motivation

Considering the importance of Knowledge Sharing (KS) among nurses, this research aimed to investigate the factors influencing the motivation of nurses for sharing knowledge online.

This research was a questionnaire survey. The statistical population included all 1403 nurses working in the hospitals of Hamadan, Iran, and the sample size was estimated to be 302 participants. The collection tool was a questionnaire adopted from the research by Nguyen et al., and its reliability and validity were measured and confirmed. Structural equation modeling was used to test the research hypotheses using PLS 3.

Of the studied nurses, 78.15% use the Internet “moderate” to “very much.” Self‑efficacy (β = 0.24, t = 5.03, p < 0.001), reputation (β = 0.54, t = 10.96, p < 0.001), and reciprocity (β = 0/09, t = 2.081, p = 0.04) had a direct and positive impact on the online KS behavior of nurses. In addition, the top management support and individual innovation capability did not have a moderating role in the effect of reciprocity, reputation, and self‑efficacy (p > 0.05) on the online KS of nurses.

This study helps to understand that reciprocity, reputation, and self‑efficacy are the factors influencing the increase of online KS among nurses, and it is necessary to support the creation of online space for facilitating reciprocal relationships and interpersonal interactions of nurses to increase their online KS.

The well-known blended electronic learning system has been seen so far from the point of view of comparison with other e-learning, but not much research has been done about educational planning, in terms of students' interest in how to organize the combined face-to-face and non-face-to-face implementation of this type of educational method. The present study is an assessment with the aim of comparing the effect of the combined implementation sequence of two methods of blended web-based and workshop learning on the level of interest of students who are members of the research committee of Arak University of Medical Sciences to participate in the Vital Statistics course. This is a quasi-experimental study with an alternative treatment design. The statistical population, who were selected through census sampling due to limited numbers, included 38 students of the Faculty of Medicine and 15 students of the Faculty of Health. The data collection tool included two questionnaires of demographic characteristics and an interesting questionnaire. The validity of the interest questionnaire was assessed through content validity and factor analysis, and its reliability was by calculating Cronbach's alpha coefficient. The data were analyzed in SPSS-16 through independent t-tests, Keyser's index, Bartlett's test, and Cronbach's alpha coefficient. The results showed a statistical difference between interest in the first group (A: Workshop/Web-based) and the second group (B: Web-based/Workshop) in blended learning: In the medical faculty (P=0.043), in the health faculty (P=0.051) and the total of two faculties (P=0.004). Given the statistical difference observed in conditions (Comparison of groups in each faculty independently and comparison of groups in total of two faculties), we suggest holding Workshop (in-person) courses at first and online courses then.

The success of government organizations depends on the ability of employees and managers to provide optimal services. The present study was undertaken with the objective of formulating and understanding the servant leadership model on mental health and creating motivation for public service in the employees of Kerman municipality.

This study used the intentional snowball sample technique, wherein individuals were deliberately chosen by the researcher using the snowball method, which is a non-probability sampling method, was used to identify other experts. This sampling continued with maximum fluctuation until reaching theoretical adequacy, i.e. until adding data did not change the final pattern. The statistical population was the employees of Kerman Municipality with the number of 154 people. The tools used include standard questionnaires with reliability above 0.8 and Smart PLS3 software was used for data analysis.

A major factor in enhancing mental health and fostering public service motivation is servant leadership, which has a favorable impact on both things. This leadership style strengthens the motivation by improving and growing mutual trust between the leader and the employees and makes the employees able to provide better services while maintaining their mental health.

Considering the importance of the servant leadership style as one of the influencing factors on public service motivation, it is necessary to pay attention to this issue in motivating municipal employees in micro and macro management planning.

Caring a child with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDDs) presents numerous challenges that can impact the mothers’ caring motivation. This study aimed to explore the caring motivation barriers among mothers of children with IDDs. This qualitative content analysis study was conducted from July 2023 to March 2024. Twenty-six mothers of children with IDDs were purposefully selected to participate in face-to-face semi-structured interviews. Data collection continued until saturation was achieved. Data analysis was conducted using Mayring’s inductive approach within MAXQDA version 20. We utilized Lincoln and Guba’s criteria for ensuring rigor. The mean ages of the mothers and children were 40.34±7.44 years and 9.38±4.33 years, respectively. The analysis identified several main categories and 15 subcategories: (I) Mother’s insufficient readiness: low level of competency, decreased maternal strength with child’s advancing age, caregiving fatigue, complex health problems, and incompatibility with the child’s disability; (II) Perceived lack of support for the mother in caregiving: insufficient family support, inadequate social support, deficient healthcare provider support, lack of spiritual support, and insufficient financial support; and (III) Encountering caring complexity: disappointment with the child’s recovery, challenges in providing optimal rehabilitation, multiple physical problems in the child, unintentional behaviors in the child, and priority of personal goals over the care. The motivation of mothers to care for children with IDDs is influenced by a range of challenges. Future research should take these barriers into account to enhance maternal caregiving motivation. To modify the identified obstacles, a comprehensive plan of actions should be devised.

