BMC Med Educ
December 2024
Background: Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming increasingly important in healthcare, with a significant impact on nursing practice. As future healthcare practitioners, nursing students must be prepared to incorporate AI technologies into their job. This study aimed to explore the associated factors with nursing students' intention to use AI.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Caring for individuals with chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a highly demanding task that can adversely affect the physical and psychological well-being of caregivers.
Objective: This study aimed to investigate the burden experienced by caregivers of patients undergoing hemodialysis (HD) in Oman and explore the factors associated with this burden, including demographic and medical characteristics.
Methods: A descriptive cross-sectional was employed.
Int J Community Based Nurs Midwifery
January 2024
Background: The challenges faced by parents of adolescents with mental disorders are profound and multifaceted. Therefore, this study aimed to explore the lived experiences and concerns of parents of adolescents with mental disorders in Oman.
Methods: Interpretative phenomenological analysis was employed in this study.
Cancer incidence in the world is predicted to increase in the next decade. While progress has been in diagnosis and treatment, much still remains to be done to improve cancer pain therapy, mainly in underserved communities in low-income countries. To determine knowledge, beliefs, and barriers regarding pain management in both high- and low-income countries (according to the WHO classification); and to learn about ways to improve the current state of affairs.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: Little is known about the factors affecting the perceived frequency of event reporting among healthcare workers, especially registered nurses in Oman. This study aimed to assess whether fatigue, workload, burnout and work environment as independent variables have a relationship with frequency of event reporting as the dependent variable and to what extent the independent variables predict the frequency of event reporting between nurses working in different intensive care units (ICU) in selected hospitals in Oman.
Methods: This cross-sectional study used standardised questionnaires of hospital survey on patient safety culture, a fatigue assessment scale, the Maslach burnout inventory-human services survey, the NASA task load index and the practice environment scale of the nursing work index.
Background: Patient satisfaction was defined as expectation and perception of the patients about real nursing care they receive.
Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate the quality of oncology nursing care as perceived by patients with cancer in 3 Arabic countries (Jordan, Oman, and Egypt).
Methods: A cross-sectional design with convenience sampling approach was used.
Background: Chemotherapy-induced neutropenia is a serious global health concern. It is essential that student nurses who are the future of healthcare are equipped with the right knowledge to care for the unique needs of patients with neutropenia.
Objective: The study assesses student nurses' knowledge of neutropenia management and examines the difference in their knowledge with regard to their demographics.
Disaster Med Public Health Prep
June 2021
Background: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak has been declared a pandemic and has affected both patients and health-care workers. This study was conducted to explore the extent of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) experiences among nurses because of the COVID-19 pandemic in Jordan.
Methods: This study used a cross-sectional study design with a convenience sampling approach.
Objectives: The aim of this pilot psychometric study was to develop and assess the reliability, validity, and applicability of a nursing clinical assessment tool (NCAT) to assess students' clinical performance in the clinical training.
Methods: Total of 325 forms were completed by 36 clinical raters for undergraduate nursing students who were selected using convenience sampling. International quality and safety education for nurses (QSEN) and Benson and Clark's (Benson, J.
Background: Given the restrictions associated with COVID-19, feelings of loneliness among youth may increase.
Aims: The aims of the current study were to assess the prevalence of loneliness among young people at the time of COVID-19 and to identify whether selected variables related to the pandemic predicted the level of loneliness.
Method: A cross-sectional study using WhatsApp and Facebook social media platforms was conducted to survey 1,057 young people aged 15 to 24 years from six Middle Eastern countries.
Purpose: A good understanding of children's emotions, activities, and needs should be promoted. This study assessed temper tantrum behaviour, including frequency, severity, duration, common behaviours, reasons, locations, contexts, and parent's strategies, among Jordanian children aged 24-48 months.
Design And Methods: A cross-sectional design was used to conduct this study.
