Causes of Job Stress in Nurses: A Cross-Sectional Study.
Causes of job stress in nurses: A cross-sectional study.
Iran J Nurs Midwifery Res. 2012 May; 17(4): 301-5
Najimi A, Goudarzi AM, Sharifirad G
Nursing is naturally a stressful job. Stress in nurses can cause depression, isolation from patients, absence and decrease in their qualification. This study aimed to determine the causes of job stress in nurses of Kashan, Iran.In this cross-sectional study, 189 nurses from Kashan hospitals of different wards were studied. The information collection tool was Occupational Stress Inventory-Revised™ (OSI-R™).The most important job stress aspects in female nurses were range of roles (48.4%), role duality (40.9%) and job environment (39.6%). In men, range of roles (57.5%), job environment (50%) and responsibility (45%) were the most significant aspects. In addition, lack of balance between skill and education and job environment requirements in both genders was the least important aspect of job stress.The results showed that the level of stress in most of the nurses was in medium level. Job factors were more involved in job stress than demographic and other factors. HubMed – depression
The association of depression and preterm labor.
Iran J Nurs Midwifery Res. 2012 May; 17(4): 275-8
Ehsanpour S, Shabangiz A, Bahadoran P, Kheirabadi GR
There are situations in every woman’s life that impressively affect her whole life. Pregnancy is one of those situations. Pregnancy period is usually accompanied with positive emotions for the women and their families. Sometimes depression during pregnancy disturbs daily activities, acceptance of new roles, pregnant woman?s life responsibilities and pregnancy consequences. The goal of this study was to investigate the association between depression during pregnancy and preterm labor consequences and some personal characteristics.This was a cohort study in which the data were collected through cross-sectional method. Primarily, 10 health care centers in Isfahan were randomly selected. The subjects included 378 pregnant women selected based on the number of the pregnant women under the coverage of each health center. The data collection tool was a questionnaire which was filled in two phases. The first phase was during pregnancy and included both personal characteristics and Beck Depression Inventory II and the second phase was after delivery and included the subjects’ pregnancy age at the time of delivery. Content validity and Cranach’s alpha were employed for validity and reliability of the questionnaires, respectively.Prevalence of depression in the population studied was 26.7%. The results showed that there were significant association between depression during pregnancy and preterm labor (p < 0.001), the education of pregnant women (p < 0.001) and their spouses' education (p = 0.001), the pregnant women's occupation (p = 0.04) and their spouses' occupation (p = 0.009). There was no significant association between depression during pregnancy and the women' age of pregnancy.The findings of the study showed a relationship between depression during pregnancy and preterm labor. Therefore, mental health counselors and programmers are suggested to have some educational programs about psychiatric health for midwives and the personnel who provide health care services for pregnant women. HubMed – depression
The association of contraceptive methods and depression.
Iran J Nurs Midwifery Res. 2012 Mar; 17(3): 234-8
Ehsanpour S, Aghaii A, Kheirabadi GR
None of the contraceptive methods are fully side-effect free. One of the side effects that commonly causes discontinuation is mood changes and depression. The present study aimed to compare the depression between contraceptive methods including low-dose estrogen (LD) combined pills, condom and intrauterine devices (IUD).In a cross-sectional study, 216 women were selected through systematic random sampling from 10 health care center sin Isfahan in 2011. Beck Depression Inventory II was used and individual productivity characteristics were asked. Validity and reliability of Beck depression inventory have been repeatedly confirmed in Iran. Content validity the productivity characteristics questionnaire was confirmed and its reliability was measured through Cronbach’s alpha correlation coefficient (calculated as 0.71). ANOVA, covariance analysis and logistic regression were used to analyze the data.Depression was observed in 47.8% of participants; however, there was no difference between mean score of depression in the users of three contraceptive methods.The findings of this study showed that depression is not correlated with family planning type and fear of depression should not be an obstacle to choose between these methods. Depression is a multifactor issue. This study showed that type of family planning method in itself cannot be the cause of depression and family planners and consultants should consider this. HubMed – depression
Affective responses of the parents after diagnosis of type 1 diabetes in children.
Iran J Nurs Midwifery Res. 2012 Feb; 17(2 Suppl 1): S96-S100
Talakoub S, Nasiri M
These days, diabetes is deemed as one of the most important health and social-economic problems of the world. Since parents play a major role in treatment of diabetes, the most important part of managing diabetes is in the hands of the parents of children affected by diabetes. This special responsibility will increase the stress and family challenges and impacts parents’ emotional responses. The affective reactions or responses of the parents can also be conveyed to the child himself and reduce self-care, increase glucose levels, increase the possibility of complications and reduce the quality of life. Thus, it is highly important to recognize the affective reactions of parents during various stages of the disease for the purpose of intervention.All parents of children diagnosed with insulin-dependent diabetes who referred to Sedigheh-ye-Tahereh Endocrinology and Metabolism Research Center, Isfahan, Iran, were selected and the Symptom Checklist-90 (SCL-90) was filled in five stages (immediately, one month, three months, six months and twelve months after diagnosis). Convenient sampling was used to select 45 consecutive subjects out of whom 10 dropped out during the study.The major problems of the study subjects at the beginning of diagnosis were depression, anxiety and physical problems, respectively. Three, six and twelve months later, they were depression, obsession and physical problems. Over time, the mean score of parents’ affective reactions declined which indicated the acceptance of the disease by parents over time.In view of the fact that both mother and father of children with diabetes suffer from affective problems and since fathers refer to diabetes centers less than mothers, some decisions should be made to mentally support both fathers and mothers. HubMed – depression