Showing 12 results for Skill
Mis Katayoon Jalaliaria, Mr Hamid Asayesh, Mis Maliheh Sedehi, Mis Maryam Ghanbari,
Volume 9, Issue 1 (8-2012)
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Background and Objective : Adolescence is a critical period of life accompanied by a high prevalence of anxiety disorders, which can be reduced by acquiring some special skills. The aim of present study was to investigate the effect of anxiety management skills on Students’ Life Satisfaction in one of the Girls’ High schools in Gorgan, 2010.
Material and Methods : We conducted this pre-experimental study on 60 girl’s students , from a high school in Gorgan, selected via convenience sampling.We asked the subjects to fill out the demographic data sheet and Dinner life satisfaction questionnaire, and divided them randomly in two groups of intervention and control. For intervention group, a class of anxiety management was performed.To compare the means, we used independent t- test and paired t- test.
Results: The results show that there is significant difference between the life satisfaction of before and that of after education(P=0.028), but it is not true for control group.
Conclusion: Learning anxiety management skills can increase the rate of life satisfaction in Adolescents therefore, it can help them to overcome many social problems.
Keywords: Ttraining, Skill, Anxiety, Satisfaction of life, Students
Mr Mohammad Taghi Badeleh, Mr Moslem Hesam, Mr Abdolrahman Charkazi, Mr Seyyed Ziae Asghari, Mr Hasan Khorsha,
Volume 9, Issue 1 (8-2012)
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Background and Objective : Academic achievement is associated with the knowledge and application of effective study skills. The aim of the current study was to investigate the study skills of nursing and midwifery students of Golestan University of Medical Sciences.
Material and Methods : In this descriptive study, 211 students were recruited through census in 2008-2009 academic years. The data was collected by using Cangas Study Skills Inventory (CSSI).Reading ability, note-taking, memory enhancement, readiness to exam , concentration and time managements were the subscales surveyed. the data derived from the instrument was analyzed by statistical tests, using SPSS software.
Results: The mean standard deviation is 2.47±0.40 of four. The reported study skills are weak (43.6%), moderate (53.6%) and sufficient (2.8%).The study skills of female students is significantly higher than males (p=0.017) and freshmen’s Study skills is better than that others (p<0.0001).
Conclusion: The study skills of the majority of students are not sufficient. It seems that studying in university could not improve study skills and it is a necessity for the students to pass study skills workshop or even a course as a part of university curriculum.
Keywords: Study skills, Students, Medical sciences
Ahmad Nooreddini, Soheila Sedaghat, Dr Akram Sanagu, Hojjatollah Hoshyari, Bahman Cheraghian,
Volume 12, Issue 1 (4-2015)
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Background and Objective: Direct observation of medical learner working on real patients is of paramount importance to assess practical competency. The direct observation clinical skills (DOPS) needs to be performed by direct observation of the learner and simultaneous evaluation by a questionnaire. This study aimed to assess the effect of clinical skills evaluation applied by DOPS on the clinical performance nursing students.
Material and Methods: This quasi-experimental study was conducted on 35 nursing students allocated randomly to case and control groups, 2013. The data was collected by a research-made questionnaire and analyzed by Wilcoxon, Mann Whitney, Spearman Coefficient (r = 0.05) and Kappa Coefficient (K= 0.6), using SPSS software.
Results: The participants of case group were evaluated three times by DOPS and the ones in control were assessed once by routine method. The DOPS average point of case group stage 2 and 3 was significantly higher than that of controls (0.0001). But in control group, no change in mean point and no promotion in clinical performance were observed.
Conclusion: The accurate implementation of DOPS can be a useful approach to connect knowledge to development of professional and skillful behavior. Thus, we recommend that the faculty members of nursing schools to focus on this way of evaluation and other modern approaches to develop continuing education.
Fahimeh Kashani, Maryam Moghimian, Shahin Salarvand , Parisa Kashani,
Volume 12, Issue 2 (12-2015)
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Background and Objective: Effective communication is an essential characteristic of nursing care carried out as a necessity in education to empower patients. Therefore, this study aimed to determine Nurses' knowledge, attitude and practice about effective communication skills in Patient education.
