Journal of Health And Care
Year:2022 | Volume:24 | Issue:1|Papers Count:7

Background & aim: Job satisfaction of nurses, as the main body of patient service providers, is of great importance which increases a person's commitment to the job, creativity, efficiency and improves the quality of services. Therefore, the aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between clinical competence and job satisfaction in nurses of Ardabil university of medical sciences. Methods: This cross-sectional descriptive correlational study was performed on 353 nurses of teaching hospitals of Ardabil University of medical sciences. The samples were selected through multi-stage random sampling. Data collection tools included demographic information questionnaire, Minnesota job satisfaction questionnaire and banner clinical competency. Data were analyzed using SPSS 22 software and T-test, Pearson correlation coefficient and regression analysis. Data were analyzed using SPSS-22 software and T-test, Pearson correlation coefficient and regression analysis. Results: The results of Pearson correlation test showed that there was no significant correlation between clinical competence and job satisfaction (p=0. 07). There was a statistically significant relationship between education and guidance and diagnostic practices with job satisfaction among the areas of clinical competence (p=0. 001, r=0. 88). The results of multiple regression showed that only the domain of diagnostic practices had a significant effect in predicting job satisfaction (p=0. 001, r=0. 18) and other domains of clinical competence had no significant effect. Conclusion: The clinical competence and job satisfaction of most nurses were assessed in moderate level. It is necessary for managers to pay more attention to empower and acquire the necessary qualifications of nurses in order to improve the job satisfaction of nurses, which has a direct impact on the quality of nursing care.

Background & aim: Nosocomial infections occur as a result of the patient staying in the hospital and it is one of the most important social, economic and medical problems in different countries. The health care team especially nurses have an important role in the control of HAI. The purpose of this study was to compare the knowledge, attitude and function of nurses and nursing students about HAI control in Sarab`s Imam Khomeini medical education center. Methods: This descriptive cross-sectional study was performed on 135 nurses and 135 nursing students in Sarab`s Imam Khomeini medical education center at 2020 who were selected with available sampling. The data collection tool was a researcher-made questionnaire for assessing awareness, attitude and function of the target community regarding the control of hospital infections. The collected data were analyzed using SPSS 19 software and descriptive statistical methods such as mean and standard deviation and inferential methods including t-test, Spearman correlation coefficient and Analysis of variance. Results: The mean scores of knowledges of nurses (9. 6±, 3. 51) were higher than students (9. 1±, 4. 10) and both were at a weak level. Also, the average scores of attitudes (41. 32±, 6. 52) and function (46. 53±, 2. 99) of nurses were higher than the mean scores of students' attitude (39. 70±, 5. 79) and function (43. 83±, 2. 57), indicating the average attitude and function of students and nurses. Conclusion: Due to the importance of controlling nosocomial infections, in addition to educating nurses in the form of in-service training programs during the study period, more focus should be placed on teaching topics related to compliance with nosocomial infection standards.

Background & aim: Marital commitment is the strongest and most stable factor predicting the quality and stability of married life. The aim of this study was to investigate the role of flourishing, self-compassion and cognitive emotion regulation strategies in predicting marital commitment in nurses. Methods: This was a descriptive and correlational study. The statistical population included the nurses working in Imam Reza Hospital in Kermanshah in 1400, among them 210 nurses were selected by available sampling method. Participants completed the Adams, Jones questionnaire of marital commitment, Biswas-Diener questionnaire of flourishing, Neff questionnaire of Self-Compassion and Garnefski et al questionnaire of cognitive emotion regulation. The research data were analyzed using SPSS-25 through descriptive statistics (mean and standard deviation) and Inferential statistics (Pearson correlation, canonical correlation analysis (CCA) and multiple regression methods) Results: CCA results indicated that there was a significant correlation between the marital commitment and variables of flourishing, self-compassion and cognitive emotion regulation strategies in the nurses (p<0. 001). Also, results of regression analysis revealed that 28% of the variance of the marital commitment variable could be predicted by predictor variables of flourishing, self-compassion and cognitive emotion regulation strategies. Conclusion: It can be said that flourishing, self-compassion and cognitive emotion regulation strategies play a role in increasing marital commitment. Therefore, marital commitment can be increased by improving flourishing, self-compassion and teaching cognitive emotion regulation strategies.

