Showing 10 results for Mahmoodi
Mojgan Kalantarzadeh, Dr Mahbobeh Safavi, Dr Mahmood Mahmoodi,
Volume 9, Issue 2 (1-2013)
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Background and Objective: Parkinson disease (PD) is a common neuro degenerative disorder, which is chronic and progressive. The specialized PD nurse is needed to give better care services. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the impact of nursing roles on the nurses′ knowledge and attitude toward taking care of patients suffering from Parkinson.
Material and Methods: In this quasi-experimental study conducted in 2009, 102 nurses of Kerman University of Medical Sciences were selected and divided into two groups (case and control).The instrument was a researcher made questionnaire. After pretest, the educational program including lecture, group discussion and pamphlet was performed and after three weeks, Post test was given. Using Software SPSS-15, the data was analyzed by applying descriptive and inferential statistics.
Results: There is a significant difference (P<0.000) between the nurses' general knowledge (7.51± 3.17) and general attitude (8.35±5.22). The general knowledge and attitude of control groups are not different between first and second time of recording. General comparison of the effect of training indicates that the difference between intervention and control groups are statistically significant in the first and second time of recordings(p<0.000).
Conclusion: The education programs are effective on nurses′ knowledge and attitude toward Parkinson disorder and the roles such as medical care, Education and advocacy. Hence, the educational interventions related to nursing roles in caring Parkinson patients are necessary.
Hossein Rahmani Anaraki, Dr Gholam Reza Mahmoodi, Ghanbar Rouhi, Hamid Asayesh, Hossein Nasiri, Hossein Rakhshani,
Volume 9, Issue 2 (1-2013)
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Background and Objective: Chronic neurologic diseases due to associated disabilities and high cost of their medical services are considered as a crisis for patients and family. The stress caused by these problems can jeopardize the health of the caregivers. Thus, the aim of this study was to determine the general health status of neurologic patients’ caregivers and the related factors.
Material and Methods: In this cross-sectional study conducted in 2009, the caregivers of the patients with neurological disorders (n=200) were selected via convenience sampling. The data was gathered by a demographic checklist and general health questionnaire (GHQ-28) completed by caregivers and analyzed by descriptive statistic, Pearson correlation coefficient and chi square, using SPSS-16.
Results: The mean age is 31.78±9.94 and 59.5% of the subjects are males. The caregivers (72.5%) general health is disturbed (Score more than 23 based on GHQ-28 cut of point). General health of male and female caregivers is significantly different (P<0.05). Between the subscales of GHQ-28, female caregivers compared to males have higher depression score, which is significant (P<0.05). The caregivers’ general health are correlated with (P<0.05) the patient’s care dependency and the income of family. There is no significant relationship between general health and demographic variables such as marital status, history of the disease and educational level.
Conclusion: Based on the results, significant percent of caregivers of the patients with neurological disorders suffer from disrupted general health. Thus, the presence of supportive resources and effective coping skills can be effective in improving the health.
Dr Gholamreza Mahmoodi, Leila Rafiee Vardanjani, Neda Parvin, Einollah Mollaie, Naser Behnampour, Alireza Shariati, Dr Saied Mardani,
Volume 10, Issue 0 (Supplementary 2013)
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Background and Objective: Treatment adherence has an essential role in improving quality of life, survival, decreasing cost and side effects of treatment in patients underwent hemodialysis. This study aimed to determine the effect of individual multi-stage care on the treatment adherence in hemodialysis' patients, ShahrekordHajar hospital.
Material and Methods: This clinical trial was conducted on 66 Hemodialysis patients in 2013. They were randomly allocated into two equal groups of intervention and control. The instrument was the end-stage renal disease adherence questionnaire (ESRD-AQ). The patients in intervention group were participated in 8-session individual care program for one hour in addition to routine treatment. The data was analyzed using Mann–Whitney , Wilcoxon and Spearman (P<0.05). Level.
Results: The study indicated a significant difference between two groups in all dimensions of treatment adherence except dietary and food adherence. Adherence to treatment was better in intervention group (P<0.05). Furthermore, there was a significant correlation between adherence treatment and age of patients (P<0.05, r=0.245).
Conclusion: based on the findings, multi-stage care is effective on different aspects of treatment adherence.
Dr Gholam Reza Mahmoodi, Esmaeel Hosseinzadeh, Dr Mohammad Ali Vakili, Dr Kazem Kazemnejad, Dr Mohammad Reza Mohammadi, Dr Mohammad Hossein Taziki, Dr Rahim Kohansal, Zahra Hojbari,
Volume 10, Issue 1 (4-2013)
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Background and Objective: Coma due to brain injury is an important complication resulting in unconsciousness and reducing the capacity of responding to the environment. This study aimed at examining the effect of organized voice auditory stimulation, which was performed by a nurse, on the length of coma in the patients suffering from head injury.
