نشریه توسعه پرستاری در سلامت
سال سیزدهم شماره 42 (پاییز 1401)

The diversity of human beings makes each person have their own style of love. Love and all its emotional dimensions are strongly related to personality traits and gender differences. The purpose of this research is to investigate the relationship between romantic behavior styles and the tendency to extramarital relationships and also to investigate the relationship between sexual attitudes and the tendency to extramarital relationships in married female students of the Islamic Azad University of Golestan province in 2020.

This is a descriptive-correlation study. In 2020, 335 married female student of Golestan Azad University were selected by convenience sampling. Three tools were used to collect information: romantic behavioral style, sexual attitude and extramarital affairs. Pearson correlation coefficient and multivariate regression were used to test the research hypotheses.

The analysis of the findings indicates a positive and significant relationship between "romantic behavioral styles" and "extramarital affairs" (r = 0.87, sig = 0.004) and its severity is about 75%. There is also a positive and significant relationship between "sexual attitude" and "extramarital affairs". (R = 0.83, sig = 0.016) and its intensity is about 68%. Data were analyzed in SPSS version 20. The significance level of the tests was considered 0.05.

The analysis of the findings indicates a positive and significant relationship between "romantic behavioral styles" and "sexual attitude" with "extramarital affairs" in married female students of Golestan Islamic Azad University.

Following the prevalence of covid-19, even after passing through its crisis, the level of stress in nurses who are directly dealing with infected patients increased, which affected their quality of life. This study was conducted with the aim of determining the correlation between occupational stress and the quality of life of nurses in the corona and general departments during the corona pandemic.

This is a descriptive correlational study that was conducted in 1401. The research sample consisted of 150 nurses (60 nurses from the covid19 department and 90 nurses from general departments) who entered the study from two hospitals. Sampling of nurses in corona wards was available and in general wards as a multi-stage cluster. Data collection tools were demographic questionnaires, quality of life SF36 and occupational stress OSIPOW. Descriptive statistics (mean, standard deviation) and analytical statistical tests (independent t, analysis of variance, chi-square and Pearson correlation) were used to analyze the data.

The average scores of occupational stress and quality of life of nurses in corona wards were 66.64 ± 11.73 and 43.05 ± 12.86, respectively, and for nurses in general wards, they were 56.41 ± 13.93 and 46.41 ± 10.70, respectively which had a statistically significant difference (P˂0.001). There was an inverse and significant correlation between job stress and quality of life in two groups (P˂0.001).

Considering the decline in the quality of life of nurses working in corona wards due to the increase in occupational stress, it is necessary for health managers to think of measures to manage the stress of these nurses so that its impact on their quality of life can be controlled to some extent.

Female-headed households are one of the socially vulnerable groups, since the number of them is on the rise due to the increase in divorce rates, social crimes, or addiction rate. Considering the vulnerability of this group, the purpose of this study is to explain the experiences of female-headed households covered by the Imam Khomeini Relief Committee.

The present study is a qualitative phenomenological study that was conducted in 2018. To collect data, semi-structured interviews with open-ended questions about life experience as a  female-headed household were used. The interviews were conducted in the Imam Khomeini Relief Committee center in Behshahr city. Sampling continued purposefully until data saturation was achieved with the participation of 10 participants. The recorded interview was written down line by line and analyzed according to Collaizi's descriptive phenomenological approach. Lincoln and Guba's criteria were used for the strength of the study.

From the data analysis, two main concepts including "change in normal life routine" and "problems of managing life" and four sub-concepts including "change in the role and feeling of the parent", "life progress"," loneliness"  and "worried about the future of children " were extracted.

Considering the mentioned results and especially the basic concerns of female-headed household, it is necessary to take steps toward redusing problems of this group of society through the psycho-social empowerment programs.

Muscle weakness is one of the side effects of inactivity that causes movement disorders and skeletal muscle abnormalities, especially in teenage girls. Therefore, resistance sports stimulate and grow muscles, maintain stability and balance in the body. This study was conducted with the aim of determining the effect of resistance exercise on the muscle strength of female students aged 13-15 years in Gorgan city.

