Exploring Knowledge, Safety Practices, and Anxiety Level among Women of Reproductive Age During COVID-19 Outbreak: A Cross-Sectional Study.

Background: The global outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and its consequences compromise the health of Women of Reproductive Age (WRA). The aim of this study was to assess the level of knowledge, safety practices, and anxiety levels among WRA during COVID-19 outbreaks.

Materials And Methods: A cross-sectional, correlational design was used to recruit a convenience sample of 453 WRA in Saudi Arabia.

Nurses' Attitudes Concerning Analgesia Administration for Pediatric Patients with Sickle Cell Disease in Jordan: A Cross-Sectional Study.

Background: Pain management of vaso-occlusive crises is a fundamental priority in the lifelong care of children and adolescents with sickle cell disease.

Aim: This study examined nurses' attitudes towards caring for children with sickle cell disease (SCD) and SCD pain management in those with vaso-occlusive pain.

Method: A structured, self-reporting survey was provided to a convenience sample of 298 nurses across 10 hospitals serving Jordan's northern and middle regions.

Receiving antenatal care via mobile clinic: Lived experiences of Jordanian mothers.

Objective: To understand the perceptions of pregnant Jordanian women who received antenatal care via mobile clinic, and to contribute new insights into the experiences of these mothers and how they evaluated the services that were available.

Methods: Ten Jordanian mothers who had received antenatal care at a mobile clinic discussed their experiences in semi-structured, audiotaped interviews in a study that adopted a qualitative research design. The analysis was done using interpretative phenomenological analysis.

The effect of a contact-based intervention on attitudes and intended behaviors of nursing students toward people with mental illness: A quasi-experimental study.

Background And Aim: Although nursing students are professionally and ethically trained and educated to respect patients with a variety of medical and mental problems, they continue to exhibit negative attitudes and behaviors toward mental disease and patients with mental illness. The accumulated evidence indicates that contact-based intervention (CBI) is helpful in enhancing nursing students' attitudes and behaviors toward patients with mental illness. Although evidence found to support the CBI, culture and settings might play a significant role to decide its effectiveness.

Healthcare providers' intention to leave their jobs during COVID-19 pandemic: A cross-sectional study.

Background And Aims: During the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19), healthcare providers confronted risks of disease transmission to themselves and their family members, resulting in physical and psychological burdens. This might affect their decisions to leave their jobs temporarily or permanently, fearing infection and protecting their families. This study examined the factors related to the intention to leave a job among healthcare providers during the COVID-19 pandemic in Jordan.

The experience of family support among patients newly diagnosed with cancer in Jordan.

Purpose: To describe the experiences of family support from the perspectives of patients newly diagnosed with cancer.

Methods: Descriptive qualitative phenomenological design was undertaken, including in-depth individual interviews with 13 newly diagnosed cancer patients from two hospitals in Jordan.

Results: Three themes emerged: 'being there,' 'family reunion and connectedness,' and 'gratified with family support.

The visualization of stress in clinical training: A study of nursing students' perceptions.

Aim: To determine the perceived level and types of stress experienced by nursing students during clinical training.

Design: A descriptive correlational cross-sectional design.

Methods: A convenience sample of 238 nursing students was recruited.

Nurses' stressors and their quality of life: A study on nurses caring for older patients.

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.

Sleep quality, sleep latency, and sleep duration: a national comparative study of university students in Jordan.

Background: Sleep problems have significant negative health consequences on university students.

Study Aim: To assess subjective sleep quality, sleep latency, and sleep duration in a national sample of university students and investigate differences in these components with selected variables.

Methods: A cross-sectional analysis and multi-stage sampling were conducted to select a sample of 1308 students from three major areas in Jordan.

Comparing student achievement in traditional learning with a combination of blended and flipped learning.

Aim: The aim of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of blended learning with a flipped classroom design on student academic achievement in a Bachelor of Science in Nursing course.

Design: A quasi-experimental study.

Method: Students were split into an experimental blended learning with a flipped classroom design group and a control group using the traditional, teacher-centred learning method.

Determinants of Substance Use Among High School Students in Jordan.

Background: Substance use is becoming a global health problem that concerns health professionals and decision makers. Studies showed that teens are at higher risk for substance use.

Purpose: the purpose of this study was to examine the prediction power of the selected sociodemographic and psychological factors on substance use among high school students in Jordan.

Pre-existing chronic kidney disease and acute kidney injury among critically ill patients.

Background: The impact of pre-existing chronic kidney disease (CKD) and acute kidney injury (AKI) on health outcomes in critically ill patients is unclear. Yet, CKD complicated by AKI in critically ill patients is common.

Objectives: To compare risk of death within one-month of admission in critically ill patients with and without pre-existing CKD who developed AKI.

Perception of diabetes management and cardiovascular disease risk among men with type 2 diabetes: A qualitative study.

Aim: The aim of this study was to explore the perception and understanding of men with type 2 diabetes about their illness control, risk for CVD and their adherence to healthcare management plans in Jordan.

Design: A qualitative descriptive design was used, recruiting a purposive sample of 13 men diagnosed with type 2 diabetes.

Methods: Data were collected between February and April 2019 through in-depth semi-structured interviews and analysed using content analysis.

An explorative study of workplace violence against nurses who care for older people.

Aim: To explore the prevalence of workplace violence among nurses who care for older people and its association with working stress, job satisfaction and quality of care in Jordan.

Design: A cross-sectional design was used.

Methods: A cluster random sampling was used to select three public hospitals, three private hospitals and 17 healthcare centres in Amman, Jordan.

Cancer Pain Management at Oncology Units: Comparing Knowledge, Attitudes and Perceived Barriers Between Physicians and Nurses.

Pain is a major symptom that causes suffering among patients diagnosed with cancer. Identifying physicians' and nurses' knowledge, attitudes, and their perceived barriers of cancer pain management is considered an essential step in improving cancer pain relief. The purposes of this study are to compare physicians' and nurses' knowledge and attitudes toward cancer pain management (CPM) and describe their perceived barriers to CPM at oncology units.

Psychosocial Predictors of Relapse Among Patients with Alcohol Problems.

Background: Alcohol abuse is a common problem that is socially, psychologically and economically devastating to health of individuals.

Objectives: the purpose of this study was to examine the interrelationship between alcohol relapse, self efficacy, perceived social support, and perceived stress among individual diagnosed with alcohol dependence.

Methods: A cross-sectional descriptive correlational design was utilized to collect data using self-administered questionnaire from a purposeful sample of 111 Jordanians diagnosed with alcohol dependence.