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Introduction: Coronary artery disease is the most common type of cardiovascular disease. Despite the increasing number of patients with coronary artery disease, the lived experiences of these patients have remained unknown. The purpose of the study was to understand the lived experiences of elderly patients with coronary artery disease
Methods: This qualitative research was conducted using an interpretive phenomenological approach. Participants included thirteen elderly patients [9 males and 4 females] with coronary artery disease selective of purposive sampling method from Coronary Care Unit of Shahid Beheshti Hospital in Qom, 2016. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews between 55 - 80 minutes. The interviews were recorded and transcribed. The Van Manen's proposed six steps was used to analyze the data
Results: The main theme of study was "living with ups and downs". It included sub-themes of 1] losing calmness,2] trying to achieve calmness through spirituality, 3] losing health, 4] trying to promote health through modification of lifestyle, 5] perceiving family support, 6] living in fear, 7] living with a damaged heart"
Conclusion: Findings of the research indicated that the coronary artery disease led patients to experience ups and downs for the participations. After the disease, they were trying to achieve calmness through some strategies. Members of the treatment team, especially nurses should provide self-care education for to make them be have successfully in this field
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Objective [s]: To translate and evaluate the validity and reliability of the Seattle Angina Questionnaire, as a disease-specific quality of life scale in patients with angina pectoris
Method: After permission, the questionnaire was translated. Then face validity, content validity, concurrent validity and criterion validity were determined. In order to evaluate the construct validity, known-groups comparison [patients with and without chest symptoms] was performed and to determine its criterion validity the Short Form 36 [SF-36] was used. Cronbach's alpha coefficients and the test retest were used to assess the scale reliability. 100 patients with angina pectoris participated in this study
Results: The criterion validity showed high and significant correlation between most SAQ and SF-36 scores. Cronbach's alpha of the total scale was 0.85 and test-retest reliability [ICC] within 2 weeks, in all dimensions was greater than 0. 90
Conclusion: The findings suggest that the SAQ is a valid and reliable disease-specific scale and can be considered for measuring health outcomes in research and clinical settings
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Objective [s]: This study was performed to translate and validatie the Persian version of Critical Care Family Needs Inventory [CCFNI] assessing family needs of admitted patients in the intensive care units and to determine its validation
Methods: After translation qualitative face validity and content validity was established for the questionnaire. In order to evaluate the construct validity, known-groups comparison [nonsurgical versus surgical patients] was performed and to determine its differential validity, intensive care unit were compared with the conventional wards using independent-sample t -test. The internal consistency [Cronbach's alpha coefficients] were used to assess the scale reliability. 150 family members of patients in intensive care units and 150 patients' family members in general medical and surgical wards participated in this study
Results: Significant differences were found between surgical and nonsurgical patients' family [p=0.03] as well as the intensive care unit and conventional wards [p=0.007]. There were significant positive correlations between all scale dimensions [0.684
Conclusion: The findings confirmed that the Iranian version of Critical Care Family Need Inventory is a valid measure for assessing family needs of patients admitted to intensive care units
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PURPOSE: Fatigue affects the quality of life. Evidence shows that the phenomenon of fatigue is experienced differently depending on the type of disease and its consequences. The aim of the study was to explicate the meanings of the experience of living with fatigue in chemically injured veterans. METHODS: The hermeneutic phenomenology approach was used in this study, with an emphasis on Van Mennen's viewpoint and approach. According to Van Mennen, six overlapping dynamic activities are recommended to conduct a phenomenological study. During unstructured interviews, the participants were asked to describe their daily living experiences with fatigue. The participants were individuals who were chemically injured due to exposure to mustard gas. After examining every statement in the interview text, extractions of the meaning units, clustering, and themes were performed. RESULTS: The data explication was based on the third to sixth stages of Van Mennen's approach. The experience living with fatigue was classified into four essential themes: fatigue as a chronic condition, as an unstable and affected situation, as a physical condition of the entire individual, and as a mental condition of the entire individual. CONCLUSION: Due to unique social interactions and pathogenicity, victims of mustard gas experience fatigue differently than patients with other chronic diseases.
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Humans , Chronic Disease , Fatigue , Interpersonal Relations , Mustard Gas , Qualitative Research , Quality of Life , Sulfur , VeteransABSTRACT
Objective: To determine the psychometric properties of an Iranian version of the Palmore's Questionnaire called Facts on Aging Quiz [FAQI]
Methods: The psychometric properties including face validity, content validity, construct validity, internal consistency, and test- retest reliability were measured in 280 nurses who were working in the emergency, medical, and surgical wards of 5 randomly selected general hospitals associated with medical schools in Tehran
Results: The results of known groups' comparisons showed that this questionnaire could successfully discriminate between subgroups of nurses with different prior work experiences with the elderly and/ or had the experience of living with older people in the family. The internal consistency [Cronbach's alpha] was 0.81. Test-retest reliability [ICC] of the questionnaire with interval time of two weeks was 0.98[P<0.001]
Conclusion: Based on the results of the present study, the Farsi-version of FAQ 1 is a valid and reliable instrument for measuring nurses' knowledge about older people. We concluded that the FAQI appears to be a promising tool, providing reliable and valid data helping to detect knowledge among nurses in different settings such as clinical settings, and research environments by health care providers and researchers