Inaam A Khalaf

University of Jordan | UJ · Department of Maternal and Child Health Nursing

2004 Exploring the Use of Modern Contraceptive Methods among Jordanian Women: A Qualitative Study. Khalaf, I. Abstract This qualitative study was conducted to improve the understanding of why Jordanian women discontinue using modern family planning methods. This will help in creating guidelines for effective communication interventions to reduce...

This descriptive, ethnographic study focuses on the experience of childbirth for Muslim women living in Jordan. Thirty-two childbearing women were interviewed in the early postpartum weeks. The audiotaped interviews were transcribed and translated. Themes were identified from the rich, narrative data. Motivations for having children, as well as wha...

Introduction: Intensive care units are considered stressful and emotionally risky situations by both professionals and patients and their families. The purpose was to assess the effect of progressive muscle relaxation exercise on anxiety among nursing students in intensive care units prior to clinical training. Method: A randomized, controlled stud...

The current phenomenological-qualitative study explored the meaning of death and dying from a Jordanian-Muslim perspective. Data were collected through face-to-face interviews with eight patients and five family caregivers, then analyzed following the Braun and Clarke steps. The analysis revealed two main themes; confronting death and preparing for...

Purpose This study aims to review the lived experience of patients suffering from stroke and describe their perception of palliative care needs. Design/methodology/approach A literature review search was conducted. Web of Sciences, SAGE, CINAHL, PubMed and Jordanian Database for Nursing Research databases were used to search the literature. Findi...

Background: In Jordan, The Healthy School National Accreditation has been introduced in 2008 as anational health-promoting school program where schools are invited to voluntarily join the accreditation.Unfortunately, financial challenges and lack of resources among many other factors led to very low enrollmentrate. Method: Adopting a selected chang...

This study aims to explore the challenges in involving patients and their families in decision making near end of life and to provide recommendations to overcome these challenges. A qualitative descriptive phenomenological approach was used with a purposive sample of 8 patients, 7 family caregivers, 7 nurses, and 6 physicians from 2 institutions th...

Background COVID-19 pandemic influenced education and forced universities to shift from face-to-face teaching to remote online teaching. This sudden shift in educational pedagogy provoked several challenges to educators. Purpose The purpose of this study is to explore the first experience of nursing faculty members with online distant education (O...

This work examines the fuzzy logic-based control of a catalytic reformer. The control process requires development of an exact process model valid over a wide range of operating conditions. Two control methods, proportional integral derivative (PID) and Fuzzy-PID, were applied to determine the optimal operating conditions. The output temperature fr...

Background The unprecedented abrupt shift to remote online learning (OL) within the context of the national lockdown due to the 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19) highlights the importance of addressing students' preparedness in managing their first experiences with OL. Purpose To investigate the experiences of undergraduate nursing students duri...

Background Workplace violence is one of the most compelling problems facing health care sectors all over the world. The detrimental impact of workplace violence extends to affect nurse students who receive their training in clinical areas. Objective The study aimed to investigate the impact of witnessing workplace violence during clinical training...

Adolescents are more likely to engage in risky health practices related to COVID-19. Their compliance with infection control measures is a key factor to mitigate the spread of the disease. The purpose of this study was to explore the knowledge, attitudes, and practices toward COVID-19 and their correlates among Jordanian adolescents. An online cros...

Many mothers experience acute stress disorder after hospitalized their infant in NICU. The objective was to assess the impact of an emotional support training program on acute stress disorder level among mothers of preterm infants admitted to a neonatal intensive care unit. A pretest-posttest experimental randomized controlled trial design using th...

Activity restriction in hospital to prevent preterm birth (PTB) is widely used as the first step of treatment. It is associated with adverse physiological and psychological effects on maternal and fetal health that might persist years after birth. A sample of 10 pregnant women who were hospitalized for being at risk for PTB were purposively recruit...

Background: Sepsis is a common dangerous body response to infection that can deteriorate into septic shock. Both sepsis and septic shock require early and timely managed care, which can be implemented by using the Surviving Sepsis Campaign (SSC) guidelines for management of sepsis and septic shock. The purpose of this study was to examine the liter...

ABSTRACT Background Health-related quality of life had gained a major interest among researchers as a health outcome for all age groups, therefore, many scales had been developed to measure it. Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory TM 3.0 Cardiac Module is widely used measure and it has been translated into many languages Aim This study describes the...

