Anxiety, Depression, Body Mass Index, Physical Activity in Nomophobic Italian Nurses: A Chronic Latent Inflammation?

Aim: To investigate which risk factors are strictly connected to nomophobia in Italian nurses, according to socio-demographic characteristics, Body Mass Index scores, physical activity habits, anxiety, and depression.

Methods: An "ad hoc" online questionnaire has been created and then administered to Italian nurses. Data include sex, age, years of work experience, shift work per day, nursing educational level, Body Mass Index, physical activity, anxiety, depression, and nomophobia conditions.

Acute myocardium infarction: difficulties and interventions perceived by Italian nurses and physicians.

Background: Among cardiovascular diseases, acute coronary syndrome is the main cause of mortality and morbidity in the Western industrialized countries. Evidence suggested how continuous updating in cardiovascular area both for nurses and physicians was essential to improve patient outcomes in clinical process, welfare and rehabilitation, since physicians and nurses could play a key role in empowering the care of patients affected by the acute myocardium infarction (AMI). Although the correlation between continuous training and improvement of nursing care was therefore clear, the difficulties that nurses encountered in AMI patients' management remained unexplored.