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Introduction: As a result of their stressful job, nurses are supposed to be vulnerable to aggressive behaviors. This study was done to assess the rate of aggression among nurses.  Method and   Materials: This was a descriptive-analytic study on 100 nurses working in pediatric wards of all general hospitals in Isfahan in 2006. Aggression Questionnaire (AGQ) as well as a Demographic questionnaire was administered. Data was analyzed using Fisher Exact Test running SPSS software.  Findings: A total of 23% of nurses had scores more than 45. Considering the sex, 10% of men, and 24.2% of women had scores more than 45. There was no significant relationship between aggression and sex. Considering the age group, 34.8% of the nurses in the age group of 22 to 29 years old, 16.6% of those in the age group of 30 to 39 and 7% of those in the age group over 40 had scores more than 45. There was a significant relationship between aggression and age. A rate of 14.9% of the single nurses versus 35.6% of the married ones had scores more than 45. A significant relationship was found between aggression and marital status. There was also a significant positive relationship between aggression and the years of service. No significant relationship was found between aggression and the level of education, shift of work, different wards of hospital, different hospitals and the salary pay.  Discussion: Based on the results of this study, aggression was higher in the lower age group and those with lower work experience. Aggression was higher in the married group. These results should be considered in planning appropriate mental health intervention. 

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Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE AR-SA MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Aim and Background: Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is one of the anxiety disorders that traumatic events posed as a causal factor for it. Because emergency nurses and fire fighter workers were exposed to traumatic events more than other people. Then the present research was conducted in other to determine prevalence rate of posttraumatic stress disorder in emergency hospital nurses and fire department workers in the uremia city. Method and Materials: This research was conducted by cross–sectional method with 100 emergency nurses and 100 fire fighter workers who were selected randomly. Each of samples was tested individually by Mississippi posttraumatic stress disorder scale at the occupational place. Collected data were analyzed by SPSS 15 with descriptive statistic and multiple regression test. Findings: The result showed that 14 percent of hospital emergency nurses and 8 percent of fire department workers diagnosed with posttraumatic stress disorder. From demographic variables, age negatively predicted disorder prevalence, namely disorder prevalence decreased with increased in age. Also marriage situation related to disorder prevalence. In this research, there were not significantly relationship between Gender and educational level and posttraumatic stress disorder prevalence. Conclusions: Results revealed that emergency nurses and fire department workers are being at risk of posttraumatic stress disorder. This problem suggests the necessity of coping skills training for this people.

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Aim and Background: This aim of this study was to determine the relationship between psychological health and emotional intelligence with job burnout of nurses of state hospitals in Tabriz. Methods and Materials: In this correlative descriptive study, 300 nurses of Tabriz state hospitals who had more than 5 years work experience were chosen by cluster random sampling method. They accomplished General Health Questionnaire, Bradbury-Graves Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire and Maslach Job Burnout Questionnaire. Data were analyzed by SPSS software and Pearson correlation and multiple regression statistical tests. Findings: Mental health and emotional intelligence had significant role in predicting job burnout changes of nurses, these variables predicted 12 % variance of job burnout. There was significant correlation between mental health and emotional intelligence (r = -0.196, P < 0.01). Conclusions: Considering the results of our research, increased attention to nurses&#039; burnout through emotional intelligence education and focus on their mental health is recommended.

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Aim and Background: Educational programs design to providing learners&rsquo; educational needs. Regarding to rapid development of science boundaries, nurses need to new skills. So identifying educational needs of nursing staff is important and effective step for promoting their strengths. The aim of present study has been to determine educational needs of nursing staff in psychiatric wards. &nbsp; Methods and Materials: This study was cross-sectional survey type. Samples were 76 nurses of psychiatric wards of Noor, Farabi and Al-Zahra hospitals in Isfahan in 2010. Sampling method was sensus. The tool for collecting data was a researcher made questionnaire. Validity and reliability of tool was confirmed by content validity and using coefficient Cronbach&rsquo;s alpha (89%). Data was analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics and SPSS software. &nbsp; Findings: The findings showed the most of educational needs of nurses were been in three domains of &ldquo;Identifying disorders&rdquo;, Nursing care&rdquo;, &ldquo;Medicational and nonmedicational cares&rdquo; respectively. The most important of educational needs of nursing staff working in psychiatric wards in domain of &ldquo;Identifying disorders&rdquo; including children and adolescences psychiatric disorders and psychiatric emergencies. The educational needs in domain of &ldquo;Nursing cares&rdquo; include managing aggressive patients and appropriate activities for suicide prevention; and finally in &ldquo;Medicational and nonmedicational cares&rdquo; domain include recognizing side effects of medications and managing these side effects were been important. Other findings indicated that there was no significant difference between age, background job and the location of nurses work with educational needs. &nbsp; Conclusion: Regarding to needs of nursing staff in psychiatric wards in three domains including &ldquo;Identifying disorders&rdquo;, Nursing cares&rdquo; and &ldquo;Medicational and nonmedicational cares&rdquo;; The researchers suggested in order to improving of knowledge and skill of nursing staff and promotion of the nursing services for patients, more pay attention to these needs and designing and administering short term and long term educational courses for them. &nbsp;

