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Introduction: One of the challenges in the medicine education system is evaluation of clinical competency of students. Evaluation of students in clinical education courses sometimes is not following a certain principles and also it is not clear that how much they reach to educational objectives at the end of courses. Aim of this study was developing and psychometric properties assessing psychometric properties of check list of clinical competency in mental health nursing students
Methods: This study was methodological approach. Participants were faculty members, head nurses and nurses who work in psychiatric wards and students [undergraduate and master sciences] of Medical Sciences universities of Iran. Based on entry criteria, sampling approach was depending on objective. Domains of tool developed with use of results of first step of research[qualitative part] in addition to study of valid references this filed .After developing primary check list, stages of psychometric properties including determination of validity[content and facial] and reliability[internal consistency and inter-observer correlation] developed. In order to analyze the data descriptive and analytic statistics with SPSS [20th version] were used
Results: Check list of "Clinical Competency of Mental Health Nursing Students" with 73 items was developed. Content validity ratio was. 83 and content validity index was. 98. Measurment of reliability with the use of internal consistency [Cronbach's alpha] was .98 and inter-observer correlation was.70
Conclusion: Check list of "Clinical Competency of Mental Health Nursing Students" in two issues include general and specific competencies with 73 items was developed .It seems for assessment of different dimensions of clinical competencies of mental health nursing students is appropriate tool
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Introduction: Depression is a common mood disorder that causes distortion of the patient's self-esteem. The first and most important factor in the formation of self-esteem is an interaction with family members. As one of the main risk factors of depression is distress in family processes, that means family functions in various conditions, therefore the present study was aimed to investigate the correlation between family processes and self-esteem in depressed patients
Methods: 180 depressed patients were selected by propose sampling. A questionnaire completed by self-report was used for data collection. It included 3 parts: demographic, family process scale and Rosenberg self-esteem scale. Data was analyzed by version 17 SPSS software
Results: Family processes score in majority of samples was mediocre [53/86]. The samples maximum and minimum score was in religious belief [7/55] and decision making [4/18] dimensions respectively. The self-esteem score in majority of samples was mediocre. Also results show that a positive and significant correlation between all the family processes dimensions, expect religious belief dimension, and self-esteem [p<0/00]
Conclusion: In general, majority of samples had a mediocre family processes and self-esteem, indicating a significant and positive correlation between family processes and self-esteem