Material and Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted on 275 nurses selected via stratified random sampling in teaching and therapeutic centers of Esfahan University of medical sciences, 2013.We collected the data by a research-made questionnaire related to knowledge and attitude, and a checklist to observe nurses' communication skills. To analyze the data , Central indices were calculated.
Results: of 275 nurses , 86.7 % made a friendly atmosphere with their patients and 72.2% showed positive feedback, while their knowledge about communication components were 79.6 % . They (67.3%) were active listeners and they (96.7%) had close communication during patient education.
Conclusion: given that nurses' communication skills are moderate, we recommend holding communication-skills workshops especially in patient education.
Elham Khoori , Fatemeh Zarekia , Shahram Mohammadkhani , Azizeh Ghaseminejad, Navisa Sadat Seyedghasemi ,
Volume 15, Issue 1 (2-2018)
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Background: The success of therapeutic results of assisted reproductive techniques is related to several factors, including the extent of female anxiety. The aim of this study was to determine the effect of training problem solving skills on the anxiety of female candidates for intrauterine insemination in Moheb Yas Hospital in Tehran (2015).
Methods: This experimental study was a two-group design (intervention and control) of pre-test and post-test type. The data collection tool was a sociodemographic form and Beck Anxiety Inventory. The samples comprised of 49 female candidates for assisted reproductive technique of intrauterine insemination, with the least Anxiety Score of eight from Beck Anxiety Inventory. Based on this inventory, participants were homogenized in terms of different levels of anxiety and were randomly assigned into intervention and control groups. For intervention group, the problem-solving skills were trained for three sessions of 2-2.5 hours. Then, Beck's Anxiety Inventory was filled in both intervention and control groups, one day and 9 weeks after the end of the intervention. The data was analyzed in SPSS version 16, using the descriptive and analytical statistics (Mann-Whitney, Wilcoxon, and Paired t-test).
Results: There was no significant difference in the anxiety score among the two intervention and control groups before intervention, whereas the anxiety score indicated a significant difference between the two groups (P=0.001) one day and 9 weeks after the end of the intervention. Training problem-solving skills significantly reduced the anxiety of the intervention group one day after the intervention, and the decrease also remained stable at 9 weeks after the end of the intervention (p = 0.001).
Conclusion: By training problem-solving skills, we can reduce the anxiety among female candidates for intrauterine insemination.
Tayebe Ziaei , Marzieh Gorzin , Masumeh Rezai , Nasser Behnampour ,
Volume 15, Issue 2 (7-2018)
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Introduction: Sexual satisfaction is an important indicator of sexual health and is strongly associated with satisfaction of interpersonal relationships. Self-awareness refers to pay attention to the thoughts, feelings, and it is the introduction of interpersonal relationships. Due to this relationship,a study was conducted to determine the impact of individual counseling based on self-awareness skills on sexual satisfaction in women of reproductive age of Gorgan, Iran.
Methods: An interventional study was conducted as a field trial on 76 women of reproductive age referred to Gorgan health centers in the fall of 1395. The samples were availablility selected and randomly divided into intervention and control groups. In the first step, the Hudson Sexual Satisfaction Persian Questionnaire were completed by all women. Then,the women in the intervention group were consulted with six sessions of individual counseling based on self-awareness skills intervention. One month after counseling, both post-tests were performed in both groups. Variables with T-student and Mann - Whitney using SPSS 16 software were analyzed.
Results: There was no statistically significant difference between mean score of sexual satisfaction before intervention between two controls (103.21 ± 10.15) and intervention groups (102.36 ± 10.00). But, there was a statistically significant difference between mean score of sexual satisfaction after intervention; 103.39 ± 10.04 for the control group and 112.1 ± 7.97 for the intervention group (P-Value<0.0001).
