Somaye Rostami, Ravanbakhsh Esmaeali, Hedayat Jafari, Jamshid Yazdani Charati, Seyed Afshin Shorofi,
Volume 10, Issue 0 (3-2017)
Abstract
Futile medical care is considered as the care or treatment that does not benefit the patient. Thus, perception of the clinical team regarding futile care is of great importance and it has an important role in the quality of nursing care and health of clinical team. This study aimed to determine the relationship between perception of nurses regarding futile medical care and their caring behaviors toward patients in the final stages of life admitted to intensive care units. This correlational, analytical study was performed on 181 nursing staff of the intensive care units (ICUs) of health centers affiliated to Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Mazandaran, Iran. The data collection tool included a two-part questionnaire containing demographic characteristics form, perception of futile care questionnaire, and caring behaviors inventory. To analyze the data, statistical tests and central indices of tendency and dispersion were used. Pearson’s correlation coefficient, partial correlation, t-test, and ANOVA tests were performed to assess the relationship between the variables. Findings illustrated that the majority of nurses (65.7%) had a moderate perception of futile care. In addition, it was only the mean working hours per week among the demographic variables that had a statistically significant relationship with perception of futile care (P<0.05). Given the moderate perception of nurses concerning futile care, implementing suitable interventions for minimizing the frequency of futile care and its resulting tension seems to be mandatory. It is imperative to train nurses on adjustment mechanisms and raise their awareness as to situations resulting in futile care.
Samaneh Razeghi, Reza Yazdani, Amir Raee,
Volume 11, Issue 0 (3-2018)
Abstract
Considering the improvability of emotional intelligence throughout the life, if there is a meaningful relationship between emotional intelligence (EI) and ethical skills, the ethical skills of students would be promoted by conducting necessary programs. The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between emotional intelligence and ethical skills of third and sixth year dental students of Tehran University of Medical Sciences. In this cross-sectional study, all third, and sixth year dental students of Tehran University of Medical Sciences were enrolled consecutively. Participants were asked to complete a Persian and Standardized Emotional Quotient Inventory (EQI) questionnaire based on the Bar-On questionnaire as same as Moral Skills Inventory, a standardized ethical skills questionnaire. The Data were analyzed using statistical tests. There was a significant relationship between some domains of emotional intelligence with some components of ethical skills. However, there was no significant relationship between total score of EI and ethical skills. Furthermore, no significant relationship existed between ethical skills’ score and demographic variables. Married students significantly had higher scores in Moral Courage component (P=0.03). The present study showed that there is no significant relationship between the total score of EI of the participants with their total score of moral skills.
Reza Yazdani, Mojtaba Asefi,
Volume 11, Issue 0 (3-2018)
Abstract
Moral intelligence as a dimension of intelligence can provide a framework for the proper functioning of human. This function can be effective in the clinical environment such as dentistry. Therefore, the present study examined ethical intelligence of the first and sixth year dental students in the Tehran University of Medical Sciences. The present cross-sectional study was conducted in 2018 among 106 of the first and sixth year dental students. The students were selected by census sampeling and the Lennic & Kiel's Ethical Intelligence Questionnaire were used for data collection. The variables were analyzed by SPSS-Ver.22 software using descriptive and analytical statistical tests. Findings of the study indicate that there is no significant relationship between the ethical intelligence of the first and sixth year dental students. Also, in the first year students, only the indirect relationship between ethical intelligence and mother's education (P value = 0.026) and the level of household economic condition (P- value = 0.009) were found. In the sixth year students', only the direct relationship between ethical intelligence and the level of household economic condition was found (P -value = 0.015). This study showed that the ethical intelligence of dental students during education was not significantly improved, which indicates that the educational system not effecient on for promoting ethical intelligence of dental students.
