Nursing And Midwifery Journal
Year:2011 | Volume:9 | Issue:1 (30)|Papers Count:10

Background & Aims: Clinical aromatherapy is the use of aromatic oils to treat or relieve some physical and mental disorders which has been accepted as holistic nursing care. We aimed to present some effects of aromatherapy that have been proven through various studies. Materials & Methods: This was a review study. In order to access relevant articles and studies, valid internet databases were searched and finally fifty six articles were selected for this paper.Results: Effects of aromatherapy are: reducing pregnancy complications, relieving pain, improving side effects of cancer’s treatments, wound healing, skin and hair problems, controlling epileptic attacks, reducing respiratory difficulties, antispasmodic effects, and reducing stress and agitation.Conclusion: Using complementary therapies such as aromatherapy is one of the goals of nursing. Learning about the effects of aromatherapy, as one of the commonest and safest complementary therapies, leads to achieve holistic nursing care. Although different studies have shown positive effects of aromatherapy in diverse clinical settings, however; nursing society needs more researches in the field of aromatherapy.

Background &Aims: Hospitalization for parents and children causes anxiety. Therefore, evaluation of parents' satisfaction concerning their child's nursing care is necessary. Observing parental satisfaction is important in determining the quality of child care. The purpose of this study was to determine parental satisfaction with hospitalized children’s health care. Materials & Methods: The descriptive study covered 60 parents of thalassemic children in three hospitals of east Gilan. Data were gathered by a questioner on demographic characteristics and another questioner investigating the parents' satisfaction rate in six areas of health care information, family participation, communication, clinical skills, overall satisfaction, and emotional needs. The analysis of the data was carried out by SPSS.Results: The findings revealed that 10.3% of parents were satisfied with the health care. There was a significant relationship between parents’ age, education level, child’s history of hospitalization, and health care satisfaction.Conclusion: In order to increase client's satisfaction of hospital services more effort is required.

Background & Aims: The fact that managers are planners of health care system plays an important role in the development of health care and treatment, so it is essential to motivate them. This study was aimed to review the factors affecting job motivation from the managers’ point of view in teaching hospitals affiliated to Urmia University of Medical Sciences in 2009.Materials & Methods: This descriptive-cross sectional study was conducted on nursing, administrative and executive managers in teaching hospitals. The data were collected by a valid and reliable questionnaire, consisting of demographic information and asked about psychological, welfare, and physical factors.Non-parametric test of Kruskal-Wallis was used to determine the independent or dependent variables. The data were analyzed by SPSS software.Results: Psychological, welfare, and physical factors were 84.20%, 71.42%, 66.66% respectively. There was no significant difference between the factors affecting job motivation factors (physical, psychological, and welfare), and demographic characteristics of managers.Conclusion: According to the findings, psychological factors have the most critical role in job motivation. Since psychological factors are inexpensive and have long-term effects, it is very important to have priority in motivating managers.

Background & Aims: Smoking as a health risk behavior endangers not only the individual but also community health and is one of the preventable causes of death. This risk behavior is growing among educated young people. This study was aimed to investigate effective factors leading to smoking based on BASNEF Model in male students in Tehran Medical Sciences University in 2009.Materials & Methods: This descriptive analytical study was performed on 200 male students that were selected by snowball sampling method. The data were collected using a questionnaires based on BASNEF Model. The data were analyzed by Chi-square tests, and Pearson correlation coefficient.Results: The survey results showed that the most frequent causes of smoking were easy access to cigarettes (80%) and peers smoking (82%). Considering the attitude of the samples 33.5% had a positive, 19.5% neutral and 47% had a negative attitude toward smoking. There was a significant association between positive attitude to smoking and students’ years of study or parental education. There also was a significant relationship between age at onset of smoking with either parents or peers smoking. There was a relationship between low price cigarettes and the number of cigarettes smoked per day. The average number of cigarettes smoked per day and students age and cigar costs per month showed a positive correlation.Conclusion: The importance of attitudes, subjective norms, and factors affecting smoking are highlighted in the study and health officials must urge to pursue structural interventions to prevent them.

Background & Aims: Antenatal maternal anxiety is common during pregnancy and may have side effects on mother and neonate. The aim of this study was to evaluate the relationship between maternal anxiety and neonatal outcomes in nulliparous women.Materials & Methods: In this analytical prospective study 156 pregnant women were studied in Qom health care centers. Anxiety was assessed using a self-administered Spielberger's state-trait anxiety questionnaire (STAI) at 28th and 38th weeks of pregnancy. Then time of delivery, height and head circumference of neonates, fetal growth restriction, respiratory distress, low birth weight and Apgar score of neonates were obtained from the women’s clinical records. The data were analyzed using logistic regression test, Chi-square, and Fisher exact.Results: The findings indicate that there is no significant relationship between the rate of fetal growth restriction, preterm labor and low Apgar score at the 28th and 38th weeks of pregnancy in anxious and non anxious women (P>0.05).Conclusion: The results of this study revealed that anxiety does not directly affect the health of a baby. Finally, anxiety during pregnancy is an independent risk factor that may affect pregnancy outcomes.

Background & Aims: Nowadays, women's participation in society has increased. In spite of having a lot of responsibilities at home such as parenting and housekeeping, they work outside the home. Mental health of woman has an important role in fulfilling the responsibilities. This study was aimed to investigate the mental health and life expectancy of employed and unemployed women.Materials & Methods: In this study, 397 employed women and 391 unemployed women were randomly selected from the west Azarbaijan. Then the women filled mental health and life expectancy questioner.Result: Results of t-test revealed that there is no significant difference between life expectancy, anxiety, and somatic symptoms of employed and unemployed women, but there is a significant difference between social function of employed and unemployed women.Conclusion: According to the results, special attention must be given to the needs of women.

Background & Aims: Streptokinase is one of the most useful drugs in acute myocardial infarction. Researches show that timely given injection of streptokinase decreases total mortality. Allergic reaction and bleeding are possible side effects. This research was aimed to determine the adverse reactions of streptokinase in patients with or without hydrocortisone-injection in Ramsar and Tonekabon hospitals in 2007-2008.Materials & Methods: In this quasi-experimental study simple random sampling method was used in CCU wards in Ramsar's Imam Sajjad and Tonkabone Shahid Rajaei hospitals. The patients were divided in two groups (those using and not using hydrocortisone). The data were collected with a demographic questionnaire and a check list. Descriptive- analytical statistics (chi-square) were used and the data were analyzed by SPSS software and.Results: The findings showed in groups using hydrocortisone, fever and chill was %3.33, fever 3.33%, chill 1.67%, vomiting, nausea, chill 1.67%, and PVC 53.3%. In the group not using hydrocortisone chill was 5%, fever 5%, and PVC 50%. There was no significant association between side effects with dependent variable.Conclusion: There was no significant difference in side effects between the group using the hydrocortisone and the other group. Considering serious side effects that may be happen after streptokinase injection, it is necessary to have regular check-ups.

Background & Aims: Mental health of woman affects the society and family health. Special attention should be to improve mental health methods. One of the methods is aerobic exercise. This study was aimed to investigate the effectiveness of aerobic exercises on mental health of women.Materials & Methods: In this study 36 women completed general health questionnaire then they were divided into two groups of experimental and control. The experimental group did aerobic exercises for 10 weeks. At the end both groups filled the questionnaire again.Results: The findings revealed a significant mental health improvement in the experimental group. Reports made by women confirmed the results.Conclusion: Considering the positive effects of aerobic exercises on mental health, it is recommended to pay special attention to doing exercises in everyday life.