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Background and Aim: Elderly abuse is one of the forms of domestic violence that affects the health, safety and quality of life of the elderly. The aim of this study was to determine the effect of appropriate training package on appropriate treatment of the elderly on family abuse of rural elderly in Ivan city in 1398. Materials and Methods: This was an experimental study of pre-test-post-test with a control group. 92 elderly people living in the villages of Ivan city were selected by stepwise cluster sampling method. The research tool was a questionnaire on elder abuse. An appropriate treatment package for the elderly was provided to 46 family members in the experimental group during 8 weeks. Data were analyzed by descriptive statistics and McNemar, paired and independent t-tests and analysis of covariance in SPSS-22 software. Significance level was considered 0.05. Results: There was no physical abuse or rejection. The mean scores of elder abuses in the experimental group before and after the intervention had a significant decrease in the dimensions of emotional neglect, psychological abuse (p=0.001) and care neglect (p= 0.01). The mean scores of elder abuses in the experimental and control groups after the intervention had a significant decrease in the dimensions of emotional negligence (p=0.001) and financial negligence (p=0.01). Conclusion: Providing an educational package for appropriate treatment of the elderly was effective in reducing some aspects of family abuse with rural elderly. It is recommended to use the mentioned educational package to change the behavior of elderly family members. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduction: There is a close relationship between a nurse’sinherent spirituality and the tendency to provide spiritual care. This means that anurse with stronger inherent spirituality provides more spiritual care to patients. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between demographic variables and emotional intelligence and spiritual health in the nurses working in the teaching hospitals of Ilam city. Materials and Methods: This was a descriptive-analytical study onthe nurses working in the teaching hospitals ofIlam. The research sample included all the nurses of teaching hospitals ofIlamcity, who were selected by census. The research instrument includedthree questionnaires;a demographic questionnaire (age, gender, marital status, work experience, and employment status), a 20-item spiritual health questionnaire, and the 90-item standard Barquestionnaire for emotional intelligence. The spiritual health questionnaire, already validated by Tavan et al.,included 20 questions infour dimensions (five questions for each of contemplation, beliefs, morality, and philosophy/lifestyledimensions). Finally, the data was entered into and analyzed by SPSS version 19 software. Results: This descriptive study was conducted on 130 nurses working in the teaching hospitals of Ilam. Of these, 79 (60.8%) and 51 (39.2%) were males and females, respectively. The mean spiritual health scores were obtained as 23.72, 21.98, 22.68, and 22.47 in the contemplation, beliefs, morality, and philosophy/ lifestyledimensions, respectively, with the total score of 90.86. The total score of emotional intelligence was 313.34. Among the nurses, 7 (5.4%), 115 (88.5%), and 8 (6.2%) had moderate, high, and very high emotional intelligence, respectively. Conclusion: The nurses’ spiritual health was at the moderate-high level for all the participants, and it can be promoted by implementing education programs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: ABUSE is among the meaning of deprivation of human rights and grandeur that appear as negligence, authority negation, financial exploitation, physical and psychological vexations, and rejection. This study was done to investigate the ABUSE of family with rural elderly in the city of Ivan in 2019. Methods: 92 elderlies who lived in two villages of the city of Ivan in 2019 were selected by stage cluster sampling in this descriptive cross-sectional study. An 8-point Iranian questionnaire of ABUSE related to the elderly in the family and with scores ranging from 0 to 100 was the research tool. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics in SPSS-16 software. Results: There was no physical ABUSE and rejection, but the highest level of ABUSE was emotional negligence. The mean scores of financial ABUSES were less than 10%, authority negation less than 15%, financial neglect less than 20%, caring neglect and psychological ABUSE less than 25%, and emotional negligence less than 55% in both villages. Conclusion: It is suggested that the ABUSE level be measured using the elderly in homes and centers such as hospitals, nursing homes, etc. the injured elderly should be screened and receive necessary consultation and support services. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]