مجله آموزش پرستاری
سال ششم شماره 2 (پیاپی 22، خرداد و تیر 1396)

Unhealthy lifestyle causes complications and requires more attention to education and health promotion programs among various social groups. Therefore, this study was conducted to determine the effectiveness of peer education on health- promoting lifestyle in health volunteers.
In this quasi-experimental study, firstly through convenience sampling method,59 cases from four centers subset health center of Mashhad were selected based on the results of the pilot study. Then through random assignment, two centers were devoted to experimental group (29 person) and two other centers to control group (30 person). In the experimental group, after selection peer educators, educational intervention was performed in 6 sessions. 45-60 minutes in the form of small groups and cooperative learning. Common application of centers was performed in the control group. In both groups, lifestyle norm questionnaire was filled out before and four weeks after the intervention. Data Analysis was done using SPSS V.16 as well as t-test, Mann-Whitney U, Wilcoxon, and Chi-Square Test.
After intervention, mean scores of health promoting lifestyle showed a significant increase in the experimental group in all aspects compared with before intervention (P0.05). Difference of mean Scores in all aspects of lifestyle in the experimental group were statistically significant compared with the control group (P Peer education is effective in improving the lifestyle of health volunteers. Therefore, the use of peer education is recommended in health volunteers training.

Clinical education is a dynamic process and a core in nursing professional education. The clinical education curriculum has been planned to develop nursing education level, but students are confronting challenges in clinical education. The purpose of this study was to compare the clinical education from the perspective of nursing students.
In this descriptive cross sectional study, using census method, 150 nursing students were selected from nursing and midwifery faculties. Data were collected with a 35 items researcher made questionnaire, in Likert scale, with five domains in clinical education. Descriptive and analytic statistic analyses were conducted using SPSS (ver., 16)
The students showed better scores in objectives and educational planning (19.92 ± 5.90), and moderate in instruction domain (14.73 ± 4.96). The Confrontation with student (51.2±33.7), clinical environment (79.2±48.9) and supervision/ evaluation was assigned weak scores. Also, the most scores were related to nursing faculty at Shahed University and the least was to Shahid beheshti nursing faculty. There were no statistical differences of perspective of clinical education in different domains by gender. Male and female students had different perspective on clinical education.
Given the essential role of clinical education, it is recommended to improve the skills of nursing students. Therefore, more attention is needed in school administrators and preparation.

Education can play a major role in improving the quality of nurse's performance. The present study aimed to determine the effect of hand dressing education through group and video training on nurses working in different wards.
In this quasi-experimental study with two groups, 90 nurses working in different wards of Hazrat Fatima in Tehran were selected by census method and randomly divided into two groups: video and group training. Data collecting instrument was a questionnaire to assess the knowledge and performance checklist to evaluate nurses and researchers’ performance before and after the training. Data were analyzed using SPSS software ver19 , Paired-Samples T test and independent t-tests.
The level of awareness in the training group before and after training were 17.20 ± 1.75 and 18.16 ± 1.14 and in the video training group it was 17.07±1.48 and 17.93 ± 1.45. The performance of training group before and after training was 77.89± 9.36 and 81.69±8.41 and in the video training group it was 74.47±10.79 and 80.33±9.36. The results of both groups after the training was better. (P Although both groups were effective in raising nurses’ awareness and performance; however, according to numerous advantages of video training including affordability and ability to watch videos at any time and place, etc., using this method in the training programs is recommended.

Emotional intelligence (EI) has an important potential role in nursing education and is necessary for personal mental health and professional practice. The aim of this study was to assess and compare the emotional intelligence of nursing students and its relation with some demographic characterizes in educational levels of the undergraduate, MSc, PhD in Isfahan University of Medical Sciences.
This was a descriptive cross-sectional study. The study population included 169 nursing students that were selected using proportionate stratification. Data were collected by a questionnaire that was consisted of two parts; demographic characteristics and” BarOn EQ-i” questionnaire which was included 90 questions and 15 scales. Data analysis were conducted uaing description statistics tests (mean, frequency, standard deviation) and inferential statistical tests (spearman correlation, Pearson correlation test, T test, ANOVA test and LSD) with SPSS 16.
The student's mean score of emotional intelligence was 336.53 ±33.08. There was significant correlation between emotional intelligence score in married status) P=0.02, t= 2.21 (and educational term (p=0.05, r=0.15) and There was significant difference between the score of emotional intelligence in educational levels of the undergraduate, MSc and PhD in nursing students (P Considering emotional intelligence is important for high quality care; hence, necessity of fostering this scope. Therefore, appropriate education corresponding to the grade should be effective in promoting care system in improving services provided.

