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BACKGROUND: Empowering healthcare providers is a crucial strategy for enhancing the quality of primary healthcare. This study aimed to investigate the effect of online multimedia psychoeducational interventions on the psychological empowerment of healthcare providers. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This quasi-experimental stud …
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Abstract Background: Self-efficacy of care is based on health-promoting behaviors that are formed through dealing with disease conditions and the ability to treatment adherence and management of complications. This study was conducted to design and validate an assessment tool for adolescents with mental disorders. Mate …
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BACKGROUND: The promotion of health in adolescents with mental disorders depends on their levels of self-care empowerment. Self-efficacy is a significant prerequisite for successful self-management and behavior change in adolescents with mental disorders. The present study was conducted to explain the concept of care s …
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BACKGROUND AND AIM: The internship is a program for transition of nursing students to the clinical setting. This study was conducted to describe and interpret the experiences of nursing students from the internship program. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This was an interpretative phenomenological study following Van Menen's a …
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BACKGROUND: Assessment of circulating and scrub skills is an important issue in operating room (OR) programs. However, there is a lack of well-designed tools that are specifically developed for this purpose. Hence, this study aimed to develop and determine the validity and reliability of a checklist to measure the circ …
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BACKGROUND: Assessment of the patient safety competency is necessary for the growth of nursing and safe care profession as well as evaluation of the nurses' educational needs. The present study was conducted to determine psychometric properties of the Persian version of the patient safety competency self-evaluation (PS …
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BACKGROUND: Diagnosing cancer, as a life-threatening event, in children and adolescents stops the normal course of life for all family members. Spirituality, which plays an essential role in coping with illness and death, can increase resistance against psychological crises induced by cancer diagnosis and treatment. Th …