Publications by authors named "Poortaghi S"

Objectives: This study explores the factors leading to decreased professional commitment among nurses and proposes actionable solutions to mitigate the challenges posed by this phenomenon in nursing.

Methods: This research was conducted by employing the scoping review methodology. To this end, the relevant studies were obtained by two researchers independently searching over Scopus, Medline (via PubMed), Proquest, SID, Magiran, and Web of Science databases.

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  • - The study explores the impact of retirement syndrome on older adults, highlighting feelings of emptiness, loneliness, and dissatisfaction that can accompany retirement, and emphasizes the need for adaptive interventions like support groups.
  • - A quasi-experimental study involved 80 retired adults from Iran, divided into intervention and control groups, where the intervention group participated in four support group sessions over eight weeks.
  • - Results indicated significant reductions in feelings of helplessness, idleness, and confusion among the participants in the support group, suggesting that these groups can effectively help seniors cope with retirement challenges.
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Background And Aim: Management of falling and its consequences is a major challenge of elderly nursing care. An effective educational strategy is essential to prevent falling among elderly people. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of simulated video education (SVE) about falling on falling rate and fear of falling (FOF) among hospitalized elderly people.

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Background: The quality of care has a significant impact on the condition of elderly patients. Many factors affect the quality of care, including ethical considerations. Ethical considerations, such as moral sensitivity, change in times of crisis.

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Background: The prevalence of chronic diseases is increasing worldwide. Implementing educational programs is an important step in prevention of chronic diseases in the community setting. This study was conducted to assess the effect of educational program based on the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) on the osteoporosis preventive behaviors in middle-aged individuals.

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Background: The COVID-19 pandemic is a serious threat to public health worldwide. Therefore, a coordinated global response is needed to prepare health care systems to face this unprecedented challenge. Proper human resource management can increase nurses' productivity and quality of care.

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Aim: This study aimed to determine comprehensive and applicable indicators for assessing the quality of nursing clinical services.

Design: Methodological research.

Methods: The checklist was designed in three phases (conceptualization, item generation and item reduction).

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Background: Clinical services evaluation with specific indicators are very helpful to identify improvable points. This study was conducted to analyze the factors affecting the quality of clinical nursing services and offer practical solutions for accreditation of clinical nursing services.

Methods: The present study was conducted using Delphi method with two rounds.

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Background: Health Promoting Hospitals are among the major health promoters of the society. To acquire Health Promoting Hospital (HPH) status, a hospital must self-assess to know their inadequacies and then lay the foundation for improvements. This study has been performed with the aim of assessing readiness of the largest heart hospital of northwestern Iran regarding the HPH standards.

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Introduction: Among earthquake survivors, children are more vulnerable than other age groups due to their exposure to harrowing scenes of devastation as well as their drastically new living situations that result from an earthquake disaster. The life process of children survivors undergoes many different changes that are affected by a wide range of factors. Understanding the life process of these children may lead to effective outcomes and interventions.

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Healing occurs in a safe milieu, and patients feel safe when service providers view them as whole persons, recognizing the multiple underlying factors that cause illness. Cultural safety can lead to service delivery in this way, but most nurses have no clear understanding of this concept. This study aimed to clarify cultural safety on the basis of Rodgers' evolutionary concept analysis.

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Background: Although the research in health seeking behavior has been evolving, its concept remains ambiguous. Concept clarification, as a central basis of developing knowledge, plays an undeniable role in the formation of nursing sciences. As the initial step toward the development of theories and theoretical models, concept analysis is broadly used through which the goals can be used and tested.

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Background: Although using the nursing process improves nursing care quality, few studies have evaluated nursing performance in accordance with nursing process steps either nationally or internationally.

Objectives: This study aimed to audit nursing care based on a nursing process model.

Patients And Methods: This was a cross-sectional descriptive study in which a nursing audit checklist was designed and validated for assessing nurses' compliance with nursing process.

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Background: The prevalence of coronary heart disease is increasing worldwide contributing to mortality and morbidity of millions of people. Cardiac rehabilitation is an interdisciplinary activity with the aim of facilitating and improving the physical, psychological and emotional state of the patients with cardiac complications. This study aimed to evaluate the probable positive effects of continuing cardiac rehabilitation programs at home on self-efficacy of the patients with cardiac complications.

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Objective: To determine whether continuing cardiac rehabilitation programs at home has positive effects on psychological and general health of the participants' in comparison with the control group.

Methods: This randomized controlled trial was conducted in Tabriz Shahid Madani rehabilitation center, Tabriz, Iran between February 2009 and January 2010. Eighty patients referred to the rehabilitation center were randomly divided into case and control groups.

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