Showing 119 results for Health
Seyede Mahboubeh Hosseini Zare, Elham Movahed, Abolghasem Pourreza, Abbas Rahimi Foroshani,
Volume 13, Issue 4 (3-2015)
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Background : Raising number of elderly people in Iran causes new concerns .One of the important issues is Social support. Social support can be critical for older adults because of their common disabilities and unavoidable dependency to maintain and improve of their health status
Materials and Methods: Questionnaires which had been used for measurement of health status and elderly social support has been collected and combined through searching resources in library and web. 5 district ions of Tehran were selected randomly in order to have a efficient sample size .The questionnaires were filled by 140 elders whom were staying in residential homes and 280 above 60 years elderlies whom were living with their families. The date were analyzed by SPSS software.
Results: 406 questionnaires among 420 questionnaires were filled which showed 96.6%. rate of responsibility. Data analysis showed a correlation between status of physical, mental and social health social support.
Conclusion: There is a significant correlation between Social support and physical ,mental, and social status of health
Mohammad Heidari, Pejman Hassani, Mansureh Ghodusi ,
Volume 14, Issue 1 (6-2015)
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Background:Job burnout is an issue which often affects personnel`s mental health and quality of services in health systems. This study is aimed to investigate the correlation between burnout and mental health in medical staffs of Valyasr hospital in Borujene due the physical and mental health`s importance of hospitals personnel.
Materials and Methods: This is a descriptive and cross-sectional study which has been conducted during the year of 1391. 133 medical personnel of the Valy Asr hospital had been selected by census. All clinical personnel had been participated in the survey apart from physician.A triple questionnaire including demographic information, general health and questions of Maslach Burnout Inventory questionnaire had been used for data collection.The data had been analyzed by ANOVA, Spearman correlation coefficient, chi-square test and SPSS (version 16).
Results: The findings revealed that majority of Personnel involved in the survey felt a distinct lack of personal accomplishment and they showed symptoms of mental disorders. Few personnel showed a distinct emotional exhaustion. More than two-thirds of the patients showed mild depersonalization. Significant reverse correlation had been observed between all dimensions of burnout and mental health.
Conclusion:The medical profession has a stressful and arduous nature.As survey`s findings point to high prevalence of psychological disorders and reverse correlation between mental health and job burnout , it is highly recommended that managers identify sources of stress and plan for applying preventive interventions and solving current problems.
Ghaseminejad, Tavafian, Heidarnia,
Volume 14, Issue 1 (6-2015)
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Introduction: Low back pain is a common problem among nurses. the purpose of this study was to assess effectiveness of physical health educational program on the quality of life of nursing staff with chronic low back pain working in hospitals in yazd.
Methood: This semi experimental study was carried over 119 employees with chronic low back pain working in hospitals in yazd in both intervention (n=60)and control (n=59) groups. The intervention group participated in a training program included a - 180 minutes education session. Data were collected through using the 36-item Short-Form Health Survey questionnaire (SF-36) at base line and 3- month follow up and analyzed using descriptive and analytical statistics.
Conclusion: This study showed the physical dimensions of quality of life including physical functioning , role physical , bodily pain and general health in the intervention group with mean age of 72/32,58/18,59/96,69/10 respectively were improved in compare with the same dimensions in control group with mean age of 60/50,47/88,38/05,51/27 at 3- month follow up (P<0/0001). There were no significant improvement in terms of mental component of quality of life in intervention (P=0/855).
Results: The results indicated the educational program could be effective on physical functioning, role physical, bodily pain and general health.
Shima Naderi, Mohammad Amiri, Leila Riahi,
Volume 14, Issue 2 (8-2015)
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Background: Hospitals are best places to provide preventive and health promotion services along with healthcare services. These studies aimed at determine the effect of establishing health promoting hospitals’ standards on hospitals indicators in Fatemieh hospital.
Materials and Methods: This is a comparative study which was conducted in Fatemieh (case) and Khatamolanbia (control) hospitals in 2013. The standards of health promoting hospitals as an independent variable were established in Fatemieh hospital. Data related to indicators of leaving hospital with personal satisfaction, Cardio pulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) and neonatal mortality were collected in both hospitals in second half of 2012 and first half of 2013. SPSS version 16 used for data analysis and Chi-square and Fisher exact tests were utilized. The results were shown by comparative tables.
