniques as Gathering data through different methods, prolonged engagement with caregivers, member check by participants and experts, were used to increase rigor of the study.Results: Findings of this study indicate there are 2 main categories consisting facilitator and hindering factors in the process under study. Available family assistant, care giving knowledge, familial support, and background of interpersonal relationship between care giver-receiver, personal characteristics and financial status of caregiver and care recipient were subcategories of facilitating factors category. Absence of family participation, insufficient caregiving knowledge, caregiving burden, inappropriate caregiving context, absence of appropriate health care system and formal governmental support were subcategories of hindering factors. Conclusion: Modifying facilitator and hindering factors by improvement of other family members' participation and assistance, support of the caregiver by other family member, improvement of caregiving knowledge, providing facilities and establishing appropriate health care, wellbeing and social security policies not only for caregiver but also for care recipient would be effective in the management of the process by caregivers.

Background and Aim: Skin disinfection is an effective method of preventing surgical site infection (SSI), but there is controversy about the duration of skin preparation. Therefore this study was conducted to determine the effect of duration of skin preparation on skin microbial flora in orthopedic patients admitted to Hamadan Mobasher hospital.Material and method: This randomized clinical trial study was performed on 46 patients that underwent orthopedic surgery. For data collection, a checklist was used and microbial culture results also were considered. Four skin cultures were obtained, the first sample was collected before skin preparation and the others were collected 2, 5and 10 minute after beginning of skin preparation, respectively, from surgical site. Samples were examined for total colony forming units (CFU) and kind of aerobic bacterial flora.Results: The findings showed a statistically significant relationship between mean skin bacterial CFU and duration of skin preparation (P<0.01), except for comparison between the fifth and tenth minute skin preparation (P= 0.057). Exact binomial test showed there was statistically significant decrease in the kind of skin bacterial flora with increasing in duration of skin preparation (P<0.05), but there was no growth for diphtheroid in the fifth minute and for other bacteria, in the tenth minute.Conclusion: According to the findings, it is enough to disinfect surgical site with %7.5 povidon iodine for 5 minutes to diminish skin bacterial count in surgical patient.

Background and Aim: Nowadays, the role of regular and continuous physical activity in reducing the risk of coronary heart disease, various cancers, obesity, osteoporosis and other health problems has been widely recognized. Physical inactivity as a modifiable risk factor for a number of diseases has become a key public health concern. Many investigations have showed that physical activity levels fall significantly during the young adult period, and there is increasing concern about youth physical activity. Physical activity of the university students, as an important sector of young adults and society from which would-be policy makers and teachers will be drawn, are of particular interest. The present study was carried out to compare physical activity status among students of medical and non-medical universities of Tabriz.Material and Method: A descriptive comparative design was used with 384 medical and 384 non-medical university students. Demographic data and physical activity variables were collected by a self reported questionnaire. Independent sample t-test were used to compare mean scores of physical activity between two groups of students, and two-way ANOVA test were used to determine the relationship between students' socio-demographic variables and physical activity.Results: The findings showed that 39.84% of medical and 37.24% of non-medical university students had risky physical activity status and only 6.51% of medical and 5.99% of non-medical university students had appropriate physical activity status. There was no statistically significant difference between mean scores of physical activity of two groups. Also, 81.3% of medical and 85.2% of non-medical university students desired to increase the level of their physical activity. Conclusion: Although the majority of both medical and non-medical students had inactivity style, there was desire to increase physical activity level. It is necessary that the university policy makers provide programs to aware the students about inactivity risks, establish motivation and allocate possibilities for increasing the students' physical activity levels. Modifying attitude and practice toward physical activity and physical exercise in university students, especially in medical university students as the community health messengers, is crucial in promotion of mobility and physical exercise of community.

Background and Aim: Migraine is the most common primary headache syndrome with no specific pathologic reason affecting physical, mental and social aspects of quality of life and reduces health-related quality of life (HRQOL). Migraine is the most noticeable medical issue in women's health, since it is more prevalent among them during the reproductive years between the ages of 25 and 55 years. The low frequency of organic causes for and the increasing prevalence of headache suggest individual and environmental factors. The aim of this study is to investigate the associations between migraine headache and lifestyle in women. Material and Method: This is a case-control study on 170 subjects aged 18-50 years randomly selected by Poisson sampling from population of women with headache referring to neurology clinics of Al-zahra and Nour hospitals affiliated to Isfahan University of Medical Sciences with an absolute diagnosis of migraine by neurologist based on the criteria of the International Headache Society .The control group comprised of all women with no migraine having identical inclusion criteria with the study subjects. The data were collected by interviews with a researcher designed questionnaire. The questionnaire was used after the scientific validity and reliability had been confirmed by content validity and Test-retest, respectively. Descriptive and analytical statistical tests (independent t test, Chi-square test and Fisher exact test) were used to analyze the data. Results: The findings showed that there was a statistically significant association between some dimensions of lifestyle such as nutrition status and food habits (P£0.001), sleep and rest pattern (P 0.012), medication habit pattern (P£0.001) with migraine. Meanwhile, there was no statistically significant association between smoking, physical activity and sport pattern and the level of exposure to life stressors with moraine. The result of the study is in line with some findings of other investigations suggesting that some lifestyle factors probably play a role as migraine precipitating factor.Conclusion: According to the results, for preventing of the attack onset and minimizing side effects of drug abuse, it's necessary to pay more attention to the importance of change and modification of lifestyle in migraine patients and to consider the assessment of lifestyle and health behavior as priorities of health care.

Background and Aim: One of the most important functions of nurses, which require preparation and powerful scientific background, skill in decision making and careful attention to drug laws is administration of the drugs to the patients. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the knowledge and practice of the student nurses about drugs by OSCE method at the end of the third year of their education.Material and Method: In this cross- sectional study, 48 student nurses (45 females and 3 males), with a mean age of 21 years took part in a theoretical exam and 36 of them participated also in a practical exam. A demographic questionnaire including personal details, Over Time working (OT), the usage pharmacological sources and the level of encountering different pharmacological methods was used to collect data. Then, a theoretical exam, covering the whole drugs the subjects had learnt during 6 semesters, was taken and after that, 9 routes of drug administration (Suppository, NG tube, PO, SQ, IV, IM, ID, Topical and inhalation) were examined by OSCE Method in 2 consecutive days. The scores were given based on the drug administration check list.Results: The findings showed that encountering students with different routes of drug administration were; Topical =93.7%, Inhalation=31.25%, SUPP =43.75%, NG= 98%, ID=6.26%, SQ= 98%, IV = 100%, PO=100% and IM=100%.The mean score of theoretical and practical exam were 49.02 and 63.8, respectively. A correlation of 0.32 was obtained between scores of theoretical and practical exam.Conclusion: Since drugs administration requires both pharmacological information and practical skills, special attention should be paid to the theoretical and practical education of student nurses.