The effectiveness of cognitive - behavioral education based on fatigue on dimensions of fatigue among Nurses of intensive care units.

Introduction: In recent years, fatigue in the nursing population has been an interesting topic and has been a public complaint among them. Therefore, due to the problems and costs incurred in Efficiency and job performance of nurses, it is essential to use an effective and successful treatment to reduce fatigue. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of cognitive behavioral Education based on fatigue on dimensions of fatigue among nurses of Intensive care units. Methods: The design of this research was a semi-experimental and pre-test, post test with control group. The statistical population of this study consisted of all women nurses of Intensive care units in 1396. In this research, the sampling was done by convenience sampling method, and then, based on the student list, 40 nurses were selected among the nurses who were willing to participate in the research, and finally, they were randomly assigned into two control and experimental groups. The intervention group received 8 sessions of 90 minutes cognitive - behavioral education based on fatigue and the control group did not receive any intervention. To collect the research data, questionnaires of fatigue impact scale of Fisk was used. The collected data were analyzed by using covariance analysis in SPSS21 software Results: The results of covariance analysis showed that cognitive behavioral education based on fatigue decreased fatigue (physical, cognitive and social) of nurses in experimental group compared to control group (p<0.001). Conclusions: Based on the results of this study, cognitive-behavioral education based on fatigue can be used to reduce the symptoms of fatigue (physical, cognitive and social) of nurses.