فهرست مطالب

Health, Spirituality and Medical Ethics
Volume:3 Issue: 1, Mar 2016

  • تاریخ انتشار: 1395/01/16
  • تعداد عناوین: 5
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  • Amin Asghari, Atefe Dehnoaliyayan, Masoomeh Saadati *, Sadaf Ahmadpour, Alireza Ghodsi Pages 2-9
    Background And Objectives
    Interactions between physicians and nurses are regarded as an indicator to present the desirable care for the patient. The present study was conducted with aim of clarifying the status of communication and collaboration of nurses and physicians as well as the correlation between these two factors from the nurse's viewpoint.
    Methods
    This research was a descriptive - analytical study of the cross-sectional type in which all the nurses employed in the wards of 22 Bahman and Hakim hospitals of Neyshabur city participated as a census. The sample size was 162 persons according to Morgan table. To collect data a three-part questionnaire was used which included demographic information as well as the communication and collaboration of physicians and nurses. The collected data were analyzed by SPSS ver. 16 using descriptive and inferential statistical tests.
    Results
    34.6% and 65.4% of nurses were employed in Hospitals of Hakim and 22 Bahman, respectively. 37%, 24.7% and 38.3% of them were working in intensive care units, the emergency ward and other wards, respectively. The results of the study showed that the amount of communication and collaboration of nurses with physicians in all scopes of communication was at a moderate level and a positive correlation was found between the scopes of communication and collaboration of physicians and nurses. A significant relationship also was found between communication, collaboration, and employee's demographic information.
    Conclusion
    The results showed that the effective communication between physicians and nurses is an important element in order to have collaboration between them. Therefore, better communication could improve collaboration of them
    Keywords: Collaboration, Communication, Nurses, Physicians
  • Masoomeh Saadati *, Aghdas Saadati, Amin Asghari, Maryam Golkhatmi Bidgoli, Alireza Ghodsi, Azam Golkhatmi Bidgoli Pages 10-17
    Background And Objectives
    One of the latent and consequential factors of facilitation of organizational justice is staff members’ level of organizational commitment. The present study aimed at surveying the relationships between various dimensions of organizational justice with organizational commitment and job satisfaction of staff of a Medical University.
    Methods
    263 staff members were eligible and agreed to participate in the survey. Data related to demographic characteristics, perceived organizational justice (Rego and Kanha scale), and organizational commitment (Meyer and Allen questionnaire) and job satisfaction (Saneie scale) were collected. Validity and reliability of research methodology were measured through utilization of Content Validity Index and internal consistency procedure, respectively.
    Results
    Organizational justice, organization commitment, and job satisfaction were all positively correlated. There were positive and significant correlations between job satisfaction with organizational justice and organizational commitment with organizational justice. Furthermore, Multiple linear regression analysis showed that all three parts of organizational justice can explain only 26% of the changes in organizational satisfaction and only organizational procedural justice can explain only 3.3% of the changes in organizational Commitment.
    Conclusion
    Considering the research findings, it is proposed that in order to facilitate the level of organizational commitment, occupational circumstances such as educational facilities should be utilized. With such utilizations, functional and mental efficiency of staff will be improved and the sense of high level job efficiency is generated against any possible regret for choosing the particular organization.
    Keywords: Job Satisfaction, Organizations, Organizational Commitment, Social Justice
  • Mahsa Rashidi *, Fatemeh Sharif Mousavi, Korosh Esmaeili Pages 18-24
    Background And Objectives
    Forgiveness and empathy are factors which are influential in improving the relationships between people, themselves can be affected by various factors in turn. The purpose of this research was to investigate the relationship between the styles of attachment to God and forgiveness and empathy among female students in the city of Qom.
    Methods
    250 students were selected from the city of Qom by cluster sampling. Three questionnaires were used: styles of attachment to God by Kirkpatrick and Rowatt, emotional empathy by Mehrabian and Epstein and forgiveness inventory by Enzeit. Pearson correlation and Regression analysis were used for data analysis.
    Results
    The style of secure attachment to God had a significantly positive relationship with forgiveness and empathy. Furthermore, the style of avoidant attachment to God and the style of bilateral attachment to God had a significantly negative relationship with forgiveness. In addition, the standard coefficients of all three predictive variables (Secure attachment, bilateral and avoidant to God) were all significant at p=0.05. Assessment and recognition of the style of attachment to God, the students and its relation with forgiveness and empathy can have valuable implications in providing the mental health of the students.
    Conclusion
    The findings of this research show a connection between the style of attachment to God and forgiveness and empathy, indicate the clarification of attachment to God in student's forgiveness and empathy. Based on the findings, it can be suggested that the theory of attachment to God can be used in psychotherapy.
    Keywords: Attachment to God, Empathy, Forgiveness, Spirituality
  • Dr Seyyed Hassan Adeli, Dr Mohammad Aghaali *, Dr Mir Rasol Hashemi Pages 25-29
    Background And Objectives
    Most physicians believe that telling lies and withholding the truth is not permissible. However, it appears that holding the phenomenon telling the truth to be absolute or unconditional is not acceptable either. This study was conducted to examine Qom City physicians’ attitudes with regard to revealing the influential news to patients.
    Methods
    This was a descriptive-analytical investigation whose statistical population encompassed 150 physicians working in Qom City, including physicians engaged in hospitals, clinics, and medical offices. A tailor-made questionnaire was utilized to examine physicians’ attitudes to telling the truth to patients. SPSS Ver.16 was used to analyze data obtained in the study, employing the statistical tests of Independent T-Test, ANOVA, and chi-square.
    Results
    41 (27.3%) male and 109 (72.7%) female physicians took part in this study. The mean work experience of the participants was 16.21±9.19. Overall, the attitudes of 36 physicians (24%) were low, 85 (56.7%) average, and 29 (19.3%) were weak. Pearson correlation coefficient indicated a positively significant relationship between work experience and attitude.
    Conclusion
    The results demonstrated that most physicians believed that telling lies is not absolutely prohibited for health professionals, who, in some certain cases, are permitted to do it. Moreover, it is concluded that patients’ level of knowledge, awareness, age, and other items should be taken into vigilant account upon disclosure of bad news to them, who are entitled to know about their health status.
    Keywords: Bad News, Medical Ethics, Patients, Truth Disclosure, Trust Telling
  • Zahra Taheri, Kharameh *, Mohammad Abdi, Reza Omidi Koopaei, Mostafa Alizadeh, Vahid Vahidabi, Hesam Mirhoseini Pages 30-35
    Background And Objectives
    The aim of the present study was to determine the relationship between dimensions of religious and spiritual wellbeing, stress, anxiety, and depression in students of Qom University of Medical Sciences and as well as to access the predictability of stress, anxiety, and depression from the levels of religious-spiritual dimension in students.
    Methods
    In this descriptive and analytical study, 138 students in Qom University of Medical Sciences were selected via random sampling method. Theycompleted the MI RSWB- 48, Depression, anxiety, and stress scale (DASS-21). Data were analyzed by SPSS Ver.16 ,utilizing descriptive statistics and the statistical tests of Independent t-test, ANOVA, Pearson correlation coefficient and regression analysis.
    Results
    Religious-spiritual wellbeing was correlated with depression, anxiety and stress (p
    Conclusion
    The findings indicated that immanent hope and general religiosity were, respectively, the most important religious-spiritual components which may affect psychological distress in students.
    Keywords: Anxiety, Depression, Religious, Spiritual Wellbeing, Stress, University Students