[ burden of caregiver and related factors of oncology patients of Shah Vali hospital]

Caregivers of patients with leukemia facing with problems such as little chance of recovery in patients and probability of relapse and patient dependency and high responsibility such as increasing the Leading to increased burden and mental, physical, emotional and social symptom. This study aimed to determine the burden and related factors in caregiver of patients with leukemia. In descriptive study 60 care givers of the patients hospitalized in oncology of Shah Vali Hospital of Yazd city selected by non-random sampling demographic questionnarrie and caregiver burden scale was completed. Caregiver burden scale validity with content validity and reliability of caregiver burden scale with Cronbach's alpha coefficient, were calculated 92. data analysis were done Spss soft ware whit Pbt-Test, ANOVA and Pearson correlation coefficient. 82.3% Caregivers were female, 30% caregivers were Spouse, 50% caregivers were children. The average of burden in all samples was high. Highest average of burden was related to the care of spouses. There was direct relationship between disease duration [r=0.5], age of care giver and age of patient [r =0.6] with burden. caregivers with low socioeconomic status [p=0.04] and patient in 3 phase [p=0.03] were reported high burden. Because of high burden in caregivers of patients with leukemia, identify factors affecting the incidence of pressure care and their needs and design appropriate interventions to reduce stress and improve quality of life in caregivers and improve quality of care is necessary

[Satisfaction of nursing students with two clinical evaluation methods: objective structured clinical examination [OSCE] and practical examination of clinical competence]

Clinical training is an essential part of nursing education. Its evaluation can deeply affect on its quality and has always been a challenge for nursing education. The aim of this descriptive study was to compare satisfaction of nursing students with two methods of clinical evaluation, namely, objective structured clinical examination [OSCE] and practical examination in faculty of nursing and midwifery affiliated to Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences in Tehran in 2007. 44 sophomore students in their orthopedic clinical training were selected by convenience sampling method and evaluated by the two evaluation methods. Data were collected by a satisfaction questionnaire in 3 cognitive, affective, and psychomotor domains. Content and inter-rater methods were used for validity and reliability of the questionnaire respectively. SPSS package [ver. 13] was used for data analysis. Satisfaction rates of nursing students in the 3 domains were higher in OSCE than in practical examination with a significant difference in achieving educational goals in the domains and in total [P < 0.001]. In this study, OSCE was used in this group of students for thier clinical training for the first time. It seems that this type of evaluation may better satisfy nursing students in their clinical training