Results: The neonatal mortality rate before and after the intervention was 7.28 and 14.03 in case hospital, while this rate was 5.26 and 10.83 in control hospital respectively. The percentage of leaving hospital with personal satisfaction before and after interventions was 3.43% and 2.93% respectively in case hospital and success of cardiopulmonary resuscitation in this group was 56.1% and 61.3% correspondingly. There was no significant relation between establishing standards of health promoting hospitals and indicators of leaving hospital with personal satisfaction and neonatal mortality in Fatemieh hospital, while significant relation was obtained between promoting of cardiopulmonary resuscitation indicator and standards of health promoting hospital in mentioned hospital(P=0.001).
Conclusion: Initial results revealed that establishment of health promoting hospitals’ standards had positive effects in Fatemieh hospital and lead to improve a number of indicators.
Zahra Vazife, Farshad Tavakoli,
Volume 14, Issue 2 (8-2015)
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Background: Knowledge management plays an imperative role in the success of organizations. Many factors such as organizational culture affected on knowledge management. Therefore, this study aims at investigating the association between dimensions of organizational culture with knowledge management.
Materials and Methods: A cross-sectional descriptive analytical study was conducted in 2013. Three hundred twenty two employees of three hospitals related to the Zahedan University of Medical Sciences selected through a stratified-randomized sampling. Standard instrument of organizational culture and a self-designed questionnaire of knowledge management were used for data collection. Collected data was analyzed using SPSS version 18 by descriptively and inferential statistics methods.
Results: study results indicated that there was a positive and significant association between organizational culture and knowledge management. Also, results on other objectives pointed out a positive and significant association among dimensions of organizational culture (clan, market, adhocracy) and knowledge management. There was a negative and significant relation between organizational bureaucratic culture and knowledge management.
Conclusion: Organizational culture is one of the most important tools of a successful implementation of knowledge management in organizations. Modifications of organizational culture in health care teaching hospitals of Zahedan University of medical sciences should be set towards establishing knowledge management considering organizational tribe culture and organizational adhocracy culture more than other cultures.
Mohammad Javad Kabir , Nahid Jafari , Mohammad Nahimi Tabihi, Ebrahim Mikaniki , Hasan Ashrafian Amir, Seiyed Davoud Nasrollahpour Shirvani, Araslan Dadashi , Ghasem Oveis ,
Volume 14, Issue 2 (8-2015)
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Background: One of the key duties of family physician is to form health records and provided recording services. This study conducted to form health records and aevaluate health records in family physician program in Northern Province of Iran.
Materials and Methods: This cross-sectional study was carried out in second half 2011. 139 of centers implementing family physician program in three provinces of Golestan, Mazandaran and Gilan were selected using systematic random sampling, and assessed performance recording of all family physicians. A self- designed questionnaire was used which the validity and reliability of were confirmed. Data were analyzed by SPSS18 at the significant level of p<0.05.
Results: Out of the 189 assessed family physicians, the profile of patients referred to the second level and its results were recorded in referral record forms by 43 physicians. Out of 1890 studied families, 1559 families had health record which had filled 892(57%) health record completely. Out of 5869 assessed family members, 4229 patients were examined periodically by their family physician at least once and 1919(46%) results filled entirely. during 559 were reported with health records, among which 892 were filled out completely. There was a significant difference between referral record rates to registered specialist between the Northern Province of Iran (P=0.001).
Conclusion: The quantity and quality of health record formation was not in the expectation level as well and appropriate interventions are needed.
Hossien Ansari, Mohammad Abbasi, ,
Volume 14, Issue 3 (9-2015)
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Background: There is close relationship between quality of life and human health. Since, nurses as the most important health Provider group, they should have a desirable quality of life. This study aimed at evaluating the quality of life and related variables among nurses in Zahedan University of Medical Sciences hospitals.
Materials and Methods: In this descriptive analytic study the Iranian version of SF-36 was utilized to assess nursing quality of life. Data analyzed using Stata version 12. logistic regression was used to determine quality of life predictors.
Results: Three hundred women nurses (77.9%) with mean age of 31.6 ± 6/6 years were assessed. The mean of work experience was 7.55± 6.8 years. The most quality of life score was related to Physical domain (39.6 ± 11.8) and social function had the least score(8.2±6.7). Logistic regression analysis revealed marital status, overtime work, working shift Pattern and work experience were quality of life predictors (P<0.05).
