Self-concept of the nursing profession among nursing students: An art-based qualitative analysis.

Background: In general, nursing students' self-concept of nursing is associated with their professional competence. Arts-based pedagogical approaches offer a creative way of supporting nursing education that improves clinical practice and creates meaningful learning.

Purpose: The aim of the study is to understand the professional self-concept of nursing students through their self-artwork.

Caring for people with intellectual disabilities: Insights from a cross-sectional study among nursing students.

Background: Caring for people with intellectual disabilities poses substantial challenges. Nursing students' emotions, thoughts, and behaviors during their education in the context of people with intellectual disabilities, remain relatively unexplored.

Objectives: To examine nursing students' emotions, thoughts, competence, and expected professional behaviors in care provision for people with intellectual disabilities, as well as to identify factors associated with their expected professional behaviors with this population.

Decision-making process regarding passive euthanasia: Theory of planned behavior framework.

Background: Nurses have an essential role in caring for end-of-life patients. Nevertheless, the nurse's involvement in the passive euthanasia decision-making process is insufficient and lower than expected.

Objectives: To explore factors associated with nurses' intention to be involved in non-treatment decisions (NTD) regarding passive euthanasia decision-making versus their involvement in the palliative care of patients requesting euthanasia, using the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) framework.

Factors affecting intent to perpetrate violence against nurses: Theory of Planned Behavior approach.

Background: The Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) has been found to predict target behaviors. The literature examining this model lacks attention to violence toward nurses.

Purpose: To explore the association between the public's exposure to violence and intention to employ violence toward nurses, under the TPB framework.

Sophomore nursing students' perception of their Professional Behavior toward Rehabilitation patients: a cross-sectional study.

Background: Rehabilitation is considered one of the elements of universal health coverage, emphasizing its importance for every person in need throughout the life course. Nurses play a pivotal role in the rehabilitation team as they possess the competencies to help individuals manage health problems and maximize potential well-being. Yet, little is known regarding knowledge of this subject among nursing students, as well as regarding their attitudes, thoughts, and professional behavior.

The role of sense of coherence in workplace violence directed at nurses in the shadow of COVID-19: A cross-sectional study.

Aims: To explore (a) the associations between sense of coherence (SOC), previous exposure to COVID-19, and the intention to act violently towards nurses, and (b) the role of SOC and sociodemographic variables as risk or protective factors involved in the intention to act violently.

Design: A cross-sectional study with a convenience sample.

Methods: A structured self-report questionnaire was distributed from February to March 2022.

Perceptions of children with cancer and their parents regarding illness: A qualitative study.

Purpose: The current study aims to understand inter-generational differences and similarities in the perception of illness and the available resources employed by children with cancer and their parents.

Methods: A qualitative descriptive research design was utilized, including face-to-face interviews with 108 parent-child dyads where the children had been diagnosed with cancer, by means of a semi-structured questionnaire. The participants were recruited from two pediatric hematology-oncology wards in two different hospitals in Israel.

Social determinants and adherence to recommended COVID-19 vaccination among the Arab ethnic minority: A syndemics framework.

Background: Since the mass vaccination against SARS-CoV-2 was launched in Israel, the Arab ethnicity minority had lower vaccine uptake. The syndemics theory suggests a closely interrelated complex of health and social crises among vulnerable societies results in an increased disease burden or in more adverse health conditions. Syndemics may explain the health disparities between different people or communities.

Intervention training of urology healthcare staff to counsel acute care inpatients on smoking cessation: An evaluation study.

Aim: To evaluate the differences, following intervention training, in the knowledge, attitudes, role perception, self-capacity and intention of urology staff to counsel inpatients on smoking cessation.

Design: A descriptive evaluation study of intervention training in counselling on smoking cessation. The study was designed following guidance by the Medical Research Council.

Reducing health disparities: Adherence to referrals for further diagnosis among asylum seeking children.

Objective: Asylum-seeking children are most vulnerable to health problems and non-utilization of health amenities. The aim of the study was to compare adherence with referrals for further diagnostic tests among asylum-seeking children and native Israeli children.

Design: A retrospective cohort study.

The Role of Science-Based Knowledge on the SARS-CoV-2 Virus in Reducing COVID-19-Induced Anxiety among Nurses.

The COVID-19 infection has generated not only a risk of morbidity and mortality but also resulted in an enormous psychological impact on healthcare providers and the general public. This study aimed to evaluate the prevalence of anxiety and identify the role of protective factors. A two-part cross-sectional study was conducted, by means of an online questionnaire.

Parents' Adherence to Childhood Screening Tests and Referrals: A Retrospective Cohort Study with Randomized Sampling.

Routine timely examinations of well-child health are important for achieving children's good health outcomes. Nevertheless, there is evidence of low compliance with well-child visit recommendations. The aim of the study was to examine potential factors associated with parents' nonadherence to routine childhood screening tests and their acting on further referrals following unusual findings.

The public's mixed emotional responses to violence directed at nurses: A mixed methods study.

Aims And Objectives: To understand whether exposure to an incident of violence directed at nurses, evoke among the public a sense of identification with the victim or with the perpetrator.

