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{"title":"Midwives’ Views and Perceptions of Patient Dignity in Midwifery Services","authors":"T. Piro","doi":"10.15218/EJNM.2021.03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15218/EJNM.2021.03","url":null,"abstract":"Background and objective: Human dignity which is defined as respect to human individu-ality is a highly recommended necessity to be taken into account in medical settings to de-liver high-quality services and raise the patients’ satisfaction. Due to a lack of well-defined provisions and instructions in midwifery practice in the Kurdistan region of Iraq, human dignity is threatened in this field. The present study was an attempt to figure out the meaning of patient dignity, what threatens patients’ dignity, and how to promote patients dignity in midwifery settings in maternity departments and clinics in Erbil, in the Kurdistan region-Iraq. Method: The present qualitative study was conducted on 10 Kurdish registered midwives who were working delivery room of Maternity Teaching Hospital and Dyke Private Hospital located in Erbil, Iraqi Kurdistan. In-depth semi-structured interviews were conducted with the midwives to collect required data. The interviews were recorded and then transcribed verbatim and analyzed using the six methodological activities proposed by Van Manen, and the themes and subthemes were extracted. Results: Analyzing the transcribed interviews resulted in emergence of one main theme, namely “need for holistic support” which had subthemes, namely “need for medical sup-port”, “need for mental support”, and “need for sympathetic support”. Conclusion: Human dignity of pregnant and childbearing mothers in maternity depart-ments and clinics is relatively low due to lack of sufficient equipment and facilities and in-sufficient number of midwives and maternity staff. Therefore, appropriate measures need to be taken in these regards.","PeriodicalId":250078,"journal":{"name":"Erbil Journal of Nursing and Midwifery","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122037040","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Indications of Labor Induction at Delivery Room of Maternity Teaching Hospital in Erbil City","authors":"B. Noori, A. Saeed","doi":"10.15218/EJNM.2021.05","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15218/EJNM.2021.05","url":null,"abstract":"Background and objectives: Induction of labour means stimulation of contractions before the birth starts spontaneously, with or without ruptured membranes. The most common indications include oligohydramnios, pre-labour rupture of the membranes, high blood pressure during pregnancy, severe fetal growth restriction, post-term pregnancy, and var-ious maternal medical conditions such as chronic hypertension and diabetes. The aim of the study was to find out the different indications of labour and associated obstetrical factors in a local tertiary hospital. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted among 120 parturient women who attended a delivery room in the Maternity Teaching Hospital in Erbil City from the period of 2nd June to 2nd October 2020. After reviewing the literature, a questionnaire was pre-pared to obtain socio-demographic data, data related to reproductive characteristic and data related to the indications for labour induction. The data were analyzed using descrip-tive and inferential statistical approaches. Results: The study included 120 patients with the highest percentage of the patients (49.1%) were 16 to 23 years old and more than half of the sample (51.6%) had a post-term pregnancy, gestational hypertension and pre-eclampsia (15%). There were highly significant statistical differences between parity, gestational age and indication of labour induction, and significant differences between gravidity and antenatal care visits and indi-cations for labour induction. Conclusions: The majority of the sample had a post-term pregnancy of 40 and 42 weeks as an indication for induction of labour followed by gestational hypertension and pre-eclampsia, oligohydramnios and pre-labour rupture of membrane. There was a statistical-ly significant difference between the antenatal care visit and parity with the induction of labour.","PeriodicalId":250078,"journal":{"name":"Erbil Journal of Nursing and Midwifery","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133217638","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Dialysis-Related Factors Affecting Activities of Daily Living among Hemo-dialysis Patients in Erbil City","authors":"S. Ali, V. Naqshbandi, Shihab Sedeeq","doi":"10.15218/EJNM.2021.01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15218/EJNM.2021.01","url":null,"abstract":"Background and objectives: Hemodialysis procedure is one of the important replacement therapies for patients with renal failure. Maintenance hemodialysis is associated with many complications that play a significant role in the activities of daily living. The present study aimed to find out the factors affecting activities of daily living among patients with maintenance hemodialysis in Erbil City in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Methods: The cross-sectional study was conducted on 268 patients undergoing mainte-nance hemodialysis for more than two