Conclusion: Study results represented undesirable quality of life among nurses. Low quality of life can affect services quality of nursing. Nursing administrators can improve nursing quality of life by setting up and adjusting overtime set up and adjust overtime shift based on work experience .
Sedigheh Abedi, Reza Khajouei,
Volume 14, Issue 3 (9-2015)
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Background: Physiotherapy information system is one of health information systems which used to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of physiotherapy department. Studies have revealed due to usability problems, users' interaction with some information systems is complicated. This study aimed at evaluating users' interaction problems with physiotherapy information system.
Materials and Methods: This study was a cross-sectional and descriptive one which performed using heuristic evaluation method; the users' interaction problems of a physiotherapy system among 105 hospitals were identified, classified and rated based on their severities by three evaluators. Data were gathered using a data collection form designed in Excel software.
Results: In this study, 82 unique interactive problems identified which majority of them 28% (n=23) were related to unconformity of system design with real world conventions with major mean severity of the problems. The lowest numbers were related to the problems including lack of guidance, system documentation and error prevention with major and minor severity respectively.
Conclusion: A number of systems, which are used in many health care centers such as assessed system in this study suffer from several problems which endanger user interaction about the systems can lead to error and patients' harm. To identify and eliminate this type of problems, it is recommend that usability evaluation of these systems to be carried out regularly to enhance users' satisfaction, workflow improvement and patient safety.
Jafar Sadegh Tabrizi, Yeganeh Partovi, Amir Bahrami, Mohammad Asghari,
Volume 14, Issue 4 (1-2016)
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Background: Type 2 diabetes is a chronic disease which has incremental prevalence regarding to unhealthy lifestyle. Based on the significant gap between received and standard care in patients with type 2 diabetes, this condition occurred high costs to health system. In order to eliminate this gap, this study aimed at measuring the technical quality of perceived care among patients with type 2 diabetes.
Materials and method: A cross-sectional study was carried out among 180 people with two type of diabetes in diabetes clinic using convenience sampling method. A three part questionnaire includes demographic information, disease statue and the technical quality questions was that the validity and reliability of it was approved. The data were analyzed using SPSS13software.
Results: Total technical quality score was 2.9 which was lower than bench mark 5. The main indices related to diabetic control (HbA1c, blood pressure, LDL) were acceptable regarding Iranian diabetic guideline and they were controlled well.
Conclusion: According to notable gap between existing standards and perceived care in type 2 diabetic patients, there is a good opportunity to promote quality of services.
Mohammad Arab, Yeganeh Hayati, Elham Movahed Kor, Mostafa Hosseini,
Volume 15, Issue 1 (6-2016)
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Background: Nowadays, managers should develop working conditions which attracts new nurses, retains current nurses and prevents their absenteeism. This study at aim at determining Effective Factor Analysis on Health Related Absence among Nurses of Clinical Wards in General Hospitals Affiliated to Tehran University of Medical Sciences
Materials and Methods: four hundred nurses of clinical wards selected as sample size to participate in this descriptive-analytical; cross-sectional study from general hospitals of Tehran University of Medical Sciences. The instrument was a questionnaire in 100 items and two sections including demographic characteristics (13 items) and effective factors of sickness absence (organizational-directorial factors in 49 questions, physical factors in 16 questions and mental factors in 22 questions). The validity of questionnaire confirmed by experts and reliability was calculated 0.79.Absenssism criterion was based on Rajbhandary and Basu' definition (2010); total numbers of days that they didn't present at ward/hospital due to sickness. Data gathered retrospectively from nurses' records. Data analyzed by SPSS using descriptive statistics tests, simple and multiple linear regressions.
Results: The mean age of participants was 44.97±5.910 and 73.8 of them were women. Explaining power of predicting factors was very well (F=71.121, P<0.01). Variables such as Marital Status (β=0.150, P<0.001), ward's type (β=-0.553, P<0.001), physical factors (β=0.101, P=0.001) and mental factors (β=0.226, P<0.001) explained 42% of the absence variance.
Conclusion: considering some aspects such as physical and mental factors and also health issues of nursing staff based on wards' type can be result in absenteeism reduction.