Background & aim: With the emergence of the Covid-19 disease and its effects, education shifted to distance and virtual education. Discovering students' satisfaction toward virtual education helps educational planners achieve more effective virtual education. On the other hand, students' academic performance is one of the criteria for the efficiency of the educational system, and poor academic performance results in wasting time, cost, and resources of educational centers. Therefore, this study aimed to determine Satisfaction rate with Virtual Education Programs during COVID-19 Pandemic and Its Relationship with Their Academic Performance among nursing students Methods: This descriptive Correlational study was conducted in Urmia nursing and midwifery school in 2020-2021. Two hundred twenty-three nursing students in the 2nd-7th semesters were enrolled in the study through a census sampling. The data were collected by using of demographic characteristics form,the students' satisfaction and the students' Academic Performance Questionnaire. The collected data were analyzed using SPSS software (version22). Descriptive (absolute frequency, mean, standard deviation, and frequency distribution percentage) and analytical (Kolmogorov-Smirnov, Spearman correlation coefficient, Pearson correlation coefficient, Phi and Cramer's V correlation coefficient, linear regression, and Mann-Whitney) statistics were used to analyze the data. Results: The mean scores of students' satisfaction and academic performance were 149. 65±, 16. 21 and 74. 35±, 22. 94, respectively. Therefore, the students' satisfaction and academic performance were moderate (73. 1%) and good (64. 6%), respectively. The result showed that, there was a significant positive relationship between the students' satisfaction level and their academic performance (p<0. 05, r=0. 19), so that students' satisfaction level was a predictor of their academic performance (p=0. 001). Conclusion: Undergraduate nursing students had moderate satisfaction levels and high academic performance in online educational courses. The students' satisfaction level was positive, and it is a significant predictor of their academic performance. Thus, university officials were recommended to increase students' academic performance by gaining their satisfaction through improving conditions and eliminating the students existing problems in order to benefit from virtual education and face-toface training in combination.

Background & aim: Loneliness is a common experience in people with MS that is associated with significant psychological consequences. Therefore, it is important to check the psychosocial status of people with MS patients. Accordingly, the aim of the present study was to investigate the mediating role of social loneliness in the relationship between self-compassion and psychological well-being. Methods: For this descriptive-correlational study, 220 patients with MS were selected by a convenience sampling method. Data were collected by using Psychological Well-Being Scales of Ryff's (PWB), Self-compassion Scale (SCS), and social loneliness (SLS). Finally, Data were analyzed by Pearson correlation and Structural Equation Model using SPSS software version 23 and AMOS version 24. Results: The results showed that the self-Compassion had a significant positive correlation with psychological well-being (r=0. 66, p<0. 01) and a significant negative correlation with social loneliness (r=-0. 63, p<0. 01). Also, There was a significant negative correlation between feelings of social loneliness with well-being psychological (r=-0. 69, p<0. 01). The indirect effect and the effect of total self-Compassion on psychological well-being were 0. 26 and 0. 86, respectively, Conclusion: The results showed that the feeling of social loneliness plays a mediating role in the relationship between self-compassion and psychological well-being. Therefore, it is possible to improve the psychological well-being of people with multiple sclerosis by improving social relationships.

Background & aim: Among the negative consequences of the Covid-19 disease among adolescent family members is the creation of educational adjustment problems and health anxiety. Therefore, the present study was conducted with the aim of determining the effect of the Gross model emotion regulation intervention on educational adaptation and health anxiety of adolescents with families affected by Covid-19. Methods: The research was a quasi-experimental design with pre-test and post-test and control groups and the statistical population included adolescents aged 13 to 18 years living in Naghadeh who had a person with Covid-19 in their family in 2021. The statistical sample size was 40 people (20 in the experimental group and 20 in the control group) from the statistical population who were selected by available sampling method and randomly placed in the control and experimental groups. For the experimental group, 8 sessions of 90-minute emotion regulation sessions based on the Gross model were performed and the control group did not receive any treatment. The data were collected using Sinha and Singh's (1993) Educational Adaptation Questionnaire and Salkoskis et al. 's (2002) Short Health Anxiety Questionnaire and were analyzed by multivariate analysis of covariance using SPSS version 26 software. Results: The average scores of educational adaptation in the stages before and after the intervention in the experimental group were 40. 10 and 28. 30, respectively, and in the control group, 39. 75 and 39. 93, respectively. Also, the average scores of health anxiety in the stages before and after the intervention in the experimental group were 43. 30 and 32. 15, respectively, and in the control group, 44. 15 and 45. 50, respectively. The results of covariance analysis showed that the mean of educational adaptation and health anxiety in the experimental group, after the emotion regulation intervention, has decreased significantly compared to the control group (p<0. 01). Conclusion: The results of this research indicate that the emotion regulation intervention has significantly improved educational adaptation and reduced health anxiety, so the use of this intervention is recommended for adolescents with families affected by Covid-19.

Background & aim: Tabriz is the pole of developmental care in Iran and family-centered care is implemented in neonatal intensive care units. However, detailed information about the amount of received family-centered care by mothers is not available. Therefore, the aim of this study was to determine the perception of Preterm Infant Mothers from Receiving Family-Centered Care in Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. Methods: The present study is a descriptive cross-sectional study that was performed on 150 mothers of premature infants admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit of Tabriz hospitals in 1400. Data were collected using tool of parental perception of family-centered care (PFCCP) in the neonatal intensive care unit. Data were analyzed using SPSS software version 21 and Pearson correlation, chi-square and regression tests. Statisticaly significance was considered at p<0. 05. Result: The results showed that in the dimensions of family-centered care, mothers gave the most score to the dimension of respect and the least to the dimension of support. Also, the mean score of mothers on receiving family-oriented care was 2. 14±, 0. 19. In this study, there was no significant relationship between mothers' perceptions of receiving family-centered care and their demographic characteristics. Conclusion: The results of the present study showed that despite the policy in neonatal intensive care units based on the implementation of family-centered care, mothers do not have a perfect perception of receiving these services, so there is a need for basic changes in the structures, human resources, and policies of hospitals.