This experimental study was conducted on 50 female students aged 13-15 years old in Gorgan city as a simple random allocation in two groups of test and control. In the test group, 8 training sessions were performed every week, 2 sessions of 50-60 minutes in the gym. No intervention was performed in the control group. The tools for measuring upper and lower body muscle strength were chest press weight and leg weights respectively. The data was entered into SPSS21 statistical software and analyzed by descriptive statistics and inferential statistics.

Covariance test showed a significant difference in comparing upper body muscle strength with eliminating the effect of pretest (P <0.01, Eta = 0.28). Covariance test showed a significant difference in comparing lower torso muscle strength by eliminating the effect of pretest (P <0.01, Eta = 0.42).

Resistance exercise plays an important role in strengthening the muscular strength of the upper and lower limbs of students. It is necessary for managers and health professionals to use these training methods to prevent girls' spine problems.

Work-family conflict is the result of imbalance and incompatibility that negatively affects the health and family relationships of nurses. It creates challenges for the individual and the organization .Therefore the present study was compiled with the aim of determining the relationship between work-family conflict and the quality of professional life of special care nurses.

This is a cross-sectional descriptive study that was conductedd in 2021-2022. The research community was included the nurses working in the ICU special care department of hospitals affiliated to Golestan University of Medical Sciences. Sampling was selected as a proportional and available allocation based on the inclusion criteria from among the research population. According to the sample size formul 268 nurses were included .The data was collected using a valid and reliable questionnaire of Stamm's quality of professional life, Carison's work-family conflict and demographic information registration form. Then the data was entered into SPSS software version 18. Then according to the non-normal distribution of the data, Spearman, Mann-Whitney and Kruskal-Wallis statistical tests were used. A significance level of 0.05 was considered.

The findings showed that the average age of the nurses was 31.81±7.01. The average of their work experience was 8.00±5.88. The average score of the total work-family conflict was 53.45±12.50 and it is at the average level. The average score of quality of professional life of nurses was 78.33 ± 10.57 and at a high level. Family-work conflict has a direct and significant statistical relationship with the quality of professional life of nurses working in special care (r=0.499 and p=0.000). Family-work conflict only had a statistically significant relationship with job position (p<0.05) and had no statistically significant relationship with other individual and professional variables. The quality of professional life has a statistically significant relationship only with the variables of gender, spouse's occupation, and history of underlying disease in the nurses' family (p<0.05).

Based on the findings of this study, which shows the relationship between the quality of professional life and work-family conflict in nurses working in the special care department; It can be concluded that with proper planning to increase the quality of work life of nurses, we can witness the reduction of their work-family conflict.

 During the last fifty years, the doctrine of pragmatism has emerged as the dominant philosophy in nursing, and many studies have dealt with the issue of pragmatism in nursing with a mostly positive view. In this article, the pragmatism philosophy in nursing knowledge, education, research and practice is examined with a critical stance.

 This study is a non-systematic narrative review, which is carried out separately and combined based on Mesh keywords including Nursing, Pragmatism, Knowledge, Practice, Education, Research Critique and through internet search in ISI databases, PubMed, Scopus and Google Scholar. The titles found were checked in terms of thematic relevance and a summary was taken from the selected documents.

Very few articles have criticized pragmatism in nursing. From the point of view of knowledge and nursing education, the most important challenge of pragmatism can be summed up in the fear of widening the gap between theory and practice. Also, one of the most important criticisms of pragmatism in nursing research and practice is the lack of paradigm stability and ignoring the unique care needs of each patient.

For a long time, pragmatism has been intertwined with the fabric of nursing, so that some interpret the philosophical foundations of nursing based on the teachings of this school. Perhaps it is better that this one-sided view is slightly moderated and should be paid more attention to the possibly unpleasant and negative effects of this school on nursing.