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Abstract Aim and Background: Continuous education of health provider staffs is over mentioned. This study designed to evaluate the efficacy of a need assessment based educational workshop for a group of nurses in psychiatric wards of educational hospitals in Isfahan regarding to psychiatric disorders. Methods and Materials: This is an interventiona l study and our samples included all nurses were working in psychiatric wards of Noor & Farabi hospitals in Isfahan. The educational intervention performed in a workshop format including lecture presenting, group work and discussion in both hospitals. Knowledge & attitudes of samples evaluated before, immediate and one month after the workshop using a researcher designed questionnaire. Collected data analysed with Bonferroni, Repeated measure & ANOVA tests using SPSS-19. Findings: The mean score of the knowledge&#039;s of the samples raised from the base of 63.3&plusmn; 11.6 to 82.7&plusmn;12.9 & 73.3&plusmn; 13.3 immediate and one month after the workshop respectively (p &le;0.001). The mean score of attitude raised meaningfully from the 60.1&plusmn;8.1 of the base to 63.1&plusmn;10.7 after intervention and 64.9&plusmn;11.6 one month later. Conclusions: Educational workshop regarding the psychiatric disorders can cause positive effect on knowledge and attitude of nursing staffs to these disorders and may promote the practice with the psychiatric patients.

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Aim and Background: Observing error and misconduct in the work place and deciding whether to report it or not is stressful and this stress can have physical and emotional effects. The aim of this study was to investigate the emotional and physical effects of whistleblowing among nurses in private and public hospitals of Isfahan, Iran, in 2011. Methods and Materials: This was a descriptive and analytical study. The study participants consisted of 245 nurses of private and public hospitals of Isfahan. The subjects were selected using cluster sampling method and evaluated using the Whistleblowing Checklist and the two checklists of Physical and Emotional Effects of Whistleblowing of McDonald and Ahern. Findings: 62% of nurses were whistleblowers and 38% were non-whistleblowers. In terms of physical effects, whistleblowers suffered from more problems and only the rate of digestive problems was higher among non-whistleblowers. In terms of emotional effects, feelings of fear and anger were more common in whistleblowers and feelings of unworthiness and guilt in non-whistleblowers. Conclusions: The results indicated that Whistleblowers, generally, suffer from more physical and emotional problems, but non-whistleblowers also have specific problems (digestive problems and feelings of unworthiness and guilt) which show the necessity of paying more attention to this group.

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Aim and Background: Appropriate professional collaboration between physicians and nurses can be effective on the quality of health care given to patients. This study was performed to compare the effects of Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation-II (APACHE-II) and new checklist of health status assessment on the quality of physician-nurse relationship. Methods and Materials: In this cross-sectional descriptive-analytical study, 100 nurses from intensive care unit (ICU) of Amin Hospital, Isfahan, Iran, participated. Jefferson Scale of Attitudes toward Physician-Nurse Collaboration was used for collecting data. Finally, data were analyzed using paired t-test and Wilcoxon test through SPSS software. P < 0.05 was considered statistically significant. Findings:  The mean score of physicians-nurses relationship in new checklist of health status assessment group was significantly higher than that of APACHE-II group (P < 0.001). But overall, the attitudes toward physician-nurse collaboration were positive in both scoring systems. Conclusions: According to the results, attitudes of the nurses toward physician-nurse relationship in new checklist of health status assessment group was significantly more positive than APACHE-II group, so using new checklist of health status assessment instead of APACHE-II system is recommended in the ICUs of the country's hospitals.

