Avicenna Journal of Nursing and Midwifery Care
Year:2013 | Volume:20 | Issue:3 (39)|Papers Count:9

Introduction & Objective: The most common causes of inflammation of conjunectiva are bacterial and viral infections. Because of the antimicrobial quality of black tea, the aim of this study is to compare the effects of brewed black tea with boiled water as adjunct treatments on infants' conjunectivitis.Materials & Methods: This is a randomized control clinical trial study that was carried out on110 infants referred to Pediatric Clinic of Amir Kabir Hospital in Arak on 2011. The subjects were randomized into 2 groups of intervention (receiving brewed black tea plus antibiotics) and control (receiving boiled water add antibiotics). The severity of conjunectivitis and duration of treatment were determined in both groups at first, third and seventh days of treatment and compared with each other.Results: At the first day there wasn’t seen any significant difference between the groups, in terms of the severity of conjunctivitis. At the 3rd day 74.5 % of infants in the intervention group and 18.2 % of infants in the control group had been cured which showed a statistically meaningful difference (P=0.001). 100% of infants in the intervention group and 32.7% of them in the control group had been cured at the seventh day (P=0.001).Conclusion: Becausebrewed black tea plus antibiotics decreased the severity of infants' conjunctivitis and reduced duration of treatment, it is suggested to be used as an adjunct treatment in the case of infants' conjunctivitis.

Introduction & Objective: It is important to assess mental health in elder people in order to detect any mental health problem among them. The aim of this study was to determine the condition of mental health and health promoting behaviors among elder people in Hamadan.Materials & Methods: This was a cross-sectional study. By multistage sampling method, 400 participants over 60 years old were selected randomly. Data-gathering device was a questionnaire with 2-parts of General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-28) used to measure mental health condition and a check-list for measuring health promoting behaviors. Descriptive statistics (mean, variance and percentage) and One-way analysis of variance and t-test were used to compare average rate of psychical health in subjects.Results: According to the cut off point of GHQ-28 that was 23, respondents were divided into psychiatrically deranged ones (42%, n = 168) and noncases (58%, n = 232). There was seen a statistically significant difference in mental health condition based on gender, education level, economic status, marriage status and family structure (P<0.001). Also the results showed that there was statistically significant relationship between mental health and smoking, doing exercise, drinking alcohol, eating fruit and vegetable, physical health condition and controlling blood pressure (P<0.05).Conclusion: Regarding the results of this study and because of the specific needs of elders, their mental health can be threated easily. Due to the relationship between mental health and health promoting behaviors, authorities are recommended to identify the psychological factors, both facilitating and prohibiting factors, associated with these behaviors.

Introduction & Objective: Self-care is one of the most important factors in controlling diabetes. Sometimes self-care is not possible due to certain barriers which inhibit the patient’s role in controlling the disease. This study aims to identify the barriers against self-care in diabetic patients and to find their associations with diabetes control.Materials & Methods: The subjects of our study were 225 patients with type II diabetes who were selected randomly. Data gathering devices were demographic and self-care behavior questionnaires with 34 questions about the barriers of self-care behavior scaling from low (1) to high (5). All cases were tested for HbA1c before entering into the study.Results: The findings of this study showed that there are different barriers against self-care behavior including high costs of care/management, busy lifestyle, depressive effect of the treatment, forgetfulness, unawareness of the self-care programs, having no tendency toward the program, unawareness of blood glucose test interpretation and disbelief in self-care results. Among the mentioned barriers, cost of management/care (r=0.24) and depression (r=0.21) had significant associations with higher HbA1c levels.Conclusion: The result of the study indicates that one of the important factors in successful treatment of diabetic patients is to help them to be active in their self-care. Therefore health care team not only should train them to do self-care properly but also they should guide the patients to remove the barriers to reach the best results.

Introduction & Objective: Preoccupation with body image is very common among adolescents. Different factors such as socio-cultural patterns have effects on body image and adolescents’ satisfaction from that. This study was done to determine the relationship between the satisfaction from body image and socio-cultural patterns among female adolescents in Rasht city.Materials & Methods: This descriptive-analytic study was done on 450 female high school adolescents between 15 to 17 years old who were selected based on randomized cluster sampling on 2011 in Rasht. Data was collected using demographic questionnaire, MBSRQ-AS, SATAQ-3 and a balance and a tape measure to determine BMI. Data was analyzed by descriptive and inferential statistics using SPSS 16.Results: Mean scores of satisfaction from body image in the domains of “orientation to the appearance” (49.92±4.85), “appearance evaluation” (23.75±3.82) and “satisfaction from body areas” (36.31±6.33) were high while mean score of satisfaction from “preoccupation with being overweight” (17.27±4.82) was low. There was seen a statistically significant relationship between satisfaction from body image based on BMI and general patterns of the society and athletes (P<0.001).Conclusion: The results of study showed that satisfaction from body image in high school female adolescents of Rasht was high except from the domain of “orientation to the appearance”. It also indicated that the subjects’ satisfaction from their body image was under the influence of BMI index, general patterns of society and athletes. So it is needed to identify the influential factors and provide proper trainings for the adolescents to improve their self confidence and prevent from body image disorders among them.

