[Effect of family-centered empowerment model [FCEM] on quality of life of mothers having teenagers with iron deficiency anemia]

Iron deficiency anemia is the most common hematological disease and like other chronic diseases affects different aspects of quality of life of patients and their mothers as their primary caregiver. The present study has been done in order to investigate the effect of [FCEM] on quality of life of mothers having teenagers with iron deficiency anemia in Tehran, 2013. This semi-experimental research was conducted after choosing 60 mothers of female teenager' with iron deficiency anemia and dividing them into two case and control groups through purposive sampling. The research tools included demographic; as well as, WHO Quality of Life-BREF [WHOQOL-BREF] questionnaires. FCEM was implemented in the case group and the post test was carried out 1.5 month after the end of the intervention. Before intervention the means of the quality of life in the case group and the control group were 54.63 +/- 6.89 and 54.50 +/- 7.66 respectively. Independent t-test showed no significant difference in the quality of life in mothers of adolescent girls between the two groups [P=0.94]; whereas, after the intervention the means of the quality of life in the case group and control groups were 60.13 +/- 4.20 and 54.46 +/- 7.09 respectively. Independent t-test showed a significant difference between the two groups in the mean of the quality of life [P<0.001]. In addition, paired t-test showed a significant difference before and after the intervention in the case group in the mean of the quality of life [P<0.001]. While, this difference was not significant in the control group [P=0.851]. Findings showed that the FCEM was effective in increasing the quality of life of mothers having adolescent with iron deficiency anemia. It is recommended that further studies be performed on the effectiveness of this model on other chronic diseases

effect of coaching role playing by clinical supervisors on staff nurses morale

Currently, the most concern in the clinical nursing practice is the increasing problems related to the low morale in nurses. However, the importance of managerial behaviors and their influence on nurses morale are obvious. Therefore, the objective of this study was to investigate "the effects of coaching role of clinical supervisors on staff nurses morale ". A quasi-experimental research with pre and post-test in two groups [experimental and control] was conducted in one of the teaching hospitals in Tehran; which was selected randomly. There were eight medical-surgical units that randomly allocated in two groups. The study samples included 54 nurses, 27 nurses in each group of experimental and control. Data was gathered in two periods of pre and post intervention by a Staff Nurse Morale Questionnaire. The intervention had two stages; the first was orientation: nursing management development program; and the second was optimizing environment by designing an applied supervision guide for coaching roles of supervisors. After this stage, clinical supervisors played coaching role for 16 weeks as coaching role players. The Chi-square test revealed no significant differences between the two groups of experimental and control regarding individual characteristics [such as age, gender, job]. The mean scores of nursing morales in the experimental group at pre and post-intervention were 59.30 and 71.30 respectively; that the difference was statistically significant [P < 0.001]; whereas in the control group the mean of morale scores at pre and post-intervention were 69.33 and 64.07, that the reduction was significant [P < 0.020]. Therefore, coaching role playing by clinical supervisors resulted to staff nurses morale improvement. One of the approaches for improvement of nursing morale is applying suitable supervision and leadership methods. Thus, according to the study findings, coaching role playing by supervisors as a novel principle of supervision and leadership can be used for nurses' morale promotion