The Relationship Between Perceived Comfort Level with Moral Sensitivity and Moral Distress Among Oncology Nurses: A Descriptive Correlational Study.

Objective: This study aimed to investigate the relationship between perceived comfort level with moral distress and moral sensitivity among oncology nurses METHODS: This is a descriptive-correlational study on 210 oncology nurses. The samples were selected through the convenience method from September 2020 to February 2022 in the oncology centers of Ahvaz, Iran. Data were collected via a demographic form, Lutzen's Modified Moral Sensitivity Questionnaire, Corley's Moral Distress Scale, and Kolcaba's Nurses Comfort Questionnaire (NCQ).

Caring ability and its related factors in the family caregivers of patients with cancer.

Background: Caregivers of cancer patients experience a variety of challenges caused by the prolonged burden of care. Many of these caregivers do not have the necessary knowledge, skills and caring ability to fulfil their caring role. Therefore, healthcare providers should support them in learning to provide high-quality care.

Demographic variables, anthropometric indices, sleep quality, Metabolic Equivalent Task (MET), and developing diabetes in the southwest of Iran.

Propose: The present study has sought to investigate the prevalence of diabetes and its related risk factors, to examine the relationship between demographic variables, anthropometric indices, sleep quality, and Metabolic Equivalent Task (MET) with diabetes in Khuzestan province, southwest Iran.

Methods: The present study has a cross-sectional design (the baseline data of the Hoveyzeh cohort study as a sub-branch of the Persian Prospective Cohort Study). Comprehensive information from 10,009 adults (aged 35-70 years) was collected from May 2016 to August 2018 through a multi-part general questionnaire containing general characteristics, marital status, education, smoking, sleep quality, MET, and anthropometric indices.

Investigating the Relationship between Empowerment and Chronic Pain Acceptance and the Resulting Limitations in the Elderly with Diabetes Living Southwest of Iran.

Background Aim: Considering the importance of pain acceptance in adjusting to chronic pain among diabetic patients, this study was conducted to determine the relationship between the empowerment scale and the level of chronic pain acceptance among the elderly with diabetes and the resulting limitations.

Method: This is a descriptive-analytical study on 250 older patients (65 years and older) with diabetes. The samples were selected through random convenience sampling, performed during 2019 to 2020 in the health centers of Ahvaz, Iran.

Hospice care delivery system requirements.

Background: Hospice care is a perceived need in the Iranian health system.

Aim: This qualitative study is explaining the stakeholders' perception of what is required to develop a hospice care system for patients living with cancer in Iran.

Methods: A total of 21 participants (specialists, policymakers, healthcare providers, cancer patients and family caregivers) were selected through purposeful sampling and interviewed in-depth in 2020.

Caregivers' Knowledge of and Attitude towards Palliative Care in Iran.

Background: Addressing the palliative care needs requires clinicians to have sufficient knowledge of and positive attitudes toward palliative care. The study aimed to determine nurses' and physicians' knowledge of and attitudes towards palliative care in Iran.

Methods: This descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted in 2021 on 493 physicians and nurses, selected through convenience sampling.

Sense of coherence or self-efficacy as predictors of health-related quality of life in sickle cell disease patients.

Patients with sickle cell disease (SCD) suffer from impaired health-related quality of life (HRQoL). This study aimed to determine the level of HRQoL, sense of coherence (SOC), and self-efficacy (SE) in a sample of SCD patients, and to explore predictors of their physical and mental HRQoL. A cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted on 83 SCD patients of one university hospital.

Developing a Model for the Establishment of the Hospice Care Delivery System for Iranian Adult Patients With Cancer.

Introduction: Making appropriate plans for the provision of hospice care is considered a perceived need in the Iranian health system. The current study aimed to develop a model for establishing hospice care delivery system for the adult patients with cancer.

Materials And Methods: This study is part (data of the third and fourth phases) of a larger study that has been done in four phases.

Predictors and Correlates of Fatigue in Sickle Cell Disease Patients.

Although fatigue is the most important symptom of Sickle Cell Disease, the extent of it is unknown, and causal mechanisms are not well understood. This article explores biopsychosocial characteristics that can potentially contribute to fatigue in SCD. This cross-sectional, correlational study included 97 SCD patients who aged over 16 years and had records in Thalassemia Ward and Clinic of Shafa Hospital affiliated to Ahvaz University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran.

Disaster nursing in Iran: challenges and opportunities.

Background And Objective: Disaster nursing was one of the first forms of nursing practice in Iran, and nurses have long served voluntarily in disasters. Despite their key role throughout a disaster management cycle, few studies have examined nurses' unique role in the management of disasters in this region of the world.

Methods: An integrative narrative analysis of international research published in English and Persian studies between years 2000 and 2013 was conducted.