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Background: Changes in the course of diseases, their treatment, and care provision result in the need for a specific type of care known as palliative care. Medical staff’s knowledge and awareness of palliative care is important in this regard. Objectives: This study aims to examine the caregivers’ knowledge and awareness of palliative care and to determine the related predictors. Methods: In this cross-sectional study, 277 subjects were selected from among the caregivers working in the selected teaching hospitals in Iran through non-randomized sampling method. The subjects were asked to fill the online questionnaire which consisted of 3 sections including demographic data, knowledge, and attitude toward palliative care. Descriptive, inferential statistics, correlation and regression analyses were performed. Results: The mean scores of care providers’ attitude and knowledge were 140.90 ± 11.56 and 19.36 ± 2.73 respectively. There was a significant relationships between some variables such as working place, education level, age, palliative care-related working expe-rience, and the necessity to pass training courses and the mean scores of attitude and knowledge. Conclusions: Since palliative care providers’ level of knowledge and attitude were reported to be moderate, training courses at different levels in the form of clinical courses should be offered with the aim of improving care providers’ skills and scientific abilities. It is essential to include the related topics in the curricula of academic programs.
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Introduction: Increasing knowledge in nursing and existing contradictions is the main challenge for the health system in a pandemic such as a corona pandemic. Knowledge translation is an effective strategy in strengthening the acceptance and application of research results in the field. Interaction between researchers (research nurses) and users (nursing caregivers) is one of the main features of knowledge translators. This study was conducted to explain the need for a knowledge translation model in Iranian nursing. Methods: The systematic review studies about knowledge translation were searched between 2005 and 2020 in the valid databases Medline, PubMed, Scopus with keywords included COVID-19, Knowledge Translation Model, Knowledge translation in Nursing, Knowledge‐ to ‐ Action Cycle. Overall, 1231 documents were extracted, and after removing irrelevant and duplicate articles, 46 articles related to the subject were included. Results: Knowledge translation in nursing needs a model to develop testable and useful interventions. Despite the need to develop theory and model in the last four decades, there is currently no complete and satisfactory model of knowledge translation in nursing. Many people who believe that change should take place after the production of knowledge, believe that due to the various obstacles in the process, the factors affecting the knowledge translation in nursing should be presented as a model. Conclusion: Research about the knowledge translation process in nursing, and health policymakers' reaction, increase insight into the problems and shortcomings of this process. At present, there are no coherent models appropriate to the local conditions in nursing in Iran to explain the model of knowledge translation in such a way that the conditions prevail over the three areas of policy-making, academic and clinical in general.