Sohyla Reshadat, Alireza Zangeneh, Shahram Saeidi, Elham Sufi, Nader Rjabi-Gilan, Ramin Ghasemi,
Volume 15, Issue 2 (6-2016)
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Background: Improper distribution of medical care creates access inequality to the services in developing countries. This study aimed at investigating inequalities in access to medical facilities in Kermanshah's Metropolitan Area.
Materials and Methods: The study was an applied and descriptive – analytical one. Due to the spatiotemporal nature of current research, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) were used. Research data was included hospital addresses and demographic data from statistical blocks of Kermanshah based on Iran’s 2011 census report.
Results: The study results represented that spatial distribution of hospitals was concerned on a random pattern in metropolitan of Kermanshah and there was not a special mechanism in hospitals' spatial distribution. In total, Kermanshah city has 13 hospitals with 2342 hospital bed till 2014 which the most of them were related to general hospitals. In existing situation, the statistics revealed that only 48.51% of population has covered by hospitals and 51.49% of households have no standard access. The number of existing hospitals cannot response to the citizen's needs.In this study; current location of the most hospitals was not compatible with scientific criteria; standards and usage requirement.
Conclusion: It is concluded that all residents had not equal access to hospitals; and also their distribution was not proportionate with population distribution and households. There is inequality in access to medical facilities focused on hospitals of Kermanshah's Metropolitan Area.
Keywords: Inequalities, Management, Health, Accessibility, Hospital, Geographical Information System
Jafarsadegh Tabrizi , Saeideh Alidoost, Ahmad Mardi, Mostafa Farshi-Khorsand , Mohammadali Rahmat ,
Volume 15, Issue 3 (8-2016)
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Background: Lack of financial resources or their poor organization is one of the service delivery challenges and Fraction of dedicated revenues is significant problem in health centers in financial resources management. Hence, this study conducted to investigate causes of dedicated revenue's fraction and strategies to reduce them.
Materials and Methods: This qualitative study was carried out based on phenomenology approach in East Azerbaijan Province in 2014. Data collection methods were Focus Group Discussion (FGD) and semi-structure interview guide based which continued to saturation. their participants were selected using purposeful sampling method. Data were analyzed using content analysis method.
Results: Based on participants' experiences, six themes were extracted for causes of fraction and strategies to reduce them. These themes included causes and strategies related to fractions per capita, insurance fractions, fractions related to sending documents, registration fractions, clients' deductions and fractions related to incomplete deposit of cash incomes. In general, eighteen causes and twenty three strategies were identified in dedicated revenues fractions.
Conclusion: The causes of fractions were related to all stages of changing service process to revenue and insurance obligations in health care centers and strategies and identified interventions emphasize on mentioned fields.
Zohreh Kaheh, Dr Ali Husseinzadeh Kashan,
Volume 15, Issue 4 (1-2017)
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Background: medical centers location is one of the most important problems, which should be considered in different dimensions to improve the services. In this paper, we consider the hierarchical maximum covering problem for bi-level healthcare systems including Clinics and hospitals, by taking the service rates into account. In this problem, the initial objective is minimizing the uncovered demand nodes, and secondary objective is the minimizing the lost demand rate as a measure of potentially patients’ retention in coverage radius.
Methods: In this paper, the serving system in the Tehran heart center hospital is considered for queue analyses. The proposed method is a mathematical optimization model called probabilistic two-stage programming model. To evaluate this model, a number of numerical problems are solved through GAMS software.
Results: according to the results, we have found that the best condition for locating the medical centers is that the clinic are located adjacent to a hospital. Decision making about the location problem by considering the service rate in each healthcare centers, increases the reliability to the result of the optimization model.
Conclusion: The proposed model is able to help the decision makers to attain an optimized decision for locating the medical centers in deprived areas, inspired by the medical centers in areas with similar population. Therefore, if the clinics and hospitals are located by considering the hierarchical mode and their service rates, the patients’ welfare will be enhanced.
