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Background: Caring for people who suffer from Alzheimer's disease is stressful. Family caregivers of these people usually experience physical and mental burnout and lose their efficacy in doing carerelated activities. The present study aimed to examine the impacts of spiritual care education on selfefficacy of the family caregivers of people with Alzheimer's disease
Methods: This study was conducted from October to December 2015 by using a two-group pretestposttest quasi-experimental design. In total, 60 family caregivers of people with Alzheimer's disease were recruited and randomly allocated to the intervention and control groups. A spiritual care educational intervention was implemented for the caregivers in the intervention group. The data were collected before and three weeks after the study intervention by using the ten-item General Self Efficacy scale. The study data were analyzed in SPSS using Chi-square and independent t-test
Results: Before the study intervention, the means of pretest self-efficacy scores in the intervention and control groups were29.80 +/- 4.80 and 28.39 +/- 6.41, respectively. There was no significant difference between the groups regarding the mean score of self-efficacy [P=0.36]. After the study, these two scores changed to 32.73 +/- 4.75 and 27.85 +/- 5.98, respectively. However, after the intervention, the mean score of self-efficacy in the intervention group was significantly higher than the control group [P=0.002]
Conclusion: Spiritual care can enhance the self-efficacy of the family caregivers of people who suffer from Alzheimer's disease. Therefore, care providers are recommended to use such spirituality-based interventions for empowering family caregivers
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Background: mothers play a key role in caring for their sick children. Their experiences of care were influenced by culture, rules, and the system of health and care services. There are few studies on maternal care of children with congenital heart disease. Also, each of them has studied a particular aspect of care. The present research aimed to understand care experiences of mothers of children with congenital heart disease
Methods: a conventional content analysis was used to obtain rich data. The goal of content analysis is "to provide knowledge and deeper understanding of the phenomenon under the study". The study was conducted in Kerman, Iran in 2014, on mothers of children with CHD. The purposive sampling technique was used to select the participants. Participants were 14 mothers of children with CHD and one father and one nurse of open heart surgery unit, from two hospitals affiliated with Kerman University of Medical Sciences. Eighteen semi-structured interviews were constructed. Data were analyzed using conventional content analysis. MAXQDA 2007 software [VERBI GmbH, Berlin, Germany] was used to classify and manage the coding. Constant comparative method was done for data analysis. The reliability and validity of the findings, including the credibility, confirm ability, dependability, and transferability, were assessed
Results: according to the content analysis, the main theme was the catastrophic burden of child care on mothers that included three categories: 1] the tension resulting from the disease, 2] involvement with internal thoughts, and 3] difficulties of care process
Conclusion: the results of this study may help health care professionals to provide supportive and educational packages to the patients, mothers and Family members until improving the management of patient's care
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Background: The nursing students should acquire practical and theoretical competence required for the patients' care during their 4 years of education. This involves proper use of time. The purpose of this study was to investigate how nursing students manage their time despite the academic difficulties and obstacles
Methods: This qualitative study was carried out through grounded theory method. The study population consisted of nursing students. Twenty-one nursing students studying at undergraduate level were selected purposefully for participation in this study. The data were collected with semi-structured interview and analyzed through Strauss and Corbin method [2008]. MAXQDA 10 software was employed to organize and process the data
Results: Core variable of this study was "directing activities toward personal goals," representing in 3 behavioral patterns. The behavioral pattern of "retaliation from field" was one of the 3 patterns applied by nursing students. The properties of this pattern included "unknowingly entrance to nursing field," "stress and dissatisfaction with spending time," "nonacceptance of field," "attempt to decrease stress and obtain satisfaction," and "ignoring academic responsibilities". According to this pattern, the students spent most of their time on non-academic responsibilities while trying to overcome the stress
Conclusion: The findings of this study recommend the necessity for revising the admission method of nursing students and informed choice of nursing field by these students
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To explore nursing staff's perspectives about spiritual mode of job satisfaction. This was a qualitative study. Data was obtained through interviews, which were recorded and subsequently transcribed. The analysis was carried out by the qualitative content analysis. Five matter themes emerged from the data analysis: spiritual joy and interest, patients as bless of God, spiritual assurance, spiritual remuneration, and spiritual repugnance. Spiritually as an important and integral aspect of nursing profession was supported in this study. Spirituality is the inner, intangible dimension that motivates staff nurses to search for meaning and purpose, and establish positive and trusting relationships with patients and God