Conclusion: The results show that to increase sexual satisfaction promoting the awareness about sexual issues is not the only solution, but also promoting the self-awareness skills via recognizing their positive and negative characteristics is necessary. Hence, healthcare providers can use individual counseling based on self-awareness skills to increase sexual satisfaction.
Asieh Sadat Baniaghil, Shohreh Ghasemi, Masumeh Rezaei Aval , Nasser Behnampour,
Volume 17, Issue 0 (4-2020)
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Background: Patient interview is the most common professional activity of clinicians. Effective interview can strengthen clinician-patient relationship and improve treatment outcomes. In some studies, such as saboori et al. (87-86) and Managheb et al. (2010), the Calgary-Cambridge model-based learning skill is effective in interviewing skills, while in other studies including Rezvani (2014), communication skills based on the Calgary-Cambridge model did not mention effective interviewing skills. This study aimed to evaluate the effects of communication skills training through the Calgary-Cambridge model on interviewing skills among midwifery students.
Methods: This two-group pretest-posttest randomized controlled field trial was conducted in 2017–2018. The number of participants was thirty including the students in the sixth and eighth semester of bachelor of midwifery conveniently recruited from Golestan University of Medical Sciences, Gorgan, Iran. Initially, their interviewing skill was assessed using Evan and colleague’s History-taking Rating Scale. Then, they were randomly allocated to a control (15) and to an intervention group (15) through stratified randomization based on their interviewing skill scores and their academic semester. Participants in the control group did not receive any communication skills training, while those in the intervention group received communication skills training based on Calgary-Cambridge model in four four-hour sessions held twice weekly (16 hours). Interviewing skills in the control and in the intervention groups was re-assessed respectively four weeks after pretest and four weeks after the intervention. Exclusion criteria were unilateral withdrawal from the study, two or more absences from communication skills training sessions, and failure to attend the communication skills assessment session. Therefore, one student in the control group and one student in the experimental group were excluded. Data were analyzed using SPSS software (v. 18.0).
Results: The pretest mean score of interviewing skills in the intervention and the control groups was 33.71±7. 342 and 33.64±6.021 respectively, with no significant between-group difference (P = 0.978). At posttest, the mean score of interviewing skills in the intervention and the control groups was 54.50±8.169 and 33.93±5.399 respectively and the between-group difference was statistically significant (P < 0.001).
Conclusions: Communication skills training through Calgary-Cambridge model is effective in significant improving midwifery students’ interviewing skills. The Calgary-Cambridge model could be used as part of the midwifery educational curriculum to improve the skills of interviewing midwifery students.
Roghayeh Haji Gholikhani, Fatemeh Seifi, Mohammad Sadegh Montazeri, Naser Behnampour,
Volume 17, Issue 0 (4-2020)
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Background: Drug addiction is one of the most significant psychosocial disorders. According to studies, considering the increasing prevalence of this problem, Education, with Creating Supportive environment to reduce Sustained injuries the family members with an Addict Is felt More than ever. Thus a study was conducted to determine the effectiveness of communication skills training on marital satisfaction in Wives of Men are in Drugs Withdrawal Period in Gorgan.
Methods: This randomized controlled field trial was performed on 40 patients. The Code of Ethics is IR.GOUMS.REC.1397.068. Samples were included in the study with a set of criteria (leaving husbands addicted men, ages 45-18, can read and write, at least one year of living together, single-wives ...). The intervention group was trained in communication skills at the nearest holistic health center of their residence, for 8 sessions (5 to 10 people). The control group received no intervention. Immediately after the end of the eighth session and one month thereafter, both groups completed the Persian Enrich Marital Satisfaction Questionnaire. The data were analyzed using SPSS 16 software and parametric t-test for two independent groups and paired t-test for comparison before and after the intervention and Mann-Whitney test.
