Background and Purpose: Communication has become a core topic in nursing care and investigations on this topic could have a significant impact on increasing nursing quality services. The present study aims to evaluate the communication skills and nursing staff component focusing on emotional management, others' perception and self-expression. Methods: This is a cross-sectional descriptive-analy...

nowadays it is very unlikely to come across an organization in which information and communication technology is not discussed and hasn't become one of the apprehensions of the organizational managers.to insure an effective competitive edge in educational organizations, universities from all across the world must consistently improve their information and communication technology.the purpo...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to translate and culturally and linguistically adapt the Ease of Communication Scale and to assess the level of communication difficulties for patients undergoing mechanical ventilation with orotracheal intubation, relating these difficulties to clinical and sociodemographic variables. METHODS This study had three stages: (1) cultural and linguistic adaptat...

Objective This theoretically based study examined nurse responses to cancer patient expressions of emotion using a videotaped, simulated cancer patient. Methods This study used an experimental crossover design with a videotaped patient expressing anger, sadness, and neutral emotion to elicit nurse responses. Seventy-four nurses from eight sites participated. Responses were coded using Roter int...

PURPOSE This study was conducted to assess predictor variables of husbands in multicultural families and examine the relationship among variables after setting up a hypothetical model including influencing factors, so as to provide a framework necessary for developing nursing interventions of domestic violence. METHODS The participants were 260 husbands in multicultural families in four citie...

 The ratio of independent random variables arises in many applied problems. In this article, the distribution of the ratio X/Y is studied, when X and Y are independent Rice random variables. Ratios of such random variable have extensive applications in the analysis of noises of communication systems. The exact forms of probability density function (PDF), cumulative distribution function (CDF) a...

Objectives: This study aimed at exploring the relationship of students’ attitudes towards learning communication skills to demographic variables, metacognitive skills, and to the appreciation of patient-oriented care. Methods: The cross-sectional survey study involved firstand third-term students from two traditional and two problem-based curricula (N= 351). Demographic variables, attitudes tow...

This study concerns determining the factors that may influence the communication skill of those university teachers involved in the field of agricultural sciences in Iran. Accordingly, based on a cross-sectional survey method, a conceptual model of communication skill has been devised through reviewing the related literature. Next, the model was revised by the expert panel of the study into a s...