months, and at least two times per a week at two dialysis centres in Erbil City from December 2019 to April 2020. The activities of daily living and complications from the hemodialysis procedure questionnaire to collect research da-ta. The data analysis was conducted using descriptive statistical approach including fre-quency, percentages, and inferential statistical analysis consisting chi-square test. Results: According to the findings of the study, the majority of participants were above 51 years of age, able to read and write, with middle income, and from an urban area. Almost half of the study sample were males, and most were on hemodialysis between one and three years. The majority of them had hypertension and complications associated with he-modialysis such as headache and hypotension, and more than half had back pain. A highly significant association was found between dependency in activities of daily living and some socio-economic and clinical variables. Furthermore, a significant association was found be-tween dependency in activities of daily living and some hemodialysis complications with P<0.001. Conclusion: According to the result of the study, the researchers concluded that partici-pants suffered from chronic diseases, hemodialysis complications and low level of activities of daily living. The complications of hemodialysis treatment were significantly affecting the activities of daily living. Haemodialysis patients need more education and nursing care to reduce treatment complications and to increase their activities.","PeriodicalId":250078,"journal":{"name":"Erbil Journal of Nursing and Midwifery","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114831468","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Assessment and Clinical Outcomes of Fall Related Injuries at Emergency","authors":"Shawbo Osman, V. Naqshbandi","doi":"10.15218/EJNM.2021.06","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15218/EJNM.2021.06","url":null,"abstract":"Background and objectives: Falls are significant cause of mortality and morbidity with a considerable burden on societies, families and victims. The study aims to determine the interventions and outcomes of fall-related injuries, and the association between injury se-verity and fall height. Methods: A descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted among 322 fall-related in-jured persons in West and East emergency hospitals in Erbil City from September 2020 to February 2021. Study sample demography, location of injury, place of affected body re-gions, outcome, and hospital stay were analyzed. Results: Of the 322 patients studied, 68.9% were males, and 31.1% were female. Less than half of the samples (48.8%) were between the ages 18 to 36 years old. The most common location for fall-related injuries was residential facilities (44.1%) followed by the place of work (35.1%). According to the type of fall, fall from ground was 38.4%, and fall from a fall height of 1-3 meters was 48.8%. Finally, according to the injury classification, more than half (56.5%) of the study sample had a significant degree of severity. The discharged status of disposition at the emergency room had the highest percentage (64.9%) of the study sample. There was a significant difference between the scores of the items of fall conse-quences and outcomes regarding to type of ground (soft or hard). There was a significant relationship between injury severity and fall height (p-value = 0.00). Conclusion: Fall-related injuries are the most common cases at emergency departments in Erbil city. Among ages 18 to 36, men are more frequently exposed to falls than women. The highest risk of fall is occupation with construction laborers at the greatest risk. Fall-related injury is a burden on the health care system, particularly on emergency services in developing countries like Iraq in relations cost of care and resources.","PeriodicalId":250078,"journal":{"name":"Erbil Journal of Nursing and Midwifery","volume":"106 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124174871","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Appraising Quality of Nursing Practices in the Medical and Surgical Wards of Public Hospitals in Erbil City","authors":"Z. Esmael, N. Al-Tawil","doi":"10.15218/ejnm.2020.05","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15218/ejnm.2020.05","url":null,"abstract":"Background and objectives: Appraising the quality of nursing practices is a cornerstone for improving the nursing services. The objective of the study was to appraise the quality of nursing care provided to patients in the medical and surgical wardsMethods: A cross-sectional study was conducted in the medical and surgical wards of Hawler, Rizgary, and the Maternity Teaching Hospitals located in Erbil city, Kurdistan region of Iraq, starting from December 17, 2016, until September 30, 2017. The researcher used to visit the hospital wards four days per week in order to monitor the nursing practices using a questionnaire adapted from the WHO. All the nurses were included in the study except for those who were not present during the researcher’s visit. Data were analyzed by the SPSS program, and a p-value of less than 0.05 was considered significant.Results: Only 37.8% of the nurses performed assignments in a good manner, and