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Quality of life of people wounded in the Gaza war

Abu-El-Noor, Mysoon K.; Abu-El-Noor, Nasser I.; Eljedi, Ashraf Y. (MA Healthcare, 2016)

In the last eight years, there have been three wars between Israel and the Gaza Strip. The last war (2014) continued for 51 days and left 2191 dead and 10 895 wounded. This study aimed to assess quality of life (QOL) of ...

Mapping the road for a new spiritual care policy: Identifying barriers and enhancing factors for providing spiritual care to cardiac patients

Abu-El-Noor, Mysoon K.; Abu-El-Noor, Nasser I. (Routledge, 2016)

This study is designed to explore barriers and solutions for providing spiritual care to hospitalized cardiac patients living in the Gaza Strip. A qualitative approach using a semi-structured interview format with 12 health ...

An evidenced-based study :Measuring the effect of implementing an Infection Control Program on health care providers ' Compliance to Infection Control Measures'

Aljeesh, Yousef I.; Abu-El-Noor, Nasser I. (2015)

In Palestinian, 10% of deaths among children under the age of five are related to infections. Practice of infection prevention and control reduces the number of hospital-acquired infections. The purposes of this study ...

Identifying and Prioritizing the Research Needs Related to Mental Health in Gaza Strip-Palestine

Aljeesh, Yousef I.; Abu-El-Noor, Nasser I. (2015)

Background: An important function of research is to identify community needs in certain fields. As mental health is a vital issue to us, identifying and prioritizing mental health needs is important to policy makers to ...

Negotiated reorienting: a grounded theory of nurses’ end-of-life decision-making in the intensive care unit

Gallagher, Ann; Bousso, Regina Szylit; Mccarthy, Joan; Kohlen, Helen; Andrews, Tom; Paganini, Maria Cristina; Abu-El-Noor, Nasser I.; Cox, Anna; Haas, Margit; Arber, Anne; Abu-El-Noor, Mysoon K.; Baliza, Michelle Freire; Padilha, Katia Grillo; Group, Making IN Intensive Care Research (Pergamon, 2015)

Background Intensive care units (ICUs) focus on treatment for those who are critically ill and interventions to prolong life. Ethical issues arise when decisions have to be made regarding the withdrawal and withholding of ...

Quality of life in prostate cancer survivors in developing countries: The case of the Gaza Strip, Palestine

Abu EL Noor, Nasser Ibrahim; Abu EL Noor, Mysoon Khalil (2015)

Background & Aim: Prostate cancer is one of the most common cancers in males and the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths in Palestine. Although, many studies were conducted in de-veloped countries to evaluate ...

Assessing Spiritual Well-Being of Arab Muslim Prostate Cancer Survivors: A Reflection for a New Spiritual Health Care Policy

Abu-El-Noor, Nasser I.; Radwan, Abdalkarim S. (2015)

Religious and spiritual beliefs are some of numerous factors that influence quality of life outcome of cancer survivors. Spirituality is believed to be an important component of overall well-being and it is especially ...

End of Life-Decisions: An Islamic Perspective

Abu-El-Noor, Nasser I.; Abu-El-Noor, Mysoon K. (2014)

Importance of Spiritual Care for Cardiac Patients Admitted to Coronary Care Units in the Gaza Strip: Patients’ Perception

Abu-El-Noor, Mysoon K.; Abu-El-Noor, Nasser I. (Sage Publications, 2014)

Purpose: This study aimed to assess the perception of hospitalized cardiac patients in coronary care units (CCUs) in the Gaza Strip about the importance of assessing and providing spiritual care to them. Design: This was ...

العوائق التي يواجهها مرضى سرطان البروستاتا القاطنين في قطاع غزة وتحد من استفادتهم من الخدمات الصحية المتاحة

Abu-El-Noor, Nasser I. (الجامعة الإسلامية - غزة, 2011)

There are several studies that aimed to identify barriers to health care utilization, but none of them was conducted in a developing country that addressed barriers to health care utilization facing prostate cancer survivors. ...