Introduction & Objective: Today emotional intelligence has an important role in different dimensions of people’s lives. The studiesin this area indicate the importance of emotional intelligence in different aspects of individuals' lives such as education, marriage, employment and social relationships. The aim of this study is to determine the relationship between emotional intelligence, mental health and academic achievement among nursing students.Materials & Methods: In this descriptive cross sectional study, based on census sampling 107 nursing students of Neyshobour university of Medical Sciences participated in the study. The data was collected using demographic questionnaire, emotional intelligence questionnaire of Bar-on and Goldberg general health questionnaire (GHQ-28). The mean score of students was used as an index of academic achievement. Data was analyzed by Pearson's correlation, T test, one way ANOVA and regression using SPSS software.Results: The Results of the study indicated that the mean score of emotional intelligence of students was 74.73±9.05 and the mean score of health was 30.57±10.13. There was seen a significant relationship between emotional intelligence, mental health and academic achievement (P<0.001).Also the results showed there was a significant correlation between some parts of the demographic data, emotional intelligence and academic achievement (P<0.001).Conclusion: In order to improve the academic abilities and success, in addition to general recognition abilities, the students should develop an appropriate progress in aspects such as controlling excitements and emotions. Therefore, it is suggested that emotional intelligence and its promotion among the students to be considered in university curricula.

Introduction & Objective: Visiting is one of the basic needs of patients and their families while they are in coronary care units (CCUs). As the healthcare system moves toward a consumer-driven paradigm, talking about visiting hours has become a controversial and interesting topic. The aim of this research was to determine the effects of programmed visiting on physiological indexes in CCU patients.Materials & Methods: In this quasi-experimental study, 60 patients with acute myocardial infarction were selected through convenience sampling and randomly divided into two groups. Patients in the case group were asked to name those who are more comfortable with and love to be present at the visiting time. Visitors were trained for proper visiting. Data was collected by a questionnaire and Cardiac Monitoring. Physiological indexes (systolic and diastolic blood pressure, mean arterial pressure, heart rate, respiratory rate and oxygen saturation) were assessed 10 minutes before and during visiting, as well as 10 and 30 minutes after visiting. Data was analysed by SPSS software 18.Results: In the case group, the mean scores of physiological indexes (systolic and diastolic blood pressure, mean arterial pressure, heart rate, respiratory rate and oxygen saturation ) 10 minutes before visiting, during visiting and 10 and 30 minutes after visiting were not statistically significant (p>0.05). But the differences were statistically meaningful in the control group (p<0.05).Conclusion: According to this study, presence offamily members and friends in CCU wards based on programmed visiting does not make any significant difference in physiological indexes of the patients, so there is not any reason for restricting visiting patients in CCU.

Introduction & Objective: Stroke is the leading cause of disability in adults and the 6th cause of diseases burden, globally. Different methods such as methods of alternative medicine can help nurses to improve patients’ health. Foot reflexology massage is one of the techniques that can be used. The purpose of this study is to determine the impact of this method on physiological parameters of patients with stroke.Materials & Methods: In this clinical trial study 68 patients with stroke were selected and randomly divided into two groups of intervention (34 patients) and control (34). In the intervention group, foot reflexology massage was performed about 30 minutes for each patient. Data collection devices were a demographic questionnaire and a check list of physiological parameters. Data was analyzed by descriptive statistics and analytic tests such as ANOVA with repeated measurements using spss softwareResults: Repeated measurements showed that during the process of controlling physiological parameters, there was not any statistically significant change in the patients’ temperature, respiration and blood oxygen saturation. But it was found a significant difference in heart rate in both groups (P=0.00).Conclusion: The results of this study demonstrate that foot reflexology massage can be used as a safe, effective and economical nursing intervention to reduce the heart rate in patients with stroke.

Introduction & Objective: Cardiovascular disease as been the most common cause of death and major cause of disability inmost countries and it seems that modifying lifestyle and adhering to medication regimen is essential in these patients. The purpose of this study was to assess the impact of self management intervention son life style modification and medication adherencein cardio vascular patients.Materials & Methods: This study was a quasi-experimental research and 86 patients with cardiovascular disease participated in the study. The samples were selected by convenience sampling in two-stage before and 6 months after the intervention and randomly were held in two groups of case and control. The case group received self management interventions related to healthy lifestyle and long-term medication adherence while the control group received routine interventions of the hospital. Data collecting device was a questionnaire containing questions about demographic information, adherence to the medication regimen and lifestyle. Data was entered and analysed by descriptive statistical tests, paired samples and independent samples t- test using SPSS software version 16.Results: Independent t- test showed that after the intervention, there was a significant difference in the mean scores of adherence to medication regimen (p<0.05) and choosing low-fat diet (p <0.05) in the control and case groups.Conclusion: The results of this study showed that using self-management interventions can be helpful in adhering to medication regimen and changing lifestyle in choosing low fat diet. In patients with cardiovascular diseases whom specialists have desired long-term lifestyle changes, self management is in effective measure that increases their control over their condition.