Dr Mohammad Javad Naeiji, Fatemeh Gholami,
Volume 15, Issue 4 (1-2017)
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Background: Although the role of Spirituality has been acknowledged in the social entrepreneurship literature, we know of no research that has empirically investigated relationships between spiritual intelligence and health and care benefactors. Thus, this paper aims to propose and empirically test a theoretical model positing relationships among spiritual intelligence and intentions of hospital-makers benefactors. Materials & Methods: This study is descriptive which is conducted with total number of 164 hospital-makers benefactors, and is tested by path analysis. For measuring spiritual intelligence, three questionnaires distributed between every subject and two of his/her acquaintances. Results: The results suggest that spiritual intelligence and other related variables explained 41 per cent of the variance in the rate of hospital-makers benefactors intentions (R2=0/41) that is a sizable amount in behavioral studies. Results provide strong support for the proposition that social mission and social responsibility fully mediate the positive effect of spiritual intelligence on intentions of hospital-makers benefactor. Conclusion: With existence of opportunities for merely finical investments, hospital-makers benefactors should have high levels of spiritual intelligence to gain motivation for social wealth creation. Policy-makers of health system, to increase charitable activities, should focus on heightening spiritual intelligence in health and care sector.
Mohammad Rahim Ramezanian, Hamed Gheibdoust,
Volume 15, Issue 4 (1-2017)
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Introduction: High quality health care service leads us towards a healthy society. Present paper aimed to use the service quality concept in health care sector based on service quality approach (SERVQUAL) in public hospitals. Methods: In present research a hybrid approach based on Analytic Network Process (ANP) and Fuzzy TOPSIS was used where the former was used for prioritization of healthcare service quality measures and the latter was used to operationalize the hospitals. Questionnaires and ANP and Fuzzy TOPSIS were used for data collection and analysis. Five public hospitals in Rash were evaluated. The time period of the study including data collection was 2014-2015. Results: The service quality criteria comprised of 6 main criteria and 19 sub-criteria in present study. Among five hospitals studied in present research, Rasoul Akram hospital obtained the first rank and other hospitals obtained the other ranks. All criteria and sub-criteria used in present study obtained some rank indicating their importance in the research context. Conclusions: With conducting present research, various criteria and sub-criteria related to service quality (SERVQAL) and their importance were identified and this may contribute to improved performance of health care services
Khadijeh Akbarnejad Nashli, Azar Tol, Fereshteh Majlessi, Mahdi Yaseri, Hadi Alizadeh,
Volume 15, Issue 4 (1-2017)
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Background: health-oriented lifestyle in today’s world is the best way for preventing illness and healthy life. This study conducted to determine the predictor ofhealth-orientedlifestyle in health workers of Amol city.
Materials and Methods: This study was a cross-sectional research conducted on 222 persons of health workers of Amol city. Instrument was a questionnaire including two parts; demographic information was extracted through 15 questionsand the data collected fromthe reliable and valid questionnaire of lifestyle .Data collection. Health workers filled questionnaires in a self-declaration way. To data analyze,t-tests, Mann-Whitney, ANOVA or Kruskal-Wallis and logistic regression used. Data were analyzed statically using SPSS.
Results: This study showed that there is a significant relationship between living place of Prairie village with dimensions of sport , malnutrition , self-care ; and malnutrition dimension in persons below 35, below diploma degree, suffering a chronic disease , suffering high blood pressure ;and tobacco and alcohol consumption dimension in individuals less than35 years;men with medical advice,sport,Malnutrition,tobacco and alcohol consumption ,Health of buying,daily mobility,proper nutrition and owning a personal car with the consumption of tobacco and alcohol dimension ,safety in driving,Health of buying .
Conclusion: Considering that most of the health workers especially men do not behave based on the health-orientedlifestyle, some actions should be taken to change thebehaviorof these individuals, professional educationalworkshops or workshops that do not need to basic information shouldbe activated, because these individuals have health knowledge but do not behave according to this knowledge.
Monireh Koohsari , Dr Bahram Mohebbi, Dr Roya Sadeghi, Dr Azar Tol , Dr Abbas Rahimi Forooshani ,
Volume 15, Issue 4 (1-2017)
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Background: Considering the importance of standard precautions to prevent needle stick injuries and health care staff, this study aimed to determine the effectiveness of educational interventions to improve adherence to standard precautions, health belief model based on professional clinical staff needle stick two hospital "yaftabad" and "Ghiyasi" done.
Materials and Methods: This study was an experimental study of two group. The study population was 90 persons of professional clinical staff Shohada Hospital Yaftabad as the intervention group and 90 patients from the hospital Ghiyasi as compared to randomly selected and three part questionnaire including demographic, structures, health belief model , and practice questions were completed. In analyzing the data, descriptive and inferential statistical methods were used.
