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Background & Aim: Nowadays in the NICU, family-centered care is the foundation of care, and communication is at the core of family-centered care. This study aimed to compare the perceptions of nurse-mother communication between neonatal intensive care nurses and mothers of hospitalized neonates. Methods & Materials: This is a cross-sectional study. 70 mothers of hospitalized newborns and 70 nurses working in the NICU ward of university hospitals and social security hospitals in Yazd, were selected by convenience sampling in 2015. The study questionnaires included the mothers’ and nurses’ demographic characteristics questionnaire, “nurses’ perceptions of nurse-mother communication” questionnaire and “mothers’ perceptions of nurse-mother communication” questionnaire. The data were analyzed using descriptive statistical tests and independent t-test on SPSS software version 19. Results: The mean age for nurses was 33.36±6.99 years and for mothers was 29.77±6.40 years. Mean score and standard deviation of perception of “nurse-mother communication” for nurses was 69±6.92 and for mothers was 57.66±11.99. Independent t-test showed statistically significant differences between mean scores (P

Aims: Belongingness is considered to be important phenomenon for nursing students and other people involved in the education of students and is perceived as a sense of student experience connection with the learning environment and is one of the most important needs of all students for success in learning environments. this study was to determine the level of Clinical belongingness in bachelor nursing students Instrument & Methods :In this study, 93 nursing students is studying in the second semester of 1394-1395 are selected and used for the belonging scale of 32 items. Data were analyzed with descriptive statistics and independent t-test and ANOVA. Findings :The mean score of students in clinical belongingness scale 3.31+_ 0.56, in the subscale self-esteem 3.34+ _0.60 , in the subscale connectivity 3.11 +_ 0.64 , in the subscale efficiency 3.46+_0.67. Independent t-test showed significant difference between the mean clinical belongingness score of students interested and uninterested to the field (p = 0.009) and between the mean clinical belonging (p = 0.05). Analysis of variance showed a significant difference between the mean clinical belongingness score of various academic semester (p = 0.000). Conclusion: Nursing students clinical belongingness has been moderate.Being interested professionals and working in practice to be effective in the experience of belongingness to clinical setting.

Introduction: Failure in social support is one of the important factors in developing postpartum depression. Since mothers with premature or sick babies have higher levels of anxiety during postpartum period in comparison with other members, they need more social support. So, in this study we decided to evaluate the relation between postpartum depression and the level of social support in mothers who have premature newborns. Methods: This descriptive-correlative study was conducted on 100 mothers who had premature newborns and were discharged from the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit of Shahid Sadoughi Hospital in 2016. The sampling was conducted using the available sampling method. Mothers were asked to complete the social support and postpartum depression questionnaire. . All collected data were entered to the SPSS v.17 and analyzed by the analytic and descriptive statistical indices. The significance level was set at p-value