Iran Journal of Nursing

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  Background and Aim: Communication between mother and neonate is very important during neonatal period. One method of non verbal communication is skin contact of mother and neonate. The aim of this study was to examine the effects of skin contact of mother on vital signs and behavioral state of premature neonates hospitalized at Bahman and Shahid Sadoughi hospitals, Yazd.

  Material and Method: In this clinical trial, samples were 50 premature neonates between 32-36 weeks of gestational age (25 in experimental group and 25 in control group). Data was collected via a demographic questionnaire, an observational check-list, and also, pulse rate, respiratory rate, and axillary temperature were recorded. The data was collected 10 minutes before and after skin contact between mother and premature neonate, in control group.

  Results: There was no statistically significant difference between two groups in terms of weight, gestational age, sex, type of delivery and mother age. The results demonstrated that skin contact decreased pulse rate (P≤0.001) and respiratory rate (P≤0.001), increased axillary temperature (P=0.02) and had a positive effect on the behavioral state (P≤0.001).

  Conclusion : The results suggest that skin contact between mother and premature neonate reduces pulse and respiratory rate and increases axillary temperature and have a positive effect on behavioral state of the neonate (ranges from arouse to deep sleep).

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  Background & Aims: Nowadays the elderly population is growing all over the world. Diseases and conditions resulting from this evolutionary process can be costly to governments and cause many disabilities which severly affect the erderly’s quality of life. This study aims to determine the effect of self-care training program on quality of life of elderly.

  Material & Methods: It is a controlled randomized trial which was carried out on 60 elderly referred to Omid’s elderly care center in Borougen city. After convenience sampling, the elderly were randomly assigned to two groups of experimental (n=30) and control (n= 30) groups. The experimental group participated in a three months self- care training program. Data was collected by the Short Form Health Survey (SF-36) and analyzed using SPSS-PC (v.11).

  Results: The findings showed a significant difference in the mean scores of quality of life between the experimental and control groups (P<0.05) after intervention.

Conclusion : Self- care education to elderly about the practices of proper nutrition, exercise, rest and medication can prevent a lot of problems and help them to improve their quality of life.

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  Background & Aim : Problem solving is a skill vital for life today and its learning is essential for everyone. Considering that the best way to achieve the correct habits of thinking and judgment is to use educational programs and to confront students with real issues, the aim of this study was to identify the effect of D’ zurilla & gold fried problem solving model’s training on problem solving skill of nursing students.

  Materials & Methods: It was a randomized controlled trial. The sample consisted of 43 undergraduate nursing students of the Hazrat Ftemeh School of nursing and midwifery of Shiraz University of Medical Sciences who participated voluntary and were randomly assigned into experimental(n= 20) and control (n=23) groups. The experimental group participated in six sessions of problem solving. Data was collected by the problem solving subscale of Bar-On emotional intelligence questionnaire and analyzed using SPSS-PC (v.11).

  Results : there was a significant difference between the mean scores of problem solving skills in the experimental group and control group immediately and two months after the intervention (p<0.01).

  Discussion : Regarding the impact of this model on the improvement of problem solving skills and the stability of its effects, using this model in different areas of nursing, including education, management, research and clinical area is recommended.

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  Background and Aims: Assessment of patient and parent satisfaction with nursing care is a method for evaluation of quality of care in hospitals. The aim of this study is to determine the level of mothers’ satisfaction with nursing care in Tabriz children hospital.

  Material & Methods: It was a descriptive, cross-sectional study. A total of 168 mothers of children hospitalized in different wards of Tabriz children hospital were recruited by convenience sampling. Data was collected by Newcastle Satisfaction with Nursing Scales (NSNS) and analyzed by Regression coefficient, Pearson correlation coefficient, and T test using SPSS-PC (v. 11).

  Results: The mean score of mothers^’ overall satisfaction was 74.77±18.65. The items with lowest level of satisfaction were “nurses’ helping to calm and assure the parents and relatives”, “the kind of information given by nurses to the mothers”, and “nurses rapidity when they were called by mothers” respectively. Mothers were most satisfied with nurses’ helpfulness (4.41 ± 0.81). Mothers^’ satisfaction was not significantly correlated to their age, level of education, job, Childs' gender, age, number of hospitalizations, and health status at the time of discharge (P> 0.05). Mothers^’ satisfaction was significantly correlated with their experiences of nursing care (P<0.05).

  Conclusion: The results emphasize the importance of supporting patients’ relatives and giving information to parents concerning caring for their hospitalized children.

  Received: 17 Dec 2013

  Accepted: 25 Feb 2014