Results: The results of this study showed that the mean and standard deviation of quantitative data (age, income, and duration of marriage…) were not significantly different between intervention and control groups (P> 0.05). Also, the results of the comparison of all qualitative data (education, ethnicity, occupation, the type of drug used before Withdrawal Period…) were homogeneous in the intervention and control groups (P> 0.05). The mean and standard deviation of marital satisfaction were significantly different in the intervention group, before (100/11 ± 25/24), immediately after (125/75 ± 12/35) and one month thereafter (114/18 ± 5/63) counseling (P <0/0007). However, the difference of mean and standard deviation of marital satisfaction were not significant in the control group, before (98/65 ± 14/41), immediately after (95/35 ±15/51) and one month thereafter (93/15 ± 16/35) counseling (P> 0.05).
Conclusions: According to the results of the study, Communication Skills Training can improved the Marital Satisfaction in Wives of Men are in Drugs Withdrawal Period in most subscales.Therefore, and further studies are suggested to increase the skills of families of addicts.who are leaving.
Asieh.sadat Baniaghil, Shohreh Ghasemi, Masumeh Rezaei Aval, Nasser Behnampour,
Volume 17, Issue 2 (4-2020)
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Background: Communication skills are of top priority for health care provider's professional traits and communication is an essential part of the midwifery care. Many studies of midwifery and midwifery students' communication skills are poor and average. This study aimed to evaluate the effects of communication skills training through the Calgary Cambridge model on communication skill among midwifery students.
Methods: This randomized controlled field trial was conducted in 2018. Thirty midwifery students were recruited using conventional sampling method from Golestan University of Medical Sciences, Gorgan, Iran. Then subjects was assigned into two experimental and control groups by stratified random allocation method. Initially, their communication skill was assessed using Queendom scale. Participants in the experimental group received communication skills training based on Calgary-Cambridge model in four four-hour sessions held twice weekly. The control group did not receive any intervention. Communication skill in both control and experimental groups was re-assessed respectively four weeks after pretest. Data were analyzed using the Mann-Whitney U test, the independent-sample t test and the paired-sample test in SPSS-16 software.
Results: The pretest mean scores of communication skill in the experimental and the control groups were respectively 122.43±9.40 and 122.29±7.81, with no significant between-group difference. At post-test, the mean score of communication skill in the experimental and the control groups was respectively 122±8.06 and 120±8.08 and the between-group difference was not significant (P=0.51).
Conclusion: Communication skills training through Calgary-Cambridge model is not effective in significantly improving midwifery students’ communication skill. Therefore, to improve communication skills, this model is insufficient and may need to be modified, or it is necessary to add more intervention to this model.
Tayebe Ziaei , Somayeh Gholipour, Ahmad Danesh,
Volume 18, Issue 1 (5-2021)
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Background: Women experience psychological problems during pregnancy affecting their quality of life. Since weakness in life skills, including communication skills (CS), is a factor of reducing the quality of life, we conducted a study to determine the effect of group counseling based on communication skills on the quality of life in pregnant women in Gorgan.
Methods: The parallel randomized field study trial carried out in 2016 on 72 pregnant women who referred to the health centers in Gorgan, Iran. The pregnant women at the gestational age of 14-18 weeks were recruited in convenience sampling method, and then randomly assigned in to the intervention and control groups using the block randomization method. The data collection tool included the quality of life questionnaire (SF-36) that was completed by both groups before the intervention. The samples of the intervention group received 6 sessions of group counseling based on communication skills for a one-hour session per week. A week after the sessions, the questionnaires were completed again by both groups. We analyzed the data in SPSS-16 using the independent t-test, Mann-Whitney test, Wilcoxon test, Paired t-test, and Chi-square test.
Results: The mean of women's age was 28.4±4.3 years in the intervention group, and was 26.8±4.5 years in the control group, and the mean age of their husbands were 33.14±5.3 and 31.22± 4.8 in the intervention and control groups, respectively. There was statistically significant difference between the intervention (60±15.2) and control (49±13.4) groups after the intervention in total quality of life (P=0.002). The results indicated that the mean scores of quality of life of women in the intervention group versus the control group after the intervention had statistically significant differences in all areas except for the "physical function" (65.3±17.4 vs. 61.5±20.1, P=0.4) and "role limitation due to physical problems" (50±36.8 vs. 45.1±27.3, P=0.56).
