Background and aims : Fatigue is indicated as a factor in occupational accidents and diseases and it can reduce individual efficiency. In shift workers who experience sleep disturbance, the occupational accidents and diseases occurring can be aggravated by fatigue. The present study aims to investigate the fatigue intensity and its relationship to insomnia severity among employees of Tehran r...

 Background: Falls is due to people's failure of balance recovery. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of trunk extensor muscle fatigue on static balance control in young healthy adults compared to middle aged participants. Methods: Ten young adult females (23 ± 1.6 years) and 6 middle-aged females (51 ± 5.4 years) participated in stand immobile test on a force plat...

Background & Purpose: Nursing profession often results in chronic fatigue in nurses. Accordingly, the purpose of this study was to provide a causal model of chronic fatigue based on job stressors, sleep quality and morningness/eveningness through the mediation of organizational spirituality among the nurses of Ahwaz City. Materials & Methods: Path analysis of the correlation method was employe...

Introduction: Fatigue phenomenon, as an important and unique of living creatures, is certainly experienced by the majority of human in their life. It may cause bad effect on the expected occupational performance of workers including weakness in judgment and decision making, forgetting the details, causes indifference to the essential items and loss of performance. This study was performed to in...

Background and aims:  The importance of investigating fatigue is related to its' adverse consequences. In the health and medical services, increased rate of errors and accidents is usually observed as increased medical errors and decreased patient care, and patient safety. Methods:  This descriptive-analytical study was conducted on a group of hospital nurses volunteered to participate. The Mul...

Background: Fatigue is one of the important factors in nursing performance because it affects the quality of care provided to the patients. In this regard, some complementary interventions such as Benson relaxation techniques may relieve fatigue. This study aimed to evaluate the effect of Benson relaxation on fatigue of nurses working in intensive care units. Methods: This is an...