none performed assignments in a very good manner. Nearly all the nurses performed poorly in the following areas: disposal of soiled linen promptly; ventilation and adequate lighting in the ward; cleanliness in ward/room; hand washing before and after patient treatment; and observation rules and upholding standards. Results showed that 52.7% of nurses showed a genuine interest in the comfort and health improvements of patients.Conclusions: The performance of nurses working in Erbil public hospitals was, in general, not so satisfactory (fair). It is recommended to engage the nurses in courses of continuing professional development (CPD) and to set standards for nursing care in the mentioned hospitals.","PeriodicalId":250078,"journal":{"name":"Erbil Journal of Nursing and Midwifery","volume":"63 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134393659","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Assessment of the Levels of Hopelessness among the Patients with Major Depressive Disorder in Sulaimani City","authors":"T. Faraj, S. Muhsin","doi":"10.15218/ejnm.2020.08","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15218/ejnm.2020.08","url":null,"abstract":"Background and Objectives: Major depressive disorder associated with greater morbidity and mortality. Many researchers have sought complex association between depressions with hopelessness. The level of severity of such factors can play role in the causes, recovery and prediction of depression. The main objective of this study is to assess the levels of hopelessness among patients with major depressive disorder.Methods: A quantitative descriptive study design was conducted at a psychiatric clinic in the Ali Kamal Medical Consultation Center in Sulaimaniya City. A non-probability, convenient sampling was recruited of 150 patients with major depressive disorder attending the psychiatric clinic. The data was collected from December, 21st, 2017 to April 1st, 2018 by the researcher of current study through the utilization of structured interview guided by the questionnaire.Result: The results show that the patients with major depressive disorder experience moderate level to severe level of hopelessness. Suicidal attempt is a highly significant fac-tor affecting the levels of hopelessness.Conclusions: The study concluded that hopelessness value on its own the strongest significant factor may represent emotional source and possibly used to handle or cope with depressed mood by the patients.","PeriodicalId":250078,"journal":{"name":"Erbil Journal of Nursing and Midwifery","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131195085","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Heart Failure Patients’ Knowledge and Barriers of Low Sodium Diet Adherence in Erbil City","authors":"Chnar Qadir","doi":"10.15218/ejnm.2020.06","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15218/ejnm.2020.06","url":null,"abstract":"Background and objective: A low sodium diet is a cornerstone of non-pharmacologic therapy for heart failure patients. The objective of the study was to assess knowledge and perceived barriers of low sodium diet adherence of heart failure patients in Erbil City.Methods: A descriptive, cross-sectional study design was conducted among a sample of 50 patients diagnosed heart failure in Medical Wards and Cardiac Care Units at both Rizgary and Hawler Teaching Hospitals in Erbil City from Feb 2018 to Oct 2019. Patients who met the inclusion criteria were selected for participation of the study, interviews based on a questionnaire patient’s sociodemographic, clinical characteristics and the Dietary Sodium Restriction Questionnaire (DSRQ). Frequency, percentage, and the chi-square test were used for analyzing data.Results: The results show that majority of heart failure patients were low knowledge (80%) and high perceived barriers (66%) to low sodium diet adherence. There were significant associations between knowledge and barrier with age group (p-value=0.01; p-value=0.04), gender, (p-value=0.00; p=0.05), level of education (p-value=0.00; p-value=0.02) and economic status (p-value= < 0.001; p-value= <0.001).Conclusion: Results of the study show that heart failure patients had low knowledge and perceived more barriers to adherence of low sodium diet.","PeriodicalId":250078,"journal":{"name":"Erbil Journal of Nursing and Midwifery","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126551589","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Physical Activities among Diabetic Patients Attending Diabetic Centers in Kurdistan Region, Iraq","authors":"Jawdat Mamand Alhagbaker, S. Ali, B. Ahmed","doi":"10.15218/ejnm.2020.07","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15218/ejnm.2020.07","url":null,"abstract":"Background and objective: Physical activity is defined as basic public health for the human body and one of the main treatments for many chronic diseases, especially diabetes mellitus. The aim of this study to assess the level of physical activity among diabetic patients in Kurdistan and determine the association between levels of physical activity and certain variables of socio-demographic and clinical data.Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted on 444 diabetes patients in the Kurdistan region of Iraq. The data was collected from 20th June to 10th September 2018 through interviews by using a questionnaire checklist. The data was analyzed by using the statistical package for the social sciences program.Results: Nearly half of the participants (49.1%) were middle-aged (36 - 55 years). Majority of them were females (65.1%), married (88.1%) and illiterate (42.3%). Nearly half of them (43.9%) were obese, having high blood glucose levels (76.8%) and half of them (50%) had hypertension. Majority (75.5%) of participants were within high levels of physical activity. A highly significant relationship was found between the level of physical activity and sex (P-value < 0.001), presence other chronic diseases, hypertension and heart disease. There were significant relationships between the body mass index and diagnostic duration of diabetes mellitus with the presence of other chronic diseases, presence hypertension, and heart disease.Conclusion: The majority of diabetic patients had high levels of physical activity, high blood sugar levels, obese, and had many chronic diseases. There was a statistically significant association between the level of physical activity with some variables of socio-demographic and clinical data. There was a highly significant association between body mass index and diagnostic duration of diabetes mellitus with the presence of other chronic disease.","PeriodicalId":250078,"journal":{"name":"Erbil Journal of Nursing and Midwifery","volume":"65 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129698425","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Consequences of Emotional Intelligence in Nursing: A Concept Analysis","authors":"A. Alsufyani, O. Baker, Yasir M. Alsufyani","doi":"10.15218/ejnm.2020.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15218/ejnm.2020.10","url":null,"abstract":"Background and Objectives: Emotional intelligence refers to a social skill, which enables individual to better regulate emotions and cope up with the different demands and environmental pressures. This assists in enhancing professional competence enabling better delivery of services. This paper aimed to examine the consequences of emotional intelligence in the nursing profession by presenting its concepts, definitions, models, and implications.Methods: A literature review study was made and articles were searched from various databases including Scopus, EMBASE, ProQuest, PsychINFO, and CINAHL, using key terms “emotional intelligence,” “nursing,” and “concept analysis” from 2000 to 2019. Twenty articles were included following their compliance with the inclusion and exclusion criteria and removing of the duplications.Results: Social and personal attributes affect emotional intelligence. Self-awareness, relation-ships, self-management, and social awareness are other important components of emotional intelligence. The nursing professional explains a social and personal aspect that emotional intelligence entails and further portrays a meaningful role of emotional intelligence in both the sensitivity and moral dimension of clinical practice.Conclusion: The nursing professionals who possess increased emotional intelligence experience few emotional psychosomatic symptoms and emotional exhaustion, greater workshop collaboration and teamwork, more satisfaction with their jobs, fewer unidentified patient care needs, and better emotional health.","PeriodicalId":250078,"journal":{"name":"Erbil Journal of Nursing and Midwifery","volume":"74 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131151204","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Risk Factors Associated with Early and Late-onset of Neonatal Sepsis in Duhok City","authors":"Delshad Mohamed, S. Ibrahim, S. Sulaiman","doi":"10.15218/ejnm.2020.01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15218/ejnm.2020.01","url":null,"abstract":"Backgrounds and objectives: Neonatal sepsis refers to bacterial, fungal, protozoan infections or any viral agents or pathogens which inter to the newborns bloodstream after the birth. Neonatal Sepsis is the main reason of deaths in non-developed countries. There is an overall prevalence of 54.67% in Iraq. The present study intends to explore the demographic and clinical affecting factors of early and late onset of neonatal sepsis of a sample population in Duhok city. The predictors of neonatal sepsis diagnosis were determined accordingly.Methods: This cross-sectional study shows 110 neonates who were diagnosed with early or late onset of neonatal sepsis. A paediatrician diagnosed the patients through physical and clinical assessment.Results: The prevalence of early and late onset of neonatal sepsis was 52.73% and 47.7%, respectively. The Apgar scores of less than seven and more than seven were risk factors for early and late-onset of neonatal sepsis, prolonged rupture of the membranes greater than18 hours and multiple gestations are common in patients with early onset of neonatal sepsis.Conclusions: The study showed that the early onset of neonatal sepsis or late-onset of neonatal sepsis was associated with Apgar score and prolonged rupture of the membranes.","PeriodicalId":250078,"journal":{"name":"Erbil Journal of Nursing and Midwifery","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134079582","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}