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Moral Distress and its Influential Factors in the Nurses of the Nursing Homes in Khorasan Provinces in 2019: A Descriptive-Correlational Study

BACKGROUND: Nurses in nursing homes are constantly faced with various moral decisions in terms of elderly care, which in turn causes moral distress. This study aimed to evaluate the moral distress status and its influential factors in the nursing homes in Khorasan provinces, Iran. MATERIALS AND METH...

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Autores principales: Sedaghati, Ali, Assarroudi, Abdolghader, Akrami, Rahim, Rad, Mostafa
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7494168/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33014744
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijnmr.IJNMR_158_19
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author Sedaghati, Ali
Assarroudi, Abdolghader
Akrami, Rahim
Rad, Mostafa
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Assarroudi, Abdolghader
Akrami, Rahim
Rad, Mostafa
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description BACKGROUND: Nurses in nursing homes are constantly faced with various moral decisions in terms of elderly care, which in turn causes moral distress. This study aimed to evaluate the moral distress status and its influential factors in the nursing homes in Khorasan provinces, Iran. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This descriptive-correlational study was conducted on 227 nurses engaged in the nursing homes of Khorasan provinces in 2019. The subjects were selected via census sampling. Data were collected using demographic, occupational, and care center characteristics questionnaire and a moral distress questionnaire. Data analysis was performed in SPSS version 16 using the Mann–Whitney U and Kruskal–Wallis test. RESULTS: The mean (SD) score of moral distress was 28.68 (19.19), and 93.83% of the subjects reported low levels of moral distress. Significant correlations were observed between moral distress and age, work experience, workplace, nurse–physician relations, motivation of the nurses, care facilities, and medical equipment. Furthermore, the highest mean (SD) score of moral distress belonged to the items regarding the lack of work experience 12.19 (3.12). CONCLUSIONS: According to the results, moral distress in the nurses of the studied nursing home was relatively low. Despite the favorable outcome of the study, the age discrimination of nurses by nursing homes should not be overlooked.
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spelling pubmed-74941682020-10-01 Moral Distress and its Influential Factors in the Nurses of the Nursing Homes in Khorasan Provinces in 2019: A Descriptive-Correlational Study Sedaghati, Ali Assarroudi, Abdolghader Akrami, Rahim Rad, Mostafa Iran J Nurs Midwifery Res Original Article BACKGROUND: Nurses in nursing homes are constantly faced with various moral decisions in terms of elderly care, which in turn causes moral distress. This study aimed to evaluate the moral distress status and its influential factors in the nursing homes in Khorasan provinces, Iran. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This descriptive-correlational study was conducted on 227 nurses engaged in the nursing homes of Khorasan provinces in 2019. The subjects were selected via census sampling. Data were collected using demographic, occupational, and care center characteristics questionnaire and a moral distress questionnaire. Data analysis was performed in SPSS version 16 using the Mann–Whitney U and Kruskal–Wallis test. RESULTS: The mean (SD) score of moral distress was 28.68 (19.19), and 93.83% of the subjects reported low levels of moral distress. Significant correlations were observed between moral distress and age, work experience, workplace, nurse–physician relations, motivation of the nurses, care facilities, and medical equipment. Furthermore, the highest mean (SD) score of moral distress belonged to the items regarding the lack of work experience 12.19 (3.12). CONCLUSIONS: According to the results, moral distress in the nurses of the studied nursing home was relatively low. Despite the favorable outcome of the study, the age discrimination of nurses by nursing homes should not be overlooked. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2020-06-17 /pmc/articles/PMC7494168/ /pubmed/33014744 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijnmr.IJNMR_158_19 Text en Copyright: © 2020 Iranian Journal of Nursing and Midwifery Research http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Sedaghati, Ali
Assarroudi, Abdolghader
Akrami, Rahim
Rad, Mostafa
Moral Distress and its Influential Factors in the Nurses of the Nursing Homes in Khorasan Provinces in 2019: A Descriptive-Correlational Study
title Moral Distress and its Influential Factors in the Nurses of the Nursing Homes in Khorasan Provinces in 2019: A Descriptive-Correlational Study
title_full Moral Distress and its Influential Factors in the Nurses of the Nursing Homes in Khorasan Provinces in 2019: A Descriptive-Correlational Study
title_fullStr Moral Distress and its Influential Factors in the Nurses of the Nursing Homes in Khorasan Provinces in 2019: A Descriptive-Correlational Study
title_full_unstemmed Moral Distress and its Influential Factors in the Nurses of the Nursing Homes in Khorasan Provinces in 2019: A Descriptive-Correlational Study
title_short Moral Distress and its Influential Factors in the Nurses of the Nursing Homes in Khorasan Provinces in 2019: A Descriptive-Correlational Study
title_sort moral distress and its influential factors in the nurses of the nursing homes in khorasan provinces in 2019: a descriptive-correlational study
topic Original Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7494168/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33014744
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijnmr.IJNMR_158_19
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