Infertile couples are faced with multiple psychological problems. This semi-experimental study aimed to evaluate the effect of Fordyce happiness model on hardiness and marital adjustment in infertile couples.
The population were consisted of infertile couples in Quchan and Faruj cities in 2015 that participated voluntarily 20 couples (n = 40) and were randomly assigned to experimental group (10 couples) and control group (10 couples). Couples in experimental group received a psycho-educational program on happiness in 14 sessions (90 minutes). Scale survey tools included Hardiness and Dyadic Adjustment Scale.
Repeated measures analysis of variance and interactive effect of the test and separately on each of the dependent variables (hardiness and marital adjustment) was significant (P0.05), but the difference between average pre-test and follow-up in all two dependent variables were statistically significant (P Fordyce happiness model training had stable effect on hardiness and marital adjustment. Therefore, we offer implementation of this method in improving the lives of infertile couples in nursing infertility centers.

Empathy, Spiritual Intelligence and social responsibility are Factors affecting on expanding the quality of nursing services and can have a basic role on the patient rights. This study aimed to investigate the relationship of empathy and Spiritual Intelligence with nurses Attitude to rights of patients with mediation of Social Responsibility.
This is a descriptive-correlational study carried out with 300 nurses in west Azerbaijan in 2016. Data gathering instruments were: Jefreson empathy scale, Salkovskis responsibility scale, King Spiritual Intelligence scale and Hoshmand and et al rights questionnaire. Descriptive (frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation) and inferential statistics (Pearson correlation coefficient and Path analysis) were done with spss ans amos-22 was analyzed.
The results showed the direct effect of empathy (p=0.04, r=0.05). Spiritual Intelligence (p=0.04, r=-0.19), responsibility (p=0.001, r=0.62) on nurse’s attitude with the rights of patients were significant. The indirect effect of empathy (0, 05) and Spiritual Intelligence (0, 03) with mediating the forming the model of responsibility were significant. In conclusion, %40 of the variance in nurse’s attitude with the rights of patients was determined using empathy, spiritual intelligence and responsibility.
It seems that empathy, spiritual intelligence and responsibility increases the nurses’ attitude in improving the rights of patients. In order to consider the rights of patients, it is recommended that necessary actions be performed in training empathy, spiritual intelligence and social responsibility among nurses.

Emotional intelligence can be developed in economic potential in the organization according to modern and tools for guiding people inside and outside organizations. On the other hand, job motivation, the willingness of employees to overcome barriers to employment and working conditions adapt explains, in this study, the effect of emotional intelligence on job motivation was discussed.
The study population were all nurses working in public hospitals is the city of Kermanshah in 2015 using random sampling method and Cochran formula. The sample size was 178 people, of which 142 people completed the questionnaires and returned it. The main tool for obtaining data for the study of emotional intelligence questionnaire was Hackman and Oldham Bar _on and job motivation questionnaire. For the relationship between motivation and emotional intelligence-based statistical SPSS version 20 was used using Pearson's correlation coefficient.
Between emotional intelligence, and job motivation, in governmental hospitals in Kermanshah the results were positive and significant. Pearson's correlation coefficient for the correlation between moral and emotional intelligence showed job motivation and self-awareness (r = 0.542, p = 0.021), self-respect (r = 0.782 , p = 0.033), social skills (r = 0.757 , p = 0.037), empathy (r = 0.615 , p = 0.015), and flexibility (r = 0,631 , p = 0.010), which represents a strong link between positive and significant ethics of emotional intelligence with job motivation among nurses in governmental hospitals of Kermanshah, Iran.
job motivation plays a big role in improving the quality of nursing services. The results showed a significant relationship between emotional intelligence and job motivation. After strengthening emotional intelligence training among nursing staff, job motivation could improve among nurses. This leads to increased satisfaction of nurses and public hospitals of Kermanshah will improve in the performance zone.

Improvement of the quality of life is one of the main objectives of treatment in patients with heart failure. Educational intervention for family members of patients with health problems, leads to reduced distress and discomfort. This study which is aimed at determining the effect of integrated group education program on quality of life of family members of patients with heart failure, was conducted in Zanjan.
This study is a randomized controlled trial. The study population included family members of patients with heart failure admitted to the CCU and Heart Wards of Ayatollah Mousavi Hospital. 92 family members of patients were eligible to participate in the study. Family members of inpatients were selected by convenience sampling and randomly divided into control and intervention groups. Before randomization, participants completed initial questionnaire and then were divided in two groups of 46. The participants were asked to fill out questionnaires three times during one year. Hospital anxiety and depression questionnaire was used to measure anxiety and depression. Nottingham Health Profile questionnaire was used to measure quality of life. To determine the reliability and validity of questionnaire were used test retest and content validity respectively. Data was analyzed by SPSS 22. The K-2 test and the gamma correlation coefficient were used to compare the two groups according to the demographic characteristics of the patient's family members and patients, Variance analysis with repeated measures was used to compare anxiety, depression and quality of life in two treatment groups.
The results showed that the anxiety and significantly decreased during the three measurement periods (P To promote disease- related knowledge, a combination of training methods effect on rates of anxiety, depression and quality of life of patient's family members could be used. Our results suggest that intervention aimed at increasing social support may be beneficial for patient's family members. It is recommended that a separate study of the role of nurses in health promotion in relation to other chronic diseases should be studied.