Material and Methods: This clinical-trial study was applied on 40 patients in the critical care unit of Panje Azar Hospital. The patients were randomly recruited to one of the two groups (each group 20 patients). The intervention group was stimulated by the voice of a male nurse. Hearing stimulation was conducted in the morning and night shift about 15 minutes each time for 10 days. The patient consciousness was measured by GCS scale and analyzed by ANOVA and t-test (P<0.05), using SPSS Soft ware.
Results: The average age of intervention and control group was 28.20 ± 11.49 and 27.8 ± 13.22, respectively. Before stimulation in the first day, there is no significant difference between the GCS of intervention group (5.95 ±0.68) and that of control (5.95 ± 0.64). The results indicate that the intervention group has become consciousness from the 5th day (GCS of 8.25 ± 1.19) and control group (GCS of 7.80 ± 1.96) from the 10th day.
Conclusion: The study show that the auditory stimulation in the intervention group compared to control group gives rise to the improvement of the level of consciousness in comatose patients .
Dr Gholam Reza Mahmoodi Shan , Hosein Rahmani, Ali Akbar Abdollahi, Dr Mohammad Ali Vakili, Houralnesa Sheikh, Hosein Nasiri,
Volume 11, Issue 1 (5-2014)
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Background and Objective: There is an inevitable relationship between nurses' health and their lifestyle. Therefore, we intended to determin nurses’ lifestyle and its' relationship with some personal- professional characteristics.
Material and Methods: This descriptive-analytical investigation was conducted on 391 nurses selected via multi-stage random sampling in the Hospitals affiliated to Golestan University of medical sciences. The data was collected by a nurses lifestyle questionnaire having 6 subscales (internal consistency α=0.87 and stability r= 0.897). The data was analyzed by SPSS16 soft ware using independent t test, Kruskal-Wallis, Mann-Whitney U and chi-square tests( p<0.05).
Results: Of 391 , 20.2% were male and 79.2% female, and 85.4% have worked in rotation shift. The nurses (36.3 %) working experience was 6-10 years. The majority (78.1%) had optimal lifestyle. The highest score belonged to competency subscale (92.17%) and the lowest to personal life management subscale (64.82%). There was a significant relationship between a number of lifestyle subscales and some personal-professional characteristics such as nurse position,
Employing condition, work shift, overtime, night shift and holiday shifts (p≤ 0.05).
Conclusion: There is a relationship between nurses' lifestyle and some of the personal-professional status. Given that some professional conditions can decrease the personal life management and the role management of healthy lifestyle, we recommend that managers should be careful about working programs to provide healthy lifestyle.
Alireza Shariati , Hosein Rahmani Anaraki , Mohammad Parvareshmasoud, Moslem Hesam, Hamid Asayesh, Dr Seyed Mojtaba Mousavi, Dr Gholamreza Mahmoodi,
Volume 12, Issue 1 (4-2015)
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Background and Objective: Burnout has negative effects on nurses' health, and also onpatients’ satisfaction and safety. This study was conducted to determine the relationship between Burnout and nurses' job characteristics in teaching and therapeutic hospitals affiliated to Golestan university of medical sciences.
Material and Methods: In this descriptive-analytical study, 206 nurses who engaged in the teaching and therapeutic centers of Golestan university of medical sciences were selected via random sampling. The data was collected by demographic data sheet and Copenhagen burnout questionnaire and analyzed by descriptive statistical, logistic Regression.
Results: The mean age was 34.66±7.38 and 68% of the participants were female. Overall, 34% of the nurses had burnout. The prevalence of personal, work-related and client-related burnout was 33.5%, 41.3% and 22.3%, respectively. Age, job experience and type of employment were the risk factors of personal, work and client-related burnout. Being supervisor, working in the psychiatric ward and having private job, were the causes of increased personal burnout.
Conclusion: In line with the increase of age and job experience increasing, the officials should pay more attention to burnout, and in some ward of the hospitals and job positions, they need considering a unique career planning.
Ghanbar Roohi, Ghahraman Mahmoodi, Homeira Khoddam,
Volume 17, Issue 2 (4-2020)
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Background: The gap between knowledge and practice is a global issue that reduces service quality by creating barriers to knowledge implementation, and thus strategies should be developed to resolve it. The present study aimed to explain barriers and strategies for implementing knowledge implementation into Iranian health system management.
Methods: This qualitative study was conducted on 53 managers and health management graduates in 2018. Participants were recruited through purposive sampling in Medical Sciences Universities in Iran. Data were collected by semi-structured interviews based on the "Promoting Action on Research Implementation (PARiHS)" framework, focus group discussions and Delphi technique. The PARiHS framework has three main elements including; evidence, context and facilitation. The Lincoln and Guba criterion was used to assess the rigor of the study. Data were analyzed in MAXQDA software version 10 using directional content analysis.
Results: After data analysis 9 subcategories and 3 main categories including; evidence, context, and facilitation were emerged. In addition to three subcategories including, culture, leadership and evaluation, the socio-political subcategory was a context for knowledge implementation main barrier in the organizational context. The systematic structural planning for the combined use of four sources of knowledge is the most important strategy.
