Int J Nurs Educ Scholarsh
January 2025
Objectives: This study explores and describes the lived experiences of international nursing students regarding studying challenges.
Methods: This is a qualitative descriptive phenomenological study. Participants were undergraduate international nursing students who were purposively selected.
Background: This study was conducted to describe and explain the culture of patient care in international nursing students.
Methods: This qualitative study was conducted using focused ethnography. Participants (n = 21) were purposefully selected from non-Iranian international students and their nursing instructors.
Iran J Nurs Midwifery Res
January 2022
Background: The theory-practice gap can be described as a lack of ability to relate the knowledge acquired in academics and research work with practice. This study aims to assess the knowledge and the perception of Nigerian nurses on the theory-practice gap in Nursing.
Materials And Methods: This cross-sectional correlational study was carried out with a sample of 196 nurses who were working in the Federal Medical Centre Keffi and Aminu Kano Teaching hospital in Kano, all from the northern part of Nigeria, from April to June 2019.
Background: Feedings based on behavioral cues is a method relying on infants' behavioral expressions of readiness to feed. The objective of this interventional study was to determine the effect of cue-based feeding on the short-term health outcomes of preterm infants.
Methods: This quasi-experimental study utilized a historical or phase lag design.
Background: The integration of paediatric palliative care into the Iranian health system is essential.
Aims: The aim of this study was to identify the challenges of palliative care in the paediatric intensive care unit during COVID-19 through the experiences of healthcare providers.
Methods: A qualitative study with content analysis approach was conducted.
Objective: The objective of this study was to evaluate the relationship of lifestyle with disease activity among patients with systemic lupus erythematosus.
Methods: This cross-sectional descriptive-correlational study was conducted in 2019 on 209 patients with systemic lupus erythematosus. Data were collected using a demographic and clinical characteristics questionnaire, the Health-Promoting Lifestyle Profile II, and the systemic lupus erythematosus disease activity Index.
Objectives: Children in the intensive care unit experience a high level of pain and anxiety. This study aimed to reveal the health care providers experience of non-pharmacological pain and anxiety management and its barriers in the pediatric intensive care unit.
Methods: This qualitative-descriptive study was conducted with thirteen nurses and five physicians in the pediatric intensive care unit in Iran.
Background: Pediatric cancer is a global problem, and some studies have emphasized that nurses caring for these children experience work-related challenges. This has caused many children diagnosed with cancer to have a prolonged hospital stay and suffer unnecessary pain. However, there is insufficient documentary evidence on this issue.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAim: To provide insights into nurses lived experiences in caring for children with cancer.
Background: Little is known about the paediatric oncology nurses shared practices of caring for children with cancer in Ghana.
Design: A hermeneutic phenomenological qualitative study.
Background: Premenstrual syndrome (PMS) refers to a set of somatic and psychological symptoms that occur cyclically in the luteal phase of a menstrual cycle. There is no report of final result of reflexology on PMS. Therefore, the present study aimed to determine the effect of reflexology on PMS through a systematic review and meta-analysis study.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: patient advocacy is a major nursing role, which is linked to supporting, encouraging and reinforcing self-advocacy in patients. Patient safety is an important nursing outcome, especially in older adults.
Aims: older adults' self-advocacy regarding patient safety behaviour and its relationship with some demographic characteristics were assessed.
Medicina (Kaunas)
August 2019
: This study aimed to assess the level of HIV disclosure to children in sub-Saharan Africa as it relates to prevalence of disclosure, barriers, merits and demerits, timing of disclosure, and factors that promote parents and caregivers' decisions to disclose the information. A systematic literature search was performed using the following online databases: PubMed, Google Scholar, Web of Science, Scopus, and Embase, to obtain relevant articles on HIV disclosure to children in sub-Saharan Africa. The following search terms were used: "HIV" AND "Disclosure" AND "Sub-Saharan Africa" AND "Children".
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Patients' family members often do not receive sufficient information, especially because the reproductive system of women is considered a taboo, providing information becomes problematic. The aim of the current study was to explore the informational-educational needs of companions of the patients who were undergoing gynecological surgery.
Materials And Methods: This study was conducted using inductive and conventional content analysis method.
All schools of thought believe that infancy is crucial to the formation and development of the human character. Nevertheless, a search of literature revealed the lack of a clear definition of the concept of 'infancy care based on an Islamic perspective' in nursing texts. As the lack of a clear definition of a concept conveys the inapplicability of that concept to its relevant field and community, this study was conducted to explore and determine the characteristic features of the concept of infancy care based on the perspective of Islam.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn this systematic literature review, all the Shiite-Islamic documents (Quran and Hadith) without any time limitation were surveyed, analyzed and synthesized for the purpose of determining the foundations of lifelong health. The data were analyzed and combined using inductive qualitative content analysis method. Two main categories were emerged from the analysis: "prevention of health problems" and "health maintenance and promotion.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Sleep is essential for organizing and maturation of the brain in premature infants; it also plays a role in maintaining the natural balance between different nervous centers. Given the role of nurses in neonatal sleep care, this study aimed at assessing the impact of a training program on the nurses' knowledge and performance in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU).
Materials And Methods: In this quasi-experimental study which structured into three stages, 35 nurses working in an NICU in Isfahan, Iran, were included.
Introduction: The birth of an infant requiring hospitalization in the neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) uniformly is reported to be stressful for parents and family members. This study aimed to determine parent-staff communication in the NICU and its relationship to parent stress.
Materials And Methods: Two hundred and three Iranian parents with preterm infants hospitalized in the NICU participated in this descriptive-correlational study.
Iran J Nurs Midwifery Res
January 2017
Background: Children with cleft lip and/or palate frequently experience feeding difficulties that may place them at risk of malnutrition. Parents' negative response to these problems is associated with development of problematic behaviors in the child. This study aimed to investigate feeding behavior in children with cleft lip and/or palate and parental responses to these problems.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInfant hospitalization is stressful event for parent in NICU. Parents think that they have lost control because of unfamiliar environment. Therefore, stress management is very important in this period.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIran Red Crescent Med J
June 2016
Background: Hospitalization of a neonate in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) can be a stressful event for parents. They need specific information and communication to alleviate their stress, but these parental needs are not met by NICU staff. Exploration of these needs can help health professionals to provide better healthcare services.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Educ Health Promot
August 2016
Background And Aims: Newborn death is an unexpected outcome for parents. Parents face with several needs in infant end-of-life. The health care team is responsible for meet these needs.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFContext: The hospital is a place full of distress and questions about the meaning of life. The death of a child can cause a spiritual struggle and crisis. Therefore, it is necessary for health care providers in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) to assess the spiritual needs of families that have lost a child.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Deprivation of parents might decrease self-esteem (SE) and result in affective and social incompatibility. In this randomized control trial, we examined the effect of aerobics exercise on SE among female adolescents living with no natural family.
Materials And Methods: The sample consisted of all female adolescents aged 13 to 19 years (n: 72) who were covered by Isfahan Welfare organization.