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has become a great global health problem. It has also affected mental healthcare providers, especially nurses and midwives. This study was conducted to evaluate the resilience of Iranian midwives and the effectiveness of daily motivational messages through the WhatsApp messenger in improving resilience. 

A psychoeducational intervention study with a control group was conducted on 362 midwives who were on duty in Iran during 2021. The samples were selected from the national midwifery Telegram group, and the data were collected through a Google Form. The tools used included the checklist of demographic characteristics and Davidson’s resilience questionnaire, whose validity and reliability have been determined in the Persian version. The Persian version of the Connor-Davidson resilience scale (CD-RISC) was administered to all participants at baseline and at the end of the study. The intervention group received daily motivational messages via WhatsApp for 43 days. These motivational messages, based on Quranic verses and hadiths, were sent daily. Data were analyzed using SPSS software, version 16, and included the paired t-test, independent t-test, chi-square test, and Pearson and Spearman correlation coefficient tests. 

There was no significant difference in terms of personal characteristics between the groups at baseline (P>0.05). After the intervention, the resilience score increased significantly in the intervention group (P=0.002).

Motivational massaging via social media could be effective in increasing resilience among healthcare workers in stressful conditions, including epidemics.

Self-handicapping behaviors, characterized by creating obstacles or excuses to avoid failure, can hinder academic success. Understanding how academic motivation mediates the relationship between self-handicapping behaviors and academic performance is crucial for supporting medical students.

This study aimed to investigate the relationships between academic self-regulation, goal orientation, passion, and self-handicapping behaviors among medical students, with academic motivation as a potential mediator.

The present study employed a descriptive, correlational approach to examine the relationships between variables within a structural equation modeling (SEM) framework. The population consisted of all undergraduate medical students with self-handicapping behaviors at Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences in 2022. The sample comprised 204 medical students selected using purposive sampling, who completed the Academic Passion Scale, Goal Orientation Scale, Academic Self-Regulation Scale, and Academic Motivation Scale. Structural equation modeling was used to analyze the model with AMOS 24.

The SEM analysis revealed that the proposed model had a good fit to the data (CFI = 0.96, RMSEA = 0.05). The results further demonstrated that goal orientation directly enhanced students' academic passion, while academic self-regulation did not have a direct impact. However, strong self-regulation indirectly increased passion by fostering academic motivation (P < 0.001). Similarly, goal orientation also worked indirectly through motivation to enhance academic passion (P < 0.05).

This study underscores the importance of goal setting and academic motivation in fostering academic passion among medical students with self-handicapping behaviors. While academic self-regulation strategies may not directly translate to academic passion, they can contribute indirectly by fostering academic motivation. Educators and practitioners can promote academic passion and address self-handicapping behaviors in medical students by encouraging goal orientation, academic motivation, self-regulation, and providing support for overcoming challenges.

Promoting adherence to treatment and self-efficacy in patients with coronary artery diseases helps to improve patient outcomes. The present study was conducted to explain the effectiveness of interventions based on information, motivation, and behavioral skills model on treatment adherence and self-efficacy in patients with coronary artery diseases.

This explanatory-sequential study was conducted on patients with coronary artery diseases in Shiraz, Iran. First, a quasi-experimental study was conducted on 112 patients who were randomly assigned to two intervention and control groups. The intervention consisted of ten motivational training sessions that were designed based on Information, Motivation, and Behavioral Skills (IMBS) model and continued with six months of telephone follow-up and counseling. Data were collected before, three months, and six months after the end of the intervention. Then, in the second phase, a qualitative study including 20 in-depth interviews with 18 participants from the intervention group was conducted. The data were analyzed by deductive and inductive qualitative content analysis. Finally, quantitative findings were explained with the help of qualitative findings.

The findings showed that the mean score of treatment adherence, medication adherence, and self-efficacy in the intervention group was significantly higher than the control group 3 and 6 months after the intervention (p<0.001). The results of the qualitative phase of the study also showed that the four main categories include receiving targeted information, encouragement to care, gained self-efficacy/doubt in care, and improvement/non-improvement of treatment adherence behaviors can explain quantitative phase results.

The results showed that receiving training with effective methods, strengthening the support system, self-confidence and positive attitudes about care, and promoting self-management and proper management of emotional distress contributed to the effectiveness of the interventions. However, receiving conflicting information, limited financial resources, and the inability to face challenges were among the obstacles to strengthening self-efficacy and adherence to treatment.

The situation of the relatives of surgery patients in waiting areas is an important issue, which has not been investigated in Guilan province, so this study was planned.

This cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted in Guilan academic hospitals (Razi-Poorsina-Heshmat-Alzahra–Amir al Momenin) from Feb 2022 to Dec 2022. Relatives of patients who underwent elective surgeries enrolled the survey. A questionnaire containing two parts of demographic data and 12 items assessing relative’s conditions in waiting area was filled out via a direct interview. 