Conclusion: The health centers need to be taught about the communication skills in line with physical training during pregnancy by midwives and midwifery counselors.
Azam Hokmabadi, Elham Khoori , Mahin Tatari, Sandy K. Wurtele ,
Volume 19, Issue 2 (9-2022)
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Background: Parents play important roles in protecting their children from child sexual abuse (CSA). In Iran, mothers have been shown to effectively improve and maintain female children’s protective behaviors and knowledge regarding CSA. This study aimed to determine the effect of personal safety education for mothers in Gorgan (northeastern Iran) on their sons’ knowledge and skills for the prevention of CSA.
Methods: This clinical trial was conducted in 2019 on 46 preschool-aged boys and their mothers. Eligible subjects were recruited by systematic random sampling from two health centers in Gorgan. Boys were pretested using Persian versions of the Personal Safety Questionnaire and ’What If’ Situations Test and then randomly assigned to either an education group (mother-taught program) or a control group. Mothers assigned to the education group participated in a 2-hour training session and were given the Body Safety Training workbook to teach their sons during the following week. Two days after the training by their mothers, boys in both groups were post tested and also followed up one month later. Data were analyzed in SPSS software (version 16) by using repeated-measures ANOVA, general estimation equation, Mann-Whitney U test, and Fisher’s exact test.
Results: Children taught by their mothers demonstrated significant increases in the mean scores of knowledge (P=0.001), total safety skills (P<0.001), and appropriate-touch recognition (P=0.005). These increases were maintained at the one-month follow-up. Children in both groups recognized almost all inappropriate-touch requests correctly at all three time periods (P=0.99).
Conclusion: Educated mothers effectively taught their young sons skills and knowledge to protect from CSA, and these gains were maintained for one month. Although all participants were able to recognize inappropriate-touch requests, boys did not recognize that requests to touch the genitals are appropriate for health or hygiene purposes until they were educated by their mothers. In Iran, parents teach children that any touching or looking at their private parts by anyone is forbidden.
Andri Nugraha, Iin Patimah, Engkus Kusnadi, Wikky Fawwaz Al Maki ,
Volume 21, Issue 3 (10-2024)
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Background: The learning styles and personality traits of millennial nursing students are different from those of previous generations, presenting a challenge in teaching as these differences affect academic motivation, knowledge, and clinical skills. Alternative models of teaching that are more interactive, technology-based, practical, and observational are needed. This study aimed to examine the effectiveness of virtual reality head-mounted display (VRHMD) on academic motivation and skills of millennial nursing students in teaching prevention and control of catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs).
Methods: This quasi-experimental study employed a nonequivalent control group pretest-posttest design and involved 64 nursing students who participated in the research. They were randomly divided into two groups using purposive sampling. The intervention group used VRHMD method, while the control group followed the routine method (the practice laboratory using mannequins). In this study, the inclusion criteria consisted of bachelor's and associate degree nursing students in their third semester who completed the course of fundamental nursing practicum and were able to operate VR devices. They performed a 20-minute exercise three times. After the complete practice, data were collected using Academic Motivation Scale (AMS)-Short Indonesian Language Version questionnaire to measure Academic Motivation and the assessment of clinical skills to prevent CAUTIs questionnaire to measure clinical skills. The assessment was done immediately before the intervention and immediately after the intervention. Data were analyzed using independent T-test and Chi-square test.
Results: The mean levels of academic motivation in the experimental group during the pre-test and post-test were 73.53 ± 3.100 and 84.09 ± 3.286. Moreover, VRHMD led to higher academic motivation in students compared to those who utilized traditional methods. This difference was statistically significant (p=0.004).
Conclusion: According to the findings of the present study, VRHMD is effective in improving the skills and academic motivation levels of millennial nursing students. This method is recommended as a teaching method for millennial nursing students.
