Publications by authors named "Huda A Anshasi"

Background: The increasing pressure of their professional duties has led to a notable concern regarding the mounting anxiety levels among nurses. The ongoing discussion revolves around the efficacy of mindfulness as a means to alleviate anxiety in nurses.

Aim: This systematic review evaluated the effectiveness of mindfulness in reducing anxiety among nurses.

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Purpose: This study aims to explore nurses' experiences of delivering spiritual care in an oncology setting.

Methods: An exploratory- descriptive qualitative design. Focus groups were conducted to gather data.

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Aim: To determine the sources of occupational stress and the level of quality of life among nurses caring for older people in Lebanon and examine the underlying factors to predict nurses' quality of life.

Design: A descriptive correlational design.

Methods: Data were collected from 119 nurses using Nursing Stress Scale and WHO-Quality of Life Brief.

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Aims: This study aimed to evaluate the effect of the stress management interventional program in reducing occupational stress and improving coping strategies among public health nurses.

Design: A double-blind, cluster-randomized approach was used as a randomization method for this study to evaluate the stress management interventional program.

Methods: A cluster-randomized controlled trial was carried out in eight comprehensive healthcare centres in Amman city, Jordan; four centres were randomly assigned to each experimental and control group.

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Background: Pain and anxiety have negative effects on the treatment of patients with cancer. Virtual reality technology is a form of distraction which is still unclear in its methodological quality in reducing pain and anxiety.

Aims: To summarize and evaluate the methodological quality of primary studies on the virtual reality (VR) technology for the management of pain and anxiety among patients with cancer, and to analyze the effectiveness of VR in the reviewed studies.

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Background: The level of occupational stress of nurses working in intensive and critical care units is high. Although many studies have assessed the effectiveness of stress management interventions among intensive and critical care nurses, the methodological quality of these studies remains unclear.

Purpose: The purpose of this review was to summarize and appraise the methodological quality of primary studies on interventions for management of occupational stress among intensive and critical care nurses.

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Purpose: The purpose of this study was to explore the perceptions and attitudes toward interprofessional simulation-based education among Lebanese senior nursing students.

Methods: The study used an exploratory descriptive qualitative approach and collected data through focus groups. All focus group discussions were audiotaped, transcribed verbatim, and narratives were compared with the recordings to establish accuracy, credibility and reliability of data.

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Purposes: This study aimed to (1) assess the level of diabetes self-care knowledge among patients with diabetes mellitus and (2) examine the relationship between patients' diabetes self-care knowledge and their demographic and medical characteristics.

Methods: A cross-sectional design was used to implement the study. A convenience sample of 273 diabetic patients were recruited from five primary health-care centers in Amman- Jordan.

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Background And Purpose: There currently exist many systematic reviews aimed at assessing acupuncture and related therapy effectiveness in cancer-related pain management. However, the methodological quality of existing systematic reviews remains unclear. The purpose of this review was to summarize and evaluate the methodological quality of these systematic reviews and meta-analyses papers.

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