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Aim and Background: Coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery is the most common surgical procedure for patients suffering from coronary artery diseases. Many studies demonstrated CABG as a serious crisis for patients resulting in excessive stress and anxiety. This study was performed to assess the effects of reflexology on anxiety levels among CABG surgery candidates in Shahid Chamran Hospital, Isfahan, Iran. Methods and Materials: This clinical trial included 50 CABG candidates who were selected by simple random sampling. Patients were divided into the intervention and control groups based on the random numbers list. Reflexology was conducted for all patients in the intervention group for 30 minutes. Patients in the control group received usual interventions. Patients&#039; anxiety was measured pre- and post-reflexology and usual interventions. Descriptive and inferential statistics methods were applied in SPSS to analyze the data. Findings: Patients&#039; anxiety significantly decreased in the intervention group in comparison with the control group (P < 0.001). However, no significant changes were observed in the control group. Conclusions: The findings of the study showed reflexology to be a safe, effective, and cheap nursing intervention in reducing patients&#039; anxiety before CABG surgery.

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Aim and Background: Violence and agitation of the patient in the psychiatric ward must be considered in the context of the physical and drug inhibition of the patient. Despite the fact that some experts consider controlling the patients necessary for controlling the violence, many believe that inhibition of mentally-ill patients is a violation of human rights. They, in fact, are worried physical and psychological complications of the inhibition. Therefore, considering that the amount of inhibition of patients in psychiatric units is considered as a health index, and considering the negative effects of these interventions, the present study was conducted to investigate the status of physical and drug inhibition in acute psychiatric wards of Farabi Hospital of Isfahan, Iran. Methods and Materials: In this research, a researcher-made data collection form was used. This form included demographic characteristics and patient psychiatric diagnosis as well as information on the patients' process of inhibition. For each case of inhibition in the study period, a form was filled up and then analyzed statistically. Findings: During the one-month study period, 144 patients were under different types of inhibition, and 399 patients were physically and pharmacologically inhibited separately or simultaneously. Regarding physical inhibition, it was found that the majority of inhibition cases were performed in a general room of patients by a dual procedure, by two personnel and for a period of 1 to 8 hours. The most common causes of physical and drug inhibition were verbal abuse and insomnia, respectively. No drug complication was observed during the study period, and the pain was the most common complication of physical inhibition. Haloperidol was used most commonly for drug inhibition. Conclusions: Knowing how current inhibition is, changing the culture and moving away from overwhelming and intolerable inhibition methods are the ways to implement the modern physical and drug inhibitions. It, in turns, leads to obviate the medical constraints and enhance the motivation of patients to remain in the treatment procedure.