Background: Worldwide, evidence regarding workplace violence (WPV) in healthcare systems, explored the characteristics of the perpetrator, the healthcare settings and staff. Nevertheless, no studies examine the emotions of the public towards WPV in the healthcare systems.

Differences in mental health and health-related quality of life between the Israeli and Italian population during a COVID-19 quarantine.

Purpose: Severe restrictions related to COVID-19 were implemented almost simultaneously in Italy and Israel in early March 2020, although the epidemic situation in both countries was significantly different. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to examine how and to what extent the severe restrictions affected the mental health and health-related quality of life of non-infected people, in a comparison between Israel and Italy.

Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted during the first week of May 2020 among 510 Israeli and 505 Italian participants.

The effect of evidence-based practice perception, information literacy self-efficacy, and academic motivation on nursing students' future implementation of evidence-based practice.

Background: Evidence-based practice (EBP) in nursing is an important tool for promoting quality care and improving patient outcomes. Global evidence suggests that the rate of EBP implementation among nurses and nursing students is low. The effects of EBP perception, information literacy self-efficacy, and academic motivation on nursing students' future implementation of EBP have not been fully explored.

Association Between Witnessing and Justifying Workplace Violence Towards Nurses in Israel.

Background: Workplace violence perpetrated by patients and their families towards nurses has become a global problem.

Purpose: The present study explores associations between individuals' having witnessed violent incidents in the past and holding attitudes justifying violence in the present, and their intention to behave violently in a nurse-patient interaction at a healthcare facility.

Design: A cross-sectional study sampled 1,350 participants from among the general public in Israel.

Knowledge and information credibility evaluation strategies regarding COVID-19: A cross-sectional study.

Background: The novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has not only caused significant challenges for health systems worldwide, but also fueled a surge in misinformation. Nurses as frontline health care providers should be equipped with the most accurate information on COVID-19.

Purpose: This study examines nurses' knowledge and strategies of information credibility sourcing.

Different Reasons for Not Completing Routine Vaccinations Among Jewish and Arab Children in Israel.

Minority communities are at high risk for low childhood vaccination coverage rates. This paper compared the rate of children not fully vaccinated and the reasons for that between Jewish (majority) and Arab (minority) children in Israel. This cross-sectional study screened the medical files of 14,232 children (12,360 Jewish and 1872 Arab), registered at Mother-Child Health Clinics in two large geographical area, to identify children who did not complete the last dose of hepatitis B and DTaP or first dose of MMR vaccines.

Public knowledge, attitudes, and intention to act violently, with regard to violence directed at health care staff.

Background: Violence directed at health care staff is widely prevalent. Few studies have explored public attitudes regarding violence against health care staff.

Purposes: To examine the Israeli public's attitudes regarding violence against health care staff and their intention to act violently in various health care settings.

It Takes Two to Tango: Public Attitudes Toward Prevention of Workplace Violence Against Health Care Staff: A Mixed-Methods Study.

Workplace violence (WPV) directed toward health care staff by patients and their relatives has become one of the major problems faced by health care systems around the world. Incidences of WPV have increased over the past decade, crossing borders and cultures and creating a worrisome global phenomenon. To date, most of the research has examined health care workers' perceptions of strategies that might prevent violence.

A path analysis model suggesting the association between health locus of control and compliance with childhood vaccinations.

Despite vaccines benefits, parent's vaccine hesitancy is growing. Health locus of control (HLOC) may affect decision making regarding child vaccinations. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between parents' HLOC and compliance with routine childhood immunization programs.

Growth, developmental achievements and vaccines timeliness of undocumented migrant children from Eritrea compared with Israelis.

Introduction: Israel has absorbed >40,000 Eritrean undocumented migrants since 2007, while the majority live in the southern neighborhoods of Tel-Aviv. As non-citizens and citizens infants in Israel receive free preventive treatment at the mother and child health clinics (MCHC), this study aimed to compare development and growth achievements between children of Eritrean mothers (CE) to children of Israeli mothers (CI), and assess their compliance to routine follow-up and vaccination-timeliness.

Methods: This cohort study included all Israeli-born CE between 2009 and 2011, compared with a random sample of CI and treated at the same MCHC and followed-up to the age of 30-months.

[SOCIAL-ECONOMIC-DEMOGRAPHIC DIFFERENCES IN REASONS NOT TO COMPLY IN TIME WITH ROUTINE CHILDHOOD VACCINATIONS].

Background: In recent years, there has been an increase in parents who do not comply with recommended routine vaccines. The vaccination coverage rates in Israel are known, but the reasons for not completing immunizations are unknown. The aim of this study was to assess the extent of failure to complete the routine vaccinations in time and the reasons among different population groups.

Parents with high levels of communicative and critical health literacy are less likely to vaccinate their children.

Objective: To investigate the relationship between parents' health literacy and decision-making regarding child vaccinations.

Methods: A cross-sectional survey was conducted among 731 parents of children aged 3-4 years. Functional, communicative, and critical health literacy (HL), knowledge, beliefs, reliability of the vaccine's information resources, and vaccine's attitudes were measured.