Conclusion: The lack of context readiness in using knowledge and lack of efficient system impeded knowledge implementation in the health system management. Therefore, managers and policy makers need to design a comprehensive system based on current knowledge and successful experiences.
Touran Bahrami Babaheidari, Siamak Amiri , Zohreh Mahmoodi , Marjan Haj Firooz Abadi , آقا Sara Rahimi, Hadi Soleymani Sartangi , Arman Latifi,
Volume 18, Issue 2 (7-2021)
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Background: Teacher evaluation is an essential and useful tool for decision making and determining appropriate teaching policies, especially in universities. The present study aimed to compare the teacher evaluation indices from the perspective of students and teachers at Alborz University of Medical Sciences, Iran.
Methods: The present descriptive-analytical study was conducted in 2013 on 34 faculty members and 418 students at Alborz University of Medical Sciences in Karaj, Iran. Data were collected using a researcher-made questionnaire on demographic characteristics, target group, appropriate time for teacher evaluation and opinions of faculty members and students about the twenty indices of teacher evaluation. The data were analyzed with SPSS 16 using descriptive statistics, mean test and Pearson correlation coefficient.
Results: The most effective target groups for teacher evaluation from the perspective of teachers were elite students (58.9%) and normal students (20.6%), while the most effective target groups for teacher evaluation from the perspective of students were normal students (42.1%) and teachers (14.1%).
Conclusion: Based on the results of the present study, we suggest using the criteria agreed by the teacher and students, revising the teacher evaluation forms, not limiting the evaluation process to the students' opinion, conducting self-evaluation by the teachers, conducting continuous evaluation at different times of the semester, a survey of teachers in preparing forms and summarizing and concluding the evaluations.
Shaghayegh Daie , Gholam Reza Mahmoodi-Shan , Zahra Mehrbakhsh,
Volume 19, Issue 1 (1-2022)
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Background: Loneliness is a serious issue among the elderly that considerably affects their health. Spiritual health might affect the level of loneliness in these individuals. Therefore, the present study was conducted to determine the relationship between spiritual health and loneliness.
Methods: This cross-sectional study was performed on 330 older adults who live in the western areas of the Golestan Province, Iran in 2019. The subjects were selected using stratified random sampling method with proportional to size. Data were collected by the short form of the Social and Emotional Loneliness Scale for Adults (SELSA-S) and the Spiritual Health Questionnaire (SHQ). Data analysis was performed in SPSS software (version 18) using Mann-Whitney U test and Spearman's rank correlation coefficient. Statistical significance level was set to 0.05.
Results: The mean of spiritual health and loneliness were 96.57±4.10 and 21.25±9.05, respectively. There was no significant correlation between spiritual health and loneliness (P=0.72), but there was a significant difference between urban and rural residents in this regard (P=0.037 and P=0.003). In addition, there was a significant relationship between spiritual health and loneliness in general (r=-0.139 and P=0.02). There was an inverse correlation between spiritual health and loneliness among urban residents (r=-0.27 and P=0.001) but not among rural residents (r=-0.06 and P=0.41).
Conclusion: Based on the findings, there is an inverse correlation between spiritual health and loneliness among the elderly. This could be a useful finding for planners and activists in the field of geriatric mental health in development of educational counseling and support programs.
Reza Ghaderi, Gholam Reza Mahmoodi-Shan, Mohammad Hosein Taziki, Naser Behnampour,
Volume 20, Issue 2 (10-2023)
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Background: Hearing loss is a common condition during the aging process. Improving hearing loss through hearing aids may impact satisfaction and the quality of life of elderly individuals. Therefore, this study was conducted to determine the association between Hearing Aid Use Satisfaction (HAUS) and the quality of life among the elderly with hearing loss in Gorgan, Iran.
Methods: This study is a cross-sectional investigation conducted in 2019 at the health insurance office in Gorgan, Iran. The study included elderly individuals aged over 60 who were fitted with hearing aids. Sixty subjects meeting the inclusion criteria were conveniently selected. The assessment tools included a demographics checklist, the Satisfaction with Amplification in Daily Life (SADL) scale, and the Short Form Health Survey (SF-12). Data analysis was performed using SPSS-18 and involved the Chi-squared test, independent t-test, Mann-Whitney U, and Spearman correlation coefficient. A significance level of P < 0.05 was considered.
Results: The participants' mean age was 76.85±8.16, falling within the age range of 75-89. The average satisfaction score for the use of the HAUS was 63.90±11.07. A significant statistical association was observed between HAUS and economic status (P=0.03), the type of hearing aid used (P=0.024), and the level of daily hearing aid usage (P=0.0001). With an increase in the number of hours of hearing aid use, the mean satisfaction score also showed an increase. The mean score for the quality of life among the elderly individuals was 32.77±2.02, and no correlation was observed between satisfaction with HA use and quality of life (r=0.068, P=0.511).
Conclusion: The findings suggest that hearing aid devices can enhance the satisfaction and quality of life of elderly individuals, thereby increasing their engagement in daily activities.
