Iran Journal of Nursing
Year:2011 | Volume:24 | Issue:69|Papers Count:9

Background and aim: society is the living context of adolescents’ health and includes social constitutions.Adolescents as an important social group experience many disturbances because of the characteristics of current society and special features of adolescence. The life style and habits of adolescence sometime lasts until death; so the resulted problems would affect all the life.Material & Method: A qualitative content analysis has been used. Open semi structured Interviews were conducted until data saturation. Result: These three categories have been emerged: the semiology of an unhealthy society, adolescents’ expectations from the society, social health prerequisites.Discussion: Both the adolescents and their health are affected by the essential role of social predisposing factors. To develop the social aspect of adolescents’ health is necessary. The social aspect of health which is related to the family, employment, welfare and communications could be useful in a healthy foundation of the future.Conclusion: Understanding adolescents’ perspectives is not only important but is useful for maintaining a healthy society. Therefore, families, teachers, health workers and policy makers should develop prevention and intervention programs based on adolescence developmental processes especially tending to social factors.

Background and Aims: Critical thinking is essential to nursing practice; therefore, knowledge and understanding of nursing students' critical thinking is important to nurse educators. The purpose of this study was to determine critical thinking dispositions in baccalaureate nursing students.Material and methods: It was a descriptive study. Research population was all baccalaurate nursing students in third and fourth year in Azad and Shahid Sadooghi University of Medical Sciences and were studying in second trimester of 2007-2008. The sample included 170 students and recruited randomly. Data was collected by questionnaire and had two parts. The first part included demographics and the second part was the California Critical Thinking Disposition Inventory. Results: It revealed that 81.8% of students' critical thinking disposition were ambivalent and inqisitiveness subscale in 57.6%, analyticity in 62.4% and self confidence in 51.8% were positive and open-indedness in 76.5%, systematicity in 80.6%, maturity in 65.3% were ambivalent, truth seeking subscale in 67.1% was negative.Conclusion: regarding the findings which indicated critical thinking of baccalaureate nursing students is ambivalent, using special strategies to improve critical thinking disposition is emphasized.

Background and aims: more than one third of Iran’s population is under 18 and prevalence of aggression in this group is high Because of the important role of adolescents as the architects of the future of countries, aggression should be considered as a very serious matter as it can adversely affects their physical and mental health.The aim of this study was to determine the effect of anger management training in groups on aggression of 12-15 years old male students.Material and Methods: This study is a semi-experimental research and 60 male students, aged between 12 and 15 years old were selected based on multi-stage random sampling. Measurement tools of the research included: demographic data questionnaire and Eyscenk aggression questionnaire. The resulted data were analyzed by means of SPSS software.Results: The comparison of mean aggression between both groups before and after intervention using independent T test showed that immediately after intervention a significant statistical difference appears between two groups (p=0.000). There were also correlations between aggression and many of demographics.Conclusion: The findings of this study indicates that anger management training in groups has an impact on the aggression of 12-15 years old male students and this intervention could by applied in other situations dealing with adolescents.

Background and Aims: The prevalence of overweight and obesity among children has dramatically increased in many developing countries. Childhood obesity affects various aspects of life, including academic achievement, social skills, quality of life and social competency.The purpose of this paper is to investigate the level of activity, school and social competency in obese and overweight children of elementary girls’ schools in Tabriz city.Material and Methods: This research is a comparative-cross sectional study.The sample was 300 students (7-11 years old) of girls elementary schools in Tabriz city, selected based on educational class grade and Body Mass Index (BMI) by random sampling in three groups including normal, overwieght and obese groups. Data were collected by Child Behavior Check List that has a 20 iteams for assessing the activity, school and social competency of children in home, school and society. Data was analyzed by SPSS-Pc.Results: The results showed that normal group had greater scores on activity, social, school and total competence than overweight and obese groups, it means that normal group had a favorite level of competency than others groups. The results proposed reverse correlation between BMI and school and total competency (P<0.05). Howeve, BMI had not significant correlation with activity and social competency.Conclusion: The findings of this study indicated reversed correlation between BMI, school and total competency. So, prevention of obesity can prevent or decrease children's competency problems.

