@article{ author = {Nikpour, Soghra and Nooritajer, Maryam and Haghani, Hamid and Ravandi, Arash}, title = {Musculoskeletal Disorders among Nurses in Teaching Hospitals Affiliated To Iran University of Medical Sciences and Health Services}, abstract ={  Background and Aim: Musculoskeletal disorders have been considered as one of the most important causes of occupational injury and disability in the nursing profession. The purpose of this study was to investigate the prevalence of, and risk factors for musculoskeletal disorders among hospital nurses.   Material and Method : A cross-sectional design was used to conduct the study on 615 nursing staff (Nurse-Assistant nurse-Orderly) in four teaching hospitals affiliated to Iran University of Medical Sciences and Health Services in Tehran. The samples were selected based on multistage sampling method. Personal and occupational risk factors were assessed. Data was gathered with a self-reporting questionnaire based on the internationally accepted “Standardized Nordic Questionnaire”. The self reported incidence of symptoms regarding musculoskeletal disorders was collected during one year.   Results: The prevalence of musculoskeletal disorders according to the involved area were as the following: knee (64.2 %), neck (55.6%), upper back (53.7 %), lower back (54.1 %), ankle (44.6 %), hip (40.5 %). Regression analysis showed that “previous history of the symptom before the last year”, “BMI”, and “lifting patients” were respectively related to the musculoskeletal disorders.   Conclusion: Overall, our study showed that musculoskeletal disorders are common among nursing professionals and represent an important occupational issue for the population under study.}, Keywords = {Musculoskeletal disorders - Nursing staff - Descriptive analytic desighn}, volume = {22}, Number = {60}, pages = {8-18}, publisher = {دانشگاه علوم پزشکی ایران}, url = {http://ijn.iums.ac.ir/article-1-707-en.html}, eprint = {http://ijn.iums.ac.ir/article-1-707-en.pdf}, journal = {Iran Journal of Nursing}, issn = {2008-5931}, eissn = {2008-5931}, year = {2009} } @article{ author = {DarvishpoorKakhki, Ali and Ebrahim, Hossen and AlaviMajd, Hami}, title = {Health Status of Nurses of Hospitals Dependent to Shahroud Medical University}, abstract ={  Background and Aim: Health is a right for humans. The most health service givers at health organization are nurses. Hence, they have important role at improve health status of community. But, they are exposed with different stressors that decrease health status. Hence, this study has been conducted to examine health status and evaluate correlation between health status and occupaitonal and demographic variables of them. Materials and Methods: This study is a descriptive research that conducted on nurses of hospitals dependent to shahroud medical university. Demographic and occupaitonal characteristics questionnaire and also short form health survey (SF-36) were used to data collection. Nurses respond by s elf-administered method to questionnaires. Data were analyzed by descriptive and inferential statistic with SPSS software, windows version.   Results: 158 nurses participated in this study. Upon to result, 75.8% of subjects were female, 24.2% male and average age were 32.48±8.31 year. The range of mean of health status scores in different domains was variants from 38.20±25.26 for bodily pain to 71.94±24.38 for physical functioning. There were significant relations between health status different dimensions and variables of age, recuritment status, work shift, clinial ward and years in profession. The statistical tests didn’t reveal significant relations between sex, marital status and educational level with health status different dimensions.   Conclusion: The findings of this study showed that nurses suffer critically of bodily pains problem in comparison with other health status dimensions . Therefore attntion to health status of nurses especially bodily pains problem and its relations with demographic and occupaitonal variables to improvement health status of nurses is necessary.    }, Keywords = {Health Status – Burnout professional– Hospital - Nurse}, volume = {22}, Number = {60}, pages = {19-27}, publisher = {دانشگاه علوم پزشکی ایران}, url = {http://ijn.iums.ac.ir/article-1-708-en.html}, eprint = {http://ijn.iums.ac.ir/article-1-708-en.pdf}, journal = {Iran Journal of Nursing}, issn = {2008-5931}, eissn = {2008-5931}, year = {2009} } @article{ author = {Joolaee, Soodabeh and Nikbakht-Nasrabadi, Alireza and Parsa-Yekta, Zohreh}, title = {Iranian Nurses, Physicians and Patients\' Lived Experiences Regarding Patient’s Rights Practice}, abstract ={  Background and Aim : Patients are among the most vulnerable social groups whose particular situation makes their rights more sensitive in health care system. They relegate themselves totally to the health care system and trust to the health professionals. In such a context, it seems necessary to provide tools and strategies for assuring patients rights advocacy. To designe and establish these tools, participation of all stakeholders is important and crucial according to WHO recommendations. The first step in this direction is entering to the world of the particular groups involving in patients’ rights practice in their daily activities and hearing their voices. The aim of this study was to explore lived experiences of patients, patients’ companions, nurses and physicians about patient’s rights practice.   