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BACKGROUND: Emotional intelligence and interpersonal sensitivity are known as important nursing skills. They have significant role in the promotion of nurses working life and the health care which they provide. The goal of this study was the determination of the relationship between emotional intelligence and interpersonal sensitivity with quality of work life in nurses working in governmental hospitals of Tehran city in 2019. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This investigation was a descriptive-analytical and correlation study which was conducted among 256 nurses working in five governmental hospitals in Tehran. The studied nurses were selected through in access sampling method. The instruments of research included demographic, emotional intelligence, interpersonal sensitivity, and work life quality questionnaires. The analysis of data was done by descriptive and deductive statistics (t-test and Pearson correlation coefficient) and also SPSS. RESULTS: The conditions of emotional intelligence, interpersonal sensitivity, and work life quality of nurses were, in turn, in average, severe, and weak levels. The correlation between emotional intelligence and work life quality of nurses was significant (P ≤ 0.05) and they were positively correlated with each other (r = 0.311). The relationship between interpersonal sensitivity and work life quality of nurses was significant (P ≤ 0.05) and they were negatively correlated with each other (r = -0.43). CONCLUSION: The development of emotional intelligence and sensitivity in reciprocally interpersonal relations of nurses lead to fundamental changes in nurses' attitude toward themselves, their colleagues, patients and their profession and can promote their work life quality. Therefore, these two skills are necessary for nurses and they should be taken into consideration by nursing schools, faculty members, instructors, and nursing managers.
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BACKGROUND: Today, hospitals need managers who, in addition to having the necessary skills for management and leadership, are accountable to stakeholders, especially the community. Accordingly, the purpose of this study was to evaluate the social accountability of managers of public and private hospitals in Tehran. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The present study is descriptive-analytical and cross-sectional and was performed on 155 managers of selected public and private hospitals in Tehran. The research tools included a demographic characteristic questionnaire and a researcher-made social accountability questionnaire for managers. Data analysis was performed using descriptive and inferential statistics in SPSS 22 software. RESULTS: The situation of social accountability in the managers of public hospitals was at a weak level and in the managers of private hospitals in Tehran was at a good level. In comparing the status of social accountability and its dimensions in the managers of public hospitals with the managers of private hospitals, the status of social accountability in the dimensions of human resource management, quality improvement, executive management, and overall social accountability were significantly different from each other (P ≤ 0.05). However, in terms of governance, the status of social accountability of public hospital managers was not significantly different from private hospitals (P ≥ 0.05). Overall, the results of social accountability in private hospitals were better than in public hospitals. CONCLUSION: The social response status of managers in private hospitals was better than public ones. Lack of attention of managers to social accountability affects the quality of other educational, health, and medical services. This fact raises the need for managers to pay more attention to the issue of social accountability.
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BACKGROUND: The literacy level of the elderly is predictive of health behaviors, average hospitalization in health centers, and the type of verbal interaction with health service providers; as the level of literacy changes, the quality of life may also change. This study aimed to determine the relationship between health literacy level and quality of life among the elderly living in nursing homes in 2018-2019. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This study was of a descriptive-analytic, correlation type that was performed on 175 elderly of selected nursing homes in Tehran. The research tools included the Abbreviated Mental Test; Control, Autonomy, Pleasure and Self-realization questionnaire-19; and Health Literacy of Iranian Adults Questionnaire (HELIA). Data were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics by SPSS 22 software. RESULTS: The total score of health literacy and the quality of life of the elderly was 51.01 and 47.75, respectively. The literacy of most of the studied samples was "inadequate" and "not much adequate" (0-66). The relationship between health literacy and quality of life in the elderly was significant, and there was a direct and statistically significant relationship between them (P = 0.003). That is, by an increase in literacy rates, the scores of quality of life of elderly people were also increased. The correlation was equal to r = -0.28. Health literacy has the ability (31.98%) to predict the quality of life. CONCLUSION: The results showed a lack of enough education literacy, the average quality of life, and the existence of a significant relationship between health literacy and quality of life in the elderly. The wide range of inadequate literacy in the elderly reveals the importance of paying more attention to the issue of literacy in health planning and health promotion at the national and local levels.