Background and Aims: Effective steps towards prevention of dissatisfaction and promotion of care could be operationalized by assessing consumers’ satisfaction and studying the reasons of their dissatisfaction. Regarding the special needs of ostomy patients this study has been done with the aim of determining the ostomy patient’s satisfaction with nursing care.Materials and Methods: In this cross-sectional study, 300 ostomy patients were recruited by convenience sampling from Educational Hospitals of Iran, Tehran & Shahied Beheshti University. Data was collected by Modified Quality from Patient perspective and was analyzed using SPSS-PC.Results: The mean for Items related to respect by nurse during care, good relationship during information giving, and information regarding bathing with ostomy were respectively high. The mean for items of information related to ostomy association, types of appliances and how to provide them and provision of time to talk to patients were respectively low.Conclusion: although total satisfaction with ostomy nursing care was high, but some aspects of nursing care should be revised to promote satisfaction with care.

Background and Aims: Cancer occurs when cells divide uncontrollably. These abnormal cells can invade nearby tissues or travel to distant sites by entering the bloodstream or lymphatic system. Incidence rate of cancer during the last 50 years has increased constantly. Nutrition, physical activity and hope are important factors in cancer. However, patients do not have correct knowledge and proper attitude regarding these important factors.The aim of this study is performance assessment of basnef model in health promotion for pations with cancer in Sanandaj city.Material & Methods: This study is a randomized controlled trial. Knowledge and attitude questionnaires in basnef model and HHI questionnaire was completed before and after intervention in two case and control groups (n: 50) and knowledge and attitude questionnaire in patients family in two case and control groups (n: 50). The educational and promotional intervention for patients and their families in case groups as a face to face method and individually with PBL method was accomplished. Data was analyzed by use of spss and Chi-square tests and covariance analysis.Results: The mean score for knowledge in case group patients was significantly more than controls group (P<o.ooo). Intervention also resulted in better attitude in case group patient (P<0.000). A significant difference was not found in subjective norms mean score (P<0.12) and enabling factors (P<0.08) in two groups. The hope mean scores in case group patients was significantly more than control group (P<0.008). The knowledge mean scores also in family case group was more than control group family (P<0.001) and intervention resulted in better attitude situation in case group family (P<0.000).Conclusions: Educational intervention is effective in increasing knowledge and improvement of attitude and also promotion of hope in cancer patients and their families. So preper educational methods (e.g. PBL), with active participation of patients and families to promote quality of life is recommended.

Background and Aims: In recent decades reduction in physical activity had become as one of important factors in increasing obesity in all people especially in adolescents. The aim of this study was to determine relationship between physical activity and triceps skin Fold Thickness in adolescent girls.Material and Method: It was an anticipational correlational study. Three hundred eighty five girls in high school were selected randomly. They neither had known physical/mental diseases, nor were engaged in sport teams.They also had not special diets. Data collection was done by IPAQ (short form) and caliper. Analysis was done by ANOVA, Chi square, and Spearman correlation using SPSS-PC.Results: Data indicated that almost half of student had low physical activity and according to triceps skin fold thickness they were included in over weight and obess group. However, no significant correlation was seen between physical activity and skin fold thickness.Conclusion: Although there was no correlation between Physical activity and obesity, but systematic programs to enhance adolescent’s activity and to promote their health could be commended.

Background and Aims: Health workers are threatened by injuries caused by the insertion of sharp medical devices (Needle Stick Injury) contaminated with patients' َ blood and body fluids. The purpose of this study was to explore the effect of a multimedia training program on the incidence of occupational exposure of nurses to contaminated sharp tools in a university hospital in 2009.Material and Methods: In an experimental study, 120 volunteer nurses, working in a university hospital was randomly assigned to either experimental group or control group. The experimental group received a multimedia training program for prevention of exposure during two weeks but the control group did not receive any training. All subjects completed the occupational exposure and knowledge questionnaires during 4 months before and 4 months after intervention. After data collection, mean standard deviation, paired t-test and chi-square were used for data analysis. Significant level of P<0.05 was accepted.Results: in the experimental group, the incidence of occupational exposure to contaminated sharp tools decreased (p<0.05) but in the control group, this change was not significant (p>0.05). Also the mean score for knowledge in the experimental group improved significantly from 8.05 to 14.1 (p<0.05) but the increase in the mean score of knowledge in control group from 8.30 to 8.98 (p=0.33) was not significant.Conclusion: The knowledge and performance of the experimental group regarding occupational exposure to contaminated sharp tools improved. Continuous education is recommended.