Material and Method : This is a phenomenological study based on Van Mannen’s approach to investigate a shared experience from different perspectives. Data was gathered via semi-structured interviews with 9 patients, 3 patient’s companions, 8 nurses and 5 physicians in a central teaching hospital in Tehran, Iran. The transcribed interviews were analyzed through Van Mannen’s thematic analysis.   Results: Holistic care, awareness of rights, adequacy of resources, accountability and integrated rights of patients and health care providers were the main themes emerging in this study. Conclusion: The findings of this study can reflect the meaning of patients’ rights practice from the lived experiences of patients, patients’ companions, nurses and physicians. This can be in use for the policy makers interested in considering their main partners perspectives when revising patients’ rights monitoring tools}, Keywords = {Lived experiences - Patient’s rights – Phenomenology - Van Mannen}, volume = {22}, Number = {60}, pages = {28-41}, publisher = {دانشگاه علوم پزشکی ایران}, url = {http://ijn.iums.ac.ir/article-1-709-en.html}, eprint = {http://ijn.iums.ac.ir/article-1-709-en.pdf}, journal = {Iran Journal of Nursing}, issn = {2008-5931}, eissn = {2008-5931}, year = {2009} } @article{ author = {Rafii, F and Oskouie, F and Peyrovi, Hamid and Haghani, Hami}, title = {A Comparative Study of the Effectiveness of the Clinical Practice of Fundamental Nursing through Role-Play versus Traditional Method on Caring Behaviors of Sophomore-Level Nursing Students}, abstract ={  Background and Aim: Caring is a multidimensional nursing concept that can be actualized within the baccalaureate nursing curriculum through the purposeful teaching and student centered learning of core values. Although, the learning of caring is widely accepted, it has not been proved through research.   The aim of this study was to assess and compare the effectiveness of clinical practice of fundamental nursing through role-play and traditional methods on the caring behaviors of sophomore-level students in the Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery- Iran University of Medical Sicences (IUMS).   Method: This is a quasi-experimental pilot study using an equivalent control group and post-test design. Fifty one nursing students were randomly assigned in either experimental or control groups. The clinical experience of the experimental group occurred in nursing skill lab and the control group experienced their clinical practice in hospitals affiliated to IUMS on a routine basis. Then, caring behaviors of the two groups were observed in their first clinical practice of medical-surgical nursing using Caring Behaviour Inventory, CBI. This article has been allotted to the comparison of caring behaviors of the sample following clinical practice through these methods.   Results: Findings indicated that behaviors related to the subscale of "Respectful difference to other" and "Professional knowledge and skill" were, respectively, the most and least frequent behaviors in both groups. Man-Whitney test indicated a statistically significant difference between the two groups in the subscale of "Assurance of human presence"(P= 0.038). The same test indicated no statistical significant difference between the mean of the total scale of caring behaviors of the two groups.   Conclusion: Regarding the absence of any difference between caring behaviors of the two groups, making changes in the future research designs and testing new approaches to approve the probability of learning of caring is needed. Moreover, using approaches for maintaining interpersonal aspects of caring in nursing curricula, increasing the time of clinical experience, changing the teaching styles of practical aspects of nursing, and integrating theory and practice, appropriately, is recommended.  �}, Keywords = {Caring behaviors – Caring - Nursing students - Standardized patient (Role-play)}, volume = {22}, Number = {60}, pages = {42-52}, publisher = {دانشگاه علوم پزشکی ایران}, url = {http://ijn.iums.ac.ir/article-1-710-en.html}, eprint = {http://ijn.iums.ac.ir/article-1-710-en.pdf}, journal = {Iran Journal of Nursing}, issn = {2008-5931}, eissn = {2008-5931}, year = {2009} } @article{ author = {Masoudi, Reza and Mohammadi, Iesa and Ahmadi, Fazlollah and Hasanpour-Dehkordi, Ali}, title = {The Effect of Self-Care Program Education Based on Orem’s Theory on Mental Aspect of Quality of Life in Multiple Sclerosis Patients}, abstract ={}, Keywords = {Education - Orem’s self care program - Quality of life - Multiple sclerosis - patients}, volume = {22}, Number = {60}, pages = {53-64}, publisher = {دانشگاه علوم پزشکی ایران}, url = {http://ijn.iums.ac.ir/article-1-711-en.html}, eprint = {http://ijn.iums.ac.ir/article-1-711-en.pdf}, journal = {Iran Journal of Nursing}, issn = {2008-5931}, eissn = {2008-5931}, year = {2009} } @article{ author = {Bastani, Farideh and Mohammadi-Yeganeh, L}, title = {Does Oral Contraceptive Pill Influence Women’s Mood and Stress Level?