Introduction and Objective Job stress is one of the major threats to health and it is associated with many diseases and family problems. Midwives experience high job stress due to the management of delivery emergencies. Personality traits and emotional intelligence can be helpful in confronting environmental pressures and selecting the strategy of coping with useful stress. Thus, the current research was conducted to evaluate the relationship between job stress, personality traits and emotional intelligence in midwives of Lorestan health care centers. Methodology This research was a cross-sectional and correlational study. Midwives working in all cities of the Lorestan province were randomly selected and they completed the job stress, emotional intelligence and personality traits questionnaires. Data were analyzed using SPSS 16 software and a significance level of p <0.05 was considered. Results The results of the research showed that mean and standard deviation of job stress, emotional intelligence and personality trait midwives were 94.36 ± 12.98, 11.87 ± 14.30, and 135.51 ± 15.73 respectively. The results showed a negative relationship between intelligence and job stress (r= –0/274, p=0.0001) and no significant relationship was found between personality traits and job stress (r = –0.288, p=0.079). Conclusion A negative correlation was found between emotional intelligence and job stress, so emotional intelligence can reduce midwives’ workplace stress.

Background & Aims: Secondary traumatic stress (STS) can be described as an occupational hazard for those providing care to victims of trauma. In health professions, there are times when individuals are in constant and close contact with trauma survivors and experience significant emotional disturbance, thereby becoming indirect trauma victims. Some of STS symptoms include increased negative emotions, the existence of annoying thoughts, failure to separate work from personal life, decreased frustration tolerance, increased anger, depression, disabling and selfish behaviors, fear of working with certain people, self-blame, keeping on one's toes, decreased sense of competence at work, lack of goal, lack of enjoying the profession, decreased performance in unprofessional conditions, and loss of hope in life. Numerous factors such as environmental factors (e.g., work style, perceived organizational support, workload, client needs, and relationships with colleagues) and individual factors (e.g., level of education, level of experience, and coping styles) contribute to STSS. Nurses in psychiatric wards are faced with severe and complicated challenges in the workplace to provide mental health care. In addition, they should be aware of the risk factors and symptoms of STS. Nurses need to skillfully develop resilience in order to cope with occupational problems and ensure their mental health since resilience and the associated behaviors help overcome negative experiences and turn them into positive experiences. The present study aimed to investigate STS and resilience in the nurses at the psychiatric medical centers affiliated to Tehran University of Medical Science in 2018. Materials & Methods: This cross-sectional, descriptive study was conducted on 200 nurses working in the psychiatric medical centers affiliated to

Background: Diabetes is the most prevalent metabolic disease in human being. The lifestyle of this population is important and effective in the treatment process. Training is among the most basic methods of prevention, treatment and control of chronic diseases, including diabetes. This study was conducted to investigate the effect of teach-back method on health promoting lifestyle of people with diabetes. Methods: A total of 74 eligible patients with type II diabetes were included in the study from Endocrine and Metabolism Clinic by convenience sampling method. The subjects were then assigned into the control and intervention groups. The data collection instruments consisted of a demographic data form and Health Promoting Lifestyle Profile II (HPLP-II) that were provided to the subjects before and 1 month after the training. Subjects in the intervention group received a 4-session training program by means of teach-back method. The control group received only routine programs. One month after the completion of the training sessions, the questionnaires were completed by the subjects in the 2 groups. The obtained data were analyzed by Chi-square test, Fisher Exact test, Independent t-test, Paired t-test, Mann-Whitney U test, and Wilcoxon signed-rank test, using SPSS. Results: The obtained results suggested no significant differences between the 2 groups in terms of demographic and dependent variables, before conducting the intervention. The Mean±SD score of lifestyle was 113.67±19.55 in the intervention group and 115.35±9.73 in the control group, before the training, which was not significant. However, there was a difference between the Mean±SD score of lifestyle in the intervention group (160.45±10.53) and control group (119.59±11.23), 1 month after the training (P<0.001). Conclusion: Teach-back method is appropriate and feasible for patients with diabetes and is an effective method to improve the lifestyle of this population. This study was conducted over a 1-month period, and it is recommended that the effect of this method be investigated over longer periods of time in order to assess its long-term effects.

Background & Aims: One of the primary goals of health service provision is to prevent patient harm and maintain patient safety. Patient safety is defined as minimizing the risk of unnecessary injuries compared to other treatments or lack of treatment. Safe nursing care has four dimensions of nursing skills, providing physical safety, providing mental safety, and nurses' cooperation with other members. The provision of safe care depends on the quality and efficiency of nursing services. The efficiency of nurses depends on the measures taken to preserve the body and mind of nurses and the improvement of the quality of their work life. Quality of work life emphasizes personal consequences and professional improvement to meet one's needs in the four dimensions of personal life, work framework, work context, and global dimension of work. Safe care and quality of work life are important issues, and their dimensions have been assessed and identified separately in some studies, while they could be fully recognized and promoted through more approaches. The present study aimed to assess the correlation of safe nursing care and the quality of work life of nurses in the public hospitals of Rasht, Iran in 2020. Materials & Methods: This cross-sectional, descriptive-correlational study was conducted to assess the correlation between safe nursing care and quality of work life in eight public hospitals in Rasht. The participants included 250 nurses who were selected via stratified sampling based on the ratio of the total number of the nurses in the public hospitals of Rasht and each hospital department accessibly. Data were collected using a demographic questionnaire, Brooks' quality of work life (QWL) for nurses (2005), and Rashvand safe nursing care questionnaire (2017). Brooks' QWL questionnaire has four dimensions regarding the quality of work life of nurses with 42 items, including personal life (seven items), work framework (10 items), work field (20 items), global work dimension (five items). Each items was assigned a score within the range of 1-6 (Strongly Disagree=1, Strongly Agree=6) within the score range of 42-252. The reliability coefficient of this questionnaire has been confirmed at the Cronbach's alpha of 0.91. Rashvand safe nursing care questionnaire had 33 items in the four dimensions of nursing skills (16 items), mental safety (four items), physical safety (seven items), team work (five items), and one general question. The demographic and QWL questionnaires were completed by the nurses, and the safe nursing care questionnaire was completed by the nursing supervisor. Sampling was performed during September 22-October 20, 2020, and each questionnaire was completed within 20-30 minutes. The inclusion criterion was employment in a public hospital in Rasht, and the exclusion criteria were incomplete questionnaires and not returning the questionnaires. After the sampling process, 250 questionnaires were collected. Data analysis was performed in SPSS version 16 using descriptive statistics (absolute and relative fre...