Journal of Rafsanjan University of Medical Sciences

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Background and Objectives: Changing the roll of hospital in far future and necessity of long and medium term planning regarding to these changes is undeniable. Evaluation and selection of different approaches to change the hospitals, requires extensive investigations in this area to find the best response, considering the conditions and characteristics of a country.

Materials and Methods: This study was conducted in two phases: comparative and interviews with experts. The aim was to gather information about active hospital wards in other countries in the first phase and to obtain expert opinions about the wards needed in the years ahead, in the second phase.

Results: The results indicated the necessity of expanding outpatient departments in the field of: chronic diseases and cancer, geriatrics (regarding to population aging trend), Recovery after long-term care, sleep clinics, health infrastructure services such as weight management, management of risk factors, lifestyle modification and in some cases, more specialized inpatient departments such as bone marrow transplantation and toxicity.

Conclusion: Based on results obtained, the proposed future structure of the hospitals is divided at four levels, the public and nation-wide wards, specialty and subspecialty wards which is limited to some hospitals in the country, luxury and unnecessary wards services and alternative and complementary medicine wards.

Key words: Hospital, Future study, Need, Hospital wards

Funding: This research was not funded by any organization.

Conflict of interest: There was no conflict of interest.

Ethical approval: In this study there was not need to any ethical approval.

How to cite this article: Amin E, Ghasemi E, Haghdoost AA, Hashemian F, Sabermahani A. The HospitalWards ofthe FutureFramework. J Rafsanjan Univ Med Sci 2016; 15(7): 607-20. [Farsi]

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Background and Objectives: Sick building syndrome (SBS) is a building-related illness in which people in the environment do not experience proper physical and mental well-being. Mental and physical changes include headache, nausea, abnormal fatigue, lack of concentration, sensation of an unpleasant odor. Thus, the aim of this study was to investigate the frequency of SBS and its related factors in nurses at Ali Ibn Abitaleb hospital in Rafsanjan City in 2018.
Materials and Methods: This cross-sectional study was performed using standard MM040EA questionnaire related to SBS and indoor air quality at Ali Ibn Abitaleb hospital in Rafsanjan city in 2018. 285 nurses in different wards of the hospital were entered the study using census method. Data were analyzed by descriptive statistics and chi-square test.

• : The mean ± standard deviation of age for participating nurses was 34.04±7.90 years. Fatigue 88 (63.8%), dry hands and itching and red skin 71 (51.4%) were the most frequent symptoms of SBS among the nurses. 68 (49.3%) nurses complained of unpleasant odors of the workplace every week, and 77 (56.2%) nurses felt their workload was sometimes high. Demographic characteristics, work environment and working conditions did not show any statistically significant difference with the frequency of SBS (p>0.05).
• : Due to the high frequency of SBS in hospital nurses and its effects on performance and productivity, it is necessary to re-engineer the hospital environment and improve the work environment, especially ventilation of hospital wards.

Key words: Sick building syndrome, Work environment, Nurses, Hospital wards, Rafsanjan

• This study was funded by Rafsanjan University of Medical Sciences.

Conflict of interest: None declared.
Ethical approval: The Ethics Committee of Rafsanjan University of Medical Sciences approved the study (IR.RUMS.REC.1397.113).
 How to cite this article: Khodadadi H, Mobini Lotfabad M, Shykh Ali Babaie Mahani F, Mahbobi rad M,  AsadPour M, Eslami H, Khajeh Hosseini Sh, Bagherinasab H. Frequency of Sick Building Syndrome and Its Related Factors in Nurses at Ali Ibn Abitaleb Hospital in Rafsanjan City 2018: A Cross-Sectional Study. J Rafsanjan Univ Med Sci 2020; 19 (6): 591-602. [Farsi]