}, abstract ={}, Keywords = {Mood – Stress - Oral contraceptive pills - Women’s health}, volume = {22}, Number = {60}, pages = {65-74}, publisher = {دانشگاه علوم پزشکی ایران}, url = {http://ijn.iums.ac.ir/article-1-715-en.html}, eprint = {http://ijn.iums.ac.ir/article-1-715-en.pdf}, journal = {Iran Journal of Nursing}, issn = {2008-5931}, eissn = {2008-5931}, year = {2009} } @article{ author = {Hosseinkhani, Navabeh and Sadeghi, Tahereh}, title = {The Effect of Ginger on Pregnancy-Induced Nausea during First Trimester}, abstract ={  Background and Aim: Pregnancy-induced nausea significantly reduces women's quality of life making considerable distress. Ginger is already being used in traditional folk medicine to treat nausea and vomiting in populations. The aim of the study was to determine the effect of ginger on pregnancy-induced nausea during the first trimester of the pregnancy.   Material and method: This was a double blind randomized placebo trial with control group in which 121 pregnant women referred to antenatal clinic at or before 17 weeks gestation and suffered from nausea was randomly allocated to either experimental, placebo, or control group. The severity of nausea was recorded by visual analog scale 24 hours before intervention and during 4 consecutive days after intervention. Data were analyzed by nonparametric and parametric tests.   Results : The findings showed that the nausea severity was statistically different in ginger group before and after treatment (at first, second third and fourth days) (P≤0.001). The same was true for placebo group (P<0.05), but, not for control group.   The findings also showed that ginger was more effective on decreasing the severity of nausea (P<0/05) than the placebo and control groups.   Conclusion : Oral ginger is effective on decreasing the severity of nausea during the first trimester of pregnancy and the drug have a positive mental effect on pregnant mothers, leading to decrease the severity of nausea.}, Keywords = {Ginger- Pregnancy – Nausea - Morning sickness - Herbal medicine }, volume = {22}, Number = {60}, pages = {75-83}, publisher = {دانشگاه علوم پزشکی ایران}, url = {http://ijn.iums.ac.ir/article-1-716-en.html}, eprint = {http://ijn.iums.ac.ir/article-1-716-en.pdf}, journal = {Iran Journal of Nursing}, issn = {2008-5931}, eissn = {2008-5931}, year = {2009} } @article{ author = {Jahani, Simin and Fayazi, Sedigheh and Sharafoddinzadeh, Naser}, title = {Comparative study of the adverse effects of subcutaneous and intraveneous infusion in patients admitted to neurology ward}, abstract ={  Background and Aim: Hypodermoclysis is a method of administration of fluids subcutaneously that has been increasingly rediscovered as an alternative therapy to intravenous infusions, especially in the field of geriatrics and palliative medicine. Though it is increasingly used, its safety and adverse effect are still controversial. The aim of this study was to compare the adverse effects of subcutaneous and intravenous infusions in geriatric patients.   Material and Method: The study was designed as a randomized clinical trial. It was performed at the neurology ward of Golestan hospital in Ahwaz. Eighty patients aged 65 and older with medical diagnosis of stroke were randomly allocated to receive subcutaneous or intravenous infusion of normal saline. A check list and visual analog scale (VAS) were used to record the observed adverse effects and determine the severity of pain, respectively. Localized adverse effects were categorized into minor and major groups based on diameter of involved area.   Results: Some patients experienced local side effects (40% of patient in subcutaneous group vs. 45% of patients in intravenous group). Major local side effects occurred in 16% of patients in subcutaneous group (large edema, Hhematoma) and 19% of patients in intravenous group (phlebitis, hematoma). The most frequent side effect was local edema in subcutaneous group (45%) and phlebitis (38%) in intravenous group. Both methods of rehydration were not statistically different in terms of local side effects.   Conclusion: This study demonstrated that rehydration by hypodermoclysis is, in general, as safe as intravenous therapy in geriatric patients. Therefore, when it is not possible to administer oral fluids or establish an intravenous access, hypodermoclysis can be recommended as an alternative and effective method of infusion.  }, Keywords = {Hypodermoclysis – Infusions, Subcutaneous – Infusions, Intravenous}, volume = {22}, Number = {60}, pages = {84-91}, publisher = {دانشگاه علوم پزشکی ایران}, url = {http://ijn.iums.ac.ir/article-1-717-en.html}, eprint = {http://ijn.iums.ac.ir/article-1-717-en.pdf}, journal = {Iran Journal of Nursing}, issn = {2008-5931}, eissn = {2008-5931}, year = {2009} }