Objectives: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a communicable disease transmitted via respiratory droplet from 1 person to another caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). This study aims to investigate the knowledge, attitudes, and practice of Jordanian people toward COVID-19 during the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition, the paper explores the lack of perception and adherence to preventive measures toward COVID-19.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: There are adverse side effects associated with handling chemotherapy; however, using safe-handling precautions can minimize or prevent these potential effects. Despite availability of international guidelines for chemotherapy handling, adherence to precautions is below expectations. This study examined knowledge of safe-handling precautions among a sample of oncology nurses in Jordon.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAsia Pac J Oncol Nurs
October 2020
Objective: Care needs among Arabic cancer patients have not been assessed previously due to the lack of translated instrument that can determine the care needs among the cancer patients in Arab countries. The aim of this study was to translate and validate an Arabic version of the Cancer Needs Questionnaire-Short Form (CNQ-SF).
Methods: A cross-cultural adaptation and psychometric testing was used.
Disaster Med Public Health Prep
August 2022
Depression and anxiety are prevalent mental illnesses among young people. Crisis like the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic may increase the current prevalence of these illnesses. A cross-sectional, descriptive design was used to (1) explore the prevalence of depression, anxiety, and stress among youth and (2) identify to what extent certain variables related to COVID-19 could predict depression, anxiety, and stress (DAS) among young people in six different countries.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis study aimed to assess the prevalence of smoking and associated sociodemographic and economic factors as well as students' knowledge about and attitudes towards smoking among university students in Oman. A proportionate random sampling technique recruited 401 students from three universities in a cross-sectional study. The prevalence of smoking was 9.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Up to 35% of cancer patients have clinically significant levels of psychological distress during their treatment. Accordingly, better understanding of health-related quality of life and its predictors will help oncology nurses plan appropriate interventions to improve health-related quality of life.
Aims: This study was conducted to investigate the relationship between hope, depression and anxiety and health-related quality of life among Jordanian cancer patients during their treatment period.
A study was conducted to explore whether fatigue, workload, burnout and the work environment can predict the perceptions of patient safety among critical care nurses in Oman. A cross-sectional predictive design was used. A sample of 270 critical care nurses from the two main hospitals in the country's capital participated, with a response rate of 90%.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: The objective was to identify and understand the coping strategies of colorectal cancer (CRC) patients.
Methods: A mixed-methods approach including quantitative and qualitative methods was used to collect data from Jordanian patients. In the quantitative phase, we aimed to determine the coping strategies employed in a representative sample ( = 200) of Jordanian adult patients with CRC using the Jalowiec Coping Scale.
Proper assessment of patients' needs might enhance patients' outcomes, ability to cope with new challenges, identify required resources, prioritize service needs, determine patients with higher need levels, and improve patients' quality of life. A cross-sectional descriptive design was used. Total of 113 patients from different settings completed the study surveys including demographic sheet, Short-form cancer needs questionnaire (CNQ-SF), Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-General (FACT-G), and European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer Quality of Life Questionnaire (EORTC QLQ-INFO 25).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEast Mediterr Health J
November 2019
Background: Fatigue is the most reported and most distressing symptom among patients with cancer. However, no questionnaire that measures fatigue and fatigue interference with life has been translated into Arabic.
Aims: This study aimed to translate and validate the Arabic version of the Brief Fatigue Inventory (BFI-A).
Background: Importantly, little is known about the cancer patients' perceptions about nurses' caring behaviors in Arab countries (Jordan specifically). This is mainly related to a lack of short Arabic instruments that measure nurse-patient interaction from a caring perspective.
Objective: To translate and validate an Arabic version of the Caring Nurse-Patient Interaction Scale-Patient Version (CNPI-23P).
To date, there is no specific, valid, and reliable scale in the Arabic language to measure CIPN. The purpose of this study was to translate and validate the Arabic version of the EORTC QLQ-CIPN20. A cross-cultural adaptation and psychometric testing were used.
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