Journal of Education and Health Promotion

Investigation of the relationship between the safety climate and occupational fatigue among the nurses of educational hospitals in Zabol

. Mohsen Poursadeqiyan; . Maryam Feiz Arefi; . Saeed Khaleghi; . Ali Sadeghi Moghaddam; . Ehsan Mazloumi; . Mehdi Raei; . Mahsa Hami; . Alireza Khammar

Volume 10, Issue 9 , September 2020, , Pages 1-9

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INTRODUCTION: Some working and organizational conditions, such as psychological stress andshift work, are factors that threaten the health of staff working in health centers. These ... Read More INTRODUCTION: Some working and organizational conditions, such as psychological stress andshift work, are factors that threaten the health of staff working in health centers. These factors cancause fatigue in a long time. Fatigue reduces the ability to process information and decrease torespond to hazardous conditions and will affect the safety of the environment. Therefore, the purposeof this study was to determine the relationship between safety climate and occupational fatigue innurses working in Zabol city.METHODS: This cross‑sectional study was performed on 143 nurses working in educational hospitalsof Zabol in 2019. The proportional sampling method was used, and the Swedish OccupationalFatigue Questionnaire and the Nurses Safety Questionnaire were used for data collection. Datawere analyzed using independent t‑test, analysis of variance, Mann–Whitney, Kruskal–Wallis tests,and SPSS‑21 software.RESULTS: In the present study, 57.3% were women and 42.7% were men. The mean score ofoccupational fatigue was 85.09 ± 41.49, and the mean score of safety climate was 67.15 ± 12.73. Thereis a significant inverse relationship between occupational fatigue and safety climate. The comparisonof safety climate and its subscales between occupational and demographic variables showed that thescore of male supervisors’ attitude was 01.36 ± 2.41 while the score of female supervisors’ attitudewas 8.88 ± 2.61, and this difference was significant. Furthermore, cumulative burnout, the attitude ofsupervisors, and the safety climate were significantly different between different educational levels.CONCLUSION: The results of this study showed that there is a relationship between occupationalfatigue and safety climate. Issues related to safety and risk factors in hospitals due to the high risk ofdisease outbreak and mortality, in addition to being economical, are important in terms of the humanaspect as well. In addition, the activity of nursing staff is more important compared to other groupsbecause of providing health care and communicating with patients; thus, more education about thesafety climate of the workplace environment in hospitals can reduce nurses’ fatigue.

A survey of the relationship between work schedule and its effect on the fatigue of rescue personnel in Isfahan with a standard method of CIS202

. Ehsanollah Habibi; . Shiva Soury; . Hassan Rajabi Vardanjani; . Behnam Khodarahmi; . Habibollah Dehghan; . Mohsen Hosseini; . Hamid Esmaeli; . Abolfazl Khademi

Volume 5, Issue 5 , December 2015, , Pages 1-5

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Context: Fatigue is a factor that can have negative effects on family life, social relationshipand work. Work schedule is one of the affective factors on personnel’s fatigue in ... Read More

Factors affecting quality of life and fatigue in patients with leukemia under chemotherapy

. Amir Musarezaie; . Firuz Khaledi; . Homayoon Naji Esfahani; . Tahere Momeni Ghaleghasemi

Volume 4, Issue 3 , June 2014, , Pages 1-6

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Background: The goal of treating chronic diseases, including hematologic malignancies, isto increase patients’ life span and to improve their capabilities as much as possible; ... Read More Background: The goal of treating chronic diseases, including hematologic malignancies, isto increase patients’ life span and to improve their capabilities as much as possible; so thatpatients could maintain an appropriate level of quality of life (QoL) and continue their lives. Moststudies performed to evaluate the treatment of various diseases were mostly focused on theincrease of life expectancy regardless of the QoL and treatment issues. Furthermore, fatigueis one of the most common and distressing side effects of cancer and treatments related to it,which can affect a patient’s QoL, and be followed by many problems. This study was designedand implemented with the aim to determine the factors affecting the QoL and fatigue in patientswith leukemia undergoing chemotherapy. Materials and Methods: This was a cross-sectionalcorrelation descriptive-analytical study. One hundred and fifteen patients with leukemia referredto Sayyed-Al-Shohada Hospital were enrolled in the study through convenient sampling method.To collect data, a three-part questionnaire was used: The first part was related to demographiccharacteristics and disease-related data and the second part was the fatigue check list andthe third part was the Short-Form 36 Health Survey (SF-36) related to QoL. The data wereanalyzed after collection and coding through Software SPSS version 18 and descriptive andanalytical statistics (analysis of variance test, independent t test, Pearson’s and Spearman’scorrelation coefficient) with 95% confidence interval. Results: The results showed that there wasa significant correlation between QoL in Physical Component Summary with gender (P = 0.03),educational level (P = 0.09), and marital status (P = 0.004), Also there was a significant correlationbetween QoL in Mental Component Summary with educational level (P = 0.01) and economicstatus (P = 0.02). Findings showed that there was a significant correlation between fatigueand marital status (P = 0.005). But statistically there was no significant correlation betweendemographic variables such as age, educational level, and employment status with patients’fatigue. Spearman correlation coefficient showed that there was a significant correlation betweenfatigues with pain (P = 0.005). Also findings revealed the statistically significant correlationbetween fatigues with economic status (P = 0.003). Conclusion: According to the presentresults, it seems that some demographicfactors affect QoL and significant relationshipexists between them. Fatigue in patientswith leukemia dramatically affects their QoL.Therefore, it is important for medical staff topay attention to demographics and fatiguein leukemic patients in order to improve theirQoL and help them to organize their activitiesto promote health and QoL.

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Investigation of the relationship between the safety climate and occupational fatigue among the nurses of educational hospitals in Zabol

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A survey of the relationship between work schedule and its effect on the fatigue of rescue personnel in Isfahan with a standard method of CIS202

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Factors affecting quality of life and fatigue in patients with leukemia under chemotherapy

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