318 relatives enrolled the survey. 93.2% of patients’ relatives were first-degree relatives.76.7% had information about the surgery. 41.5% were informed of their patient’s status in operating room. Fear of not emergence from anesthesia 109(34.3%) and death 105(33.0%) were the main causes of anxiety which was reported as 8.23±28.2 from 10 and only 6(1.9%) had financial concern. 86.8% of the responders declared that being informed from their patient’s condition in operating room, was the most effective approach to reduce their anxiety. A positive and highly significant association was observed between the level of education and receiving explanation from surgeon, anesthesiologist and being informed from patients’ status in waiting area (p=0.001).

It was found that relatives of surgery patients suffered from high degrees of anxiety mainly due to fear of death and not emergence from anesthesia. They stated that being informed from their patient’s conditions was the most powerful factor in reducing their anxiety.

Improvement of students’ academic performance is the main goal of educational centers, because the academic performance of individuals is the basis of their success at every juncture. This study aimed to investigate the relationship between study habits and academic achievement motivation in Qazvin dental students in 2022-2023.

This study was a descriptive-analytical study that was performed on all dental students of Qazvin University of Medical Sciences. Data collection tool was three questionnaires, the first part contained demographic and background information including age, sex, marital status, semester and second part contained the PSSHI study habits questionnaire which was developed by Palesani and Sharma and included 45 questions. The third part contains Hermens questionnaire to measure the motivation of academic achievement. The validity of the questionnaires was obtained using experts’ opinions and its reliability was obtained using Cronbach’s alpha test. The collected data were entered into SPSS software version 26, then using descriptive statistics (mean, standard deviation, etc.) and statistical analysis including independent t-test and ANOVA were analyzed.

The results of this study showed that the educational motivation of most students of Qazvin dental school was high which had no significant relationship with sex, age, marital status and term (p>0.05). There was a significant relationship between academic motivation and study habits of students (p˂0.05).

The results of this study showed that the study habits of Qazvin dental students are moderately desirable, so it seems that students are not familiar enough with learning facilities and study skills. Therefore to enhance the study skills of students, teaching Workshops will be included in the curriculum.

The present study aimed to explore the effect of eight weeks of judo training on the life expectancy, motivation, and mental health of blind and visually impaired veterans of the eight-year Holy Defense War in Tehran.

This experimental research was done on 100 blind and visually impaired non-athlete males in Tehran Province, Iran. Forty individuals were selected and randomly assigned to the experimental (20 participants) and control (20 participants) groups. The Miller Hope Scale (MHS), the Goldberg General Health Questionnaire (GHQ), and Willis’s Sport Attitude Inspection Questionnaire (SAI) were used as research tools. A paired t-test was employed to compare the mean scores within each group (pre-test and post-test), and analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) was used to compare the differences between the two separate groups using SPSS 26.

There was a significant difference in life expectancy and mental health, excluding the two components of social functioning symptoms and depression symptoms, as well as in the competitive motivation of blind and visually impaired veterans in Tehran Province before and after eight weeks.

Eight weeks of judo training positively affects life expectancy, mental health, and competitive motivation of blind and visually impaired veterans.

Treatment of psychiatric patients is a challenging issue that requires special attention due to their unique nature and conditions. Identifying the factors that influence treatment acceptance among these patients can aid in disease management and health promotion. The environment in which individuals reside can significantly impact their behaviors.

The present study aimed to determine the correlation between ward atmosphere and the motivation, perception, and attitude of patients towards continuing the treatment process in psychiatric wards of certain university hospitals in Shiraz and Bushehr in 2019.

The present cross-sectional study included 299 patients admitted to the psychiatric wards of hospitals in Bushehr and Shiraz, Iran. A convenience sampling method was employed. Data collection tools included a demographic characteristics form, a short-form psychiatric ward questionnaire, and patient attitude, motivation, and treatment perception questionnaires. Data were analyzed using SPSS 19 with Pearson or Spearman correlation tests, independent t -test, one-way analysis of variance, and linear regression. The significance level was set at less than 0.05 in all cases.

The mean score of ward atmosphere was lower than average (18.37 ± 2.99) from the patients' point of view. Among the subscales of ward atmosphere, the "support" subscale correlated with patients' attitudes towards continuing the treatment process (P = 0.042). Patients exhibited a more positive attitude towards treatment at higher levels of support. Two subscales, "support" (P = 0.048) and "programme clarity" (P < 0.001), correlated with patients' perceptions of the treatment continuation. In other words, patients' perception of the treatment process was higher at elevated levels of these two subscales. None of the ward atmosphere subscales correlated with the patient's motivation to continue the treatment process from the patient's point of view.

Given the correlation between certain subscales of ward atmosphere and patients' attitudes and perceptions about continuing the treatment process, it is recommended to design programs to optimize the ward atmosphere. This could improve patients' attitudes and perceptions regarding continuing their treatment. Additionally, it is suggested to study other factors affecting treatment in psychiatric patients.