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Introduction: Chemotherapy is an important treatment for cancer, its provoke a changes in the emotional sphere and anxiety for patients. Snoezelen room had reported the anxiety reduction effect on patients but limited studies have been undertaken investigating effectiveness of Snoezelen room on anxiety in differentiating high-normal state anxiety during chemotherapy
Method: This was a Quasi experimental, clinical study that enrolled 62 patients who received initial chemotherapy. Selected convenience and randomly and divided in to two groups of intervention and control. Spielberger State-Trait Anxiety Instrument was measured A half hour before and Immediately after chemotherapy. Paired t-test, chi-square and reappeared measures ANOVA was used for data analysis
Results: No significant differences were noticed among the 2 groups before the intervention, as effective demographic factors show [P>0.005]. A significant difference was between their anxiety in Snoezelen groups with control group [P<0.005]
Conclusion: This study revealed that Snoezelen room on patient will have a positive effect on anxiety during chemotherapy. Taking the importance of the nurse role in management, controlling and Improvement side effects of chemotherapy chronic this pattern of relaxation recommend a necessity to reach to better anxiety control
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Introduction: Motivation is the main factor for persuasion students to clinical learning. Lack of motivation is a barrier to learning. Therefore, investigation of the motivation role in clinical education is particularly important. This study aimed to investigate the nursing students and instructors' perspectives on the role of instructor in the clinical education motivation of nursing students
Methods: This research has been conducted with qualitative approach through content analysis method. The participants were comprised of sixteen nursing students and four nursing educators. Semi-structured interviews were used for data collection. Data obtained from interviews with content analysis were analyzed method through using Maxqda software
Results: The themes of this study were: 1 - Scientific and practical competence, 2 - Behavior educator, and 3 - educator attitude to nursing
Conclusion: According the participants the role of the clinical instructors were known as a basic role in the motivation in the clinical education process. For students to become motivated or not to can during clinical experiences could attract or they will turn away from clinical work and nursing profession so far
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Introduction: Knowledge translation is a frequently observed concept in current health science literatures. However, there is no congruence about its definition and properties. Analysis of concept helps researchers to achieve a uniform, clear and understandable description. This study accomplished on 2009 to clarify and reduce ambiguities associated with the meaning of knowledge translation and promote the concept consistency in related literatures
Methods: Walker and Avant's eight-step model was used as the method. After extensive review of all published articles until 2009, we included 29 relevant articles in the analysis. By following the steps of model, definitions, characteristics, applications, antecedents and consequences and empirical referents of the concept were derived
Results: According to the analysis, essential attributes of knowledge translation were emphasize on research knowledge application in practice, ongoing collaboration among knowledge producers and knowledge users, interactional and nonlinear process, and dependency on user and final context. In addition, the consequences of successful knowledge translation were community health promotion; more effective health services, improvement in practice and strengthen of the health care system
Conclusion: Since knowledge translation process in our country is relatively new and unknown, this concept analysis can improve implementation of more extent studies and development of research tools for identification of its barriers and facilitators and its execution
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Custom-orienting is a critical issue for public health service. Peoples with a variety of developmental health care needs and perspectives are health care clients. Health accessibility through "Primary health care" has been approved and emphasized in Alma Ata in 1978. It is important to have a clear and transparent understanding of clients' health needs and problems that would enable us to address such needs and prevent the negative consequences that might otherwise ensue. The aim of this study was to understand and gain deeper insight into health service customers' lived experience of public health accessibility. This study has been conducted with a phenomenological approach. Max van Manen six steps method of hermeneutic-phenomenology has been used. Nine health care clients were selected purposefully and interviewed semi-structured. The results of this experiment revealed the following six themes: to encounter with holistic learning chance, custom-oriented communications, qualified health care service, appropriate time-place health services, equality- orienting, and individual participation. The participants believed that health accessibility is something more than just to have health services. Therefore, health education and social equality will bring about optimum health services. To develop multi-dimensional learning and to promote individual participation will be useful for more community empowerment
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Stoma surgery is one of the events that strongly influences individual life and causes major changes in life style. Self-efficacy as a personal coping resource can facilitate adaptation with these changes. So the aim of this study was to assess self-efficacy and the related factors in ostomates. It was a cross-sectional study. Eighty four patients with ostomy who were referred to selected educational centers of Tehran University of Medical Sciences and Iranian Ostomy Association [IOA] were selected through convenience sampling. The data were collected using personal information form and Stoma Self-Efficacy Scale [Stoma SE Scale]. Data was analyzed by SPSS 15 using descriptive statistics, independent t-test, ANOVA and regression analysis. Half of the participants gained at least half of the overall self-efficacy scores. The mean score of social self-efficacy was lower than the mean score of stoma care self-efficacy. Self-efficacy was associated with marital status, stoma status and stoma duration [P<0.05] but the relationship between self-efficacy and age, gender, educational level, type of stoma and reason of stoma was not statistically significant. The Present study provided useful information about self-efficacy and its related factors in stoma patients. This information can be used for designing and performing appropriate nursing interventions to promote these patients' self-efficacy, especially in the social dimension which is weaker in most ostomates
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We conducted this study on 52 adolescents from Tehran to investigate their perspectives on health. We used the grounded theory approach and the constant comparison analysis method. Identity emerged as a core variable along with the concepts of friendship and relationships, education, family, lack of limitation and community. Identity affects adolescents' health regarding the emerged concepts. Participants believed that psychosocial health-related factors were more important than physical and individual health factors. Therefore, social welfare, healthy family/friendship, and caring for adolescents' individuality are important for healthy adolescence