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Aim and Background: Nurses are influenced by various stressors that spiritual factors can affect their quality of working life. This study aimed to evaluate the efficacy of spiritual self-care training on nurses' self-compassion and moral courage.
Methods and Materials: The current research was an applied study by purpose and a quasi-experimental study (using pretest-posttest and control group) by the method. The population of the study included all nurses working in Pasteurno Hospital, Tehran, in the fall of 2019. Among the nurses working in Pasteurno Hospital, 30 people who had the inclusion criteria for the study were selected by convenience sampling method and randomly assigned to experimental and control groups (15 individuals for each group). Individuals in both experimental and control groups initially completed the Neff's Self-Compassion Scale (SCS) and Sekerka's Moral Courage Scale as a pre-test. Then, the experimental group underwent spiritual self-care training, but the control group received no intervention. At the end of the period, the subjects of both experimental and control groups completed the same questionnaires as post-test. The data were analyzed using analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) by SPSS software version 23.
Findings: The findings indicated that the level of self-compassion and moral courage of the experimental group, compared with the control group, significantly increased (p<0.05).
Conclusions: According to the findings achieved, it can be stated spiritual self-care training causes an increase in the amount of nurses' self-compassion and moral courage by controlling negative thoughts and emotions and strengthening a sense of commitment to the job, religious values, and altruism. In addition to nurses, this is also beneficial for the health of patients.

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Aim and Background: The outbreak of Covid-19 virus and the occurrence of multiple peaks in the country over time has caused nurses to suffer psychological and emotional damage. According to this the present study was conducted to investigate the efficacy of positive psychotherapy on the resilience of female nurses with anxiety symptoms.
Methods and Materials: The present study was quasi-experimental with pretest, posttest and control group design and two-month follow-up stage. The statistical population of the present study included the female nurses with anxiety symptoms in the city of Isfahan in the winter quarter of 2020. 40 female nurses with anxiety symptoms were selected through purposive sampling method and were randomly accommodated into experimental and control groups (each group of 20 nurse). The experimental group received positive psychotherapy online in 8 sessions of 75 minutes per month. After the intervention, 4 nurse in the experimental group and 3 nurse in the control group had a fall. The applied questionnaires in this study included anxiety questionnaire (Beck et.al, 1998), and resilience scale (Conner, Davidson, 2003). The data from the study were analyzed through mixed ANOVA and dependent t test using SPSS statistical software version 23.
Findings: The results showed that the Positive psychotherapy has significant effect on the anxiety and resilience of female nurses with anxiety symptoms (p<0.001) and succeeded in the decrease anxiety and increase psychological empowerment and resilience in these nurses.
Conclusions: According to the findings of the present study it can be concluded that positive psychotherapy can be used as an efficient treatment to decrease anxiety and increase resilience of female nurses with anxiety symptoms through employing techniques such as a positive outlook on life and teaching optimism and hope for the future.

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Aim and Background: Appreciation of the positive personality traits that have been considered by many psychologists in recent years. Improving gratitude can improve the quality of life and mental health in people. The aim of this study was to investigate the effectiveness group emotion regulation training on promoting the mental health of physicians and nurses of public hospitals in Isfahan.
Methods and Materials: The design of this quasi-experimental study is pre-test, post-test and follow-up with experimental and control groups. The statistical population of this study included all physicians and nurses of public hospitals in Isfahan in the first three months (April, May and June) of 1400. The research sample was selected using available sampling method of 40 physicians and nurses in Isfahan. The experimental group received an emotion regulation training package for 8 sessions; the control group did not receive any training. Follow-up was done after a month. Covariance test was used to analyze the results. Data were analyzed using SPSS software.
Findings: Analysis of the findings shows that the mean scores of mental health of individuals according to the group (control and experiment) after adjusting the pre-test, there is a significant difference (p <0.05) and the experimental group after receiving adjustment training Excitement indicates higher mental health.
Conclusions: Therefore, it can be said that emotion regulation training increases the overall positive orientation, positive cognitive processes, and positive emotional function of individuals and therefore improves the mental health of physicians and nurses during the outbreak of Covid 19.

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Aim and Background: emotion management is one of the positive personality traits that has been the focus of many psychologists in recent years. Improving emotion management can improve people's quality of life and job performance. The purpose of this research is to investigate the effectiveness of group training of emotion regulation on the job performance of doctors and nurses in general hospitals in Isfahan city during the Corona crisis.
Methods and Materials: The design of this research is a semi-experimental type of pre-test, post-test and follow-up with experimental and control groups. The statistical population of this research included all the doctors and nurses of the general hospitals of Isfahan city in the first three months (April, May and June) of 2021. 40 doctors and nurses in Isfahan city were selected as the research sample using available sampling method. The experimental group received the emotion regulation training package for 8 sessions; the control group did not receive any training. The follow-up was done after three months. Repeated measurement test was used to analyze the results. The data was analyzed using SPSS software
Findings: The analysis of the obtained findings shows that the average scores of the job performance of the people according to the group (control and experiment) after adjusting the pre-test has a significant difference (p<0.05) and the experimental group after receiving adjustment training. Excitement shows higher job performance.
Conclusions: Therefore, it can be said that emotion regulation training increases general positive orientation, positive cognitive processes, and positive emotional functioning of people, and therefore improves the job performance of doctors and nurses during the outbreak of Corona.