Results: At baseline, the two groups regarding demographic variables, health belief model structures and functional do not different between them. After intervention structures perceived severity, perceived susceptibility, perceived barriers, self-efficacy and performance of the experimental group showed statistically significant change (p< 0.05) that the effect of education based on health belief model.
Conclusion: education based on health belief model, you can increase the level of knowledge and capacity building and efficacy in clinical staff needs people to observe standard precautions
Yeganeh Hayati , Dr Elham Movahed , Dr Mohammad Arab ,
Volume 16, Issue 1 (4-2017)
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Background: Hospital managers inevitably have a major impact on their employees' health and because professional cohesion acheives in the shadow of psychological balance; possessing mental health is important among hospital staff. Therefore, current study aimed to determine the status of managers' leadership style and its relationship with mental health staff of hospitals affiliated to Tehran University of Medical Sciences in 2014.
Materials and Methods: This study was a cross-sectional and descriptive-analytical one and sample size consisted of 91 executives, intermediate managers and 320 employees of hospitals affiliated to Tehran University of Medical Sciences. Fiedler leadership style instrument and general health questionnaire were used. Collected data was analyzed by SPSS software version 22 using descriptive and inferential statistics tests.
Results: Responsive rate was85% (272/320). Most of managers adopted task-oriented leadership style. There was a statistically significant relationship between leadership style and mental health, physical problems, anxiety, social function and depression among staff (P<0.05).
Conclusion: Managers can be effective on mental health staff using relationship-oriented leadership style adoption and it seems necessary to train managers in adopting appropriate leadership models and styles in order to prevent and reduce mental health disorders among employees in different situations.
Mohammadreza Tavakkoli, Dr. Saeed Karimi, Dr. Marzieh Javadi, Dr. Alireza Jabbaria,
Volume 16, Issue 1 (4-2017)
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Background: In year 1995, new system administration plan of hospitals (fee for service) was notified. This scheme was implemented in hospitals for 20 years. In the early September 2104, new guidelines of performance-based fee for service plan with the aim of deficiencies in the previous plan was reviewed and implemented in hospitals in Isfahan. This study aimed at investigating reform strategies to improve monitoring performance and infrastructure implementation development of the new scheme of fee guidelines in 2014.
Materials and Methods: This study was a qualitative one based of phenomenology. Depth interviews were used to collect data. Eleven individuals assessed including top and middle managers and professors of Isfahan University of Medical Sciences using content analysis method.
Results: In this study, eight main themes and ten sub-themes extracted including appropriate policy making, health management reform in health system, cultural building in monitoring, proper planning, physicians' motivation, infrastructure improvement, improving training, informatics and constructive interactions between senior managers and hospitals' directors.
Conclusion: With the aim of rationalizing the health system, new instructions and fee for service plan should be considered well to tackle weak points. It seems that coping with these weak spots in new fee for service plan, has feasibility to provide more satisfaction among physicians and staff. To achieve main goal of the project which defined as patients and staff satisfaction, using new reform strategies to facilitate plan implementation, continuing observation and stronger mentoring recommended.
Narges Tankamani, Dr. Majid Saffari Nia, Leila Ghobadi,
Volume 16, Issue 1 (4-2017)
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Background: Hospital staffs including physicians, nurses and crew are exposed to various risks including physical and mental illnesses. The study aimed at predicting job performance based on humor components and mental health among staff of Ziaeyan hospital.
Materials and Methods: This study was a descriptive- analytical one. Sample size was 120 individuals (74 females and 46 males) who selected via non- randomly and Voluntary With a diverse range of staff including nurses, physicians in 2014. After explaining about research type and filling voluntary questionnaires with informed consent, job performance Paterson, Martin et al humor components and Goldberg mental health instruments were disseminated. SPSS Software version 17 utilized to data analysis using regression and cluster analysis.
Results: Among of humor components and mental health, Self-enhancing, depression and social performance predicted job performance positively. Depression has the largest ß coefficient(0.26) for job performance which revealed this variable the strongest one and provided main contribution to explain the criterion variable. Also, there was a statistically difference between negative morbid humor clusters and positive and healthy clusters of humor in the significant level less than 0.05(t= -7.97, p<0.001).
Conclusion: Selection of humor style and enhancing mental health of hospital staff will cause job performance improvement. Regarding stressful environment of hospital, it seems providing better mental health and applying healthy styles of humor as a proper way to staff performance improvement which should be considered.