Background: involving patient in end of life decision is important to understand their wishes and preference, which will help health care providers in improving the quality of dying and minimizing suffering. Aim: the aim of this review was to provide a detailed examination of the available literature related to patients' involvement in decision mak...

1.1 Background Nursing research is developing and has improved over the last 15 years in some Middle Eastern countries including Jordan. Providing current knowledge about the state of nursing research activities is vital to direct nursing research to meet the health needs of communities. 1.2 Aims and objectives To explore the state of nursing re...

Purpose: The purpose of this review was to identify the best evidence on the effectiveness of using high fidelity simulation technology for learning outcomes in nursing education. Methods: An integrative review was used to assess the effectiveness of high fidelity simulation in nursing education. Data search was between 2008 to 2018 using Google Sc...

Background: Undergoing surgery is an anxious experience for children. Applying anxiety reduction age-appropriate programs by nurses would be beneficial in reducing anxiety to children. Aim: To test the effectiveness of age-appropriate preoperative information session in reducing anxiety levels of school-age children undergoing elective surgery i...

Nurses as key healthcare professionals, have an important role in delivering high quality care, which requires positive perception, adequate knowledge and skills of implementing proper patients’ involvement in all health care aspects. Considering nurses’ perception and experiences, patients’ involvement may improve health outcomes. This integrative...

Background: Children who undergo a day case surgery experience high levels of preoperative anxiety. Preoperative anxiety interferes with anesthesia induction compliance and is associated with many short and long term postopera-tive complications. Recently, video distraction intervention has been evaluated for its anxiolytic effects in preoperative...

Aims and objectives: To determine nurses' perceptions related to smoking cessation, health promotion and interventions provided to hospitalised patients. Background: Smoking is a major health problem in Jordan. The cost for treating smoking-related health conditions is a significant strain on the healthcare system. Nurses are in an ideal positio...

Purpose: To explore the lived experiences of nurses’ feelings, emotions, grief reactions, and coping mechanisms following their patients' death. Background: On a daily basis, nurses are experiencing patients' death, which exposes them to grief. Nurses’ grief has not been sufficiently addressed in practice settings, although it has been a well-know...

Background: Parents' participation in their child's care has been recognized as a key component to develop a satisfying experience for parents of a hospitalized child. However, studies suggested that parents' participation in care is under searched for nonwestern societies.

Background Risk for unmet need for contraception is associated with men's perpetration of intimate partner violence (IPV) against women and may be influenced by violence perpetrated by other family members (family violence, FV). Women who married as minors may be most vulnerable to the potential compounding effect of IPV and FV on unmet need. Aim U...

Establishing and maintaining a quality nursing doctoral program in a country with limited resources is a challenge to program managers. Continuous evaluation is essential to pinpoint areas of improvement. This study aims to evaluate a nursing PhD program from the perspective of its first graduate cohort to provide feedback for improvement. Qualitat...

ABSTRACT Although the postpartum period is a significant time in a family's life, few studies have addressed the lack of continuity of care and service use during the postpartum period. The aim of this study was to explore the roles of family members in Jordanian women's decision to use postpartum health care services. An exploratory qualitative de...

To provide an overview of nursing research in Jordan based on the topic researched, source and setting of data collection, methodology, theoretical framework used and source of funding. Nursing research contributes to nursing education, clinical practice, health policy and the establishment of nursing research priorities in Jordan to guide future r...

An Indication of Health Awareness among Jordanian Population: Symptom Awareness and the Confirmed Medical Diagnosis Raghda Shukri; Inaam Khalaf; Adnan A Abbas This paper appears in: Medical and Biological Sciences, Dirasat Journal On Page(s): 87 - 94 Volume: 30, Issue: 2, 2003 This descriptive correlational study aimed at identifying the relations...

Exploring the Use of Modern Contraceptive Methods among Jordanian Women: A Qualitative Study Inaam A Khalaf; Medical and Biological Sciences, Dirasat Journal Page(s): 46 - 66 Volume: 31, Issue: 1, 2004 Abstract This qualitative study was conducted to improve the understanding of why Jordanian women discontinue using modern family planning methods....

Little is known about Jordanian women's help seeking for intimate partner violence (IPV), despite local and international investment in victim services. Using a clinic based survey (n = 517; response rate 70%) and focus group discussions (FGDs, n = 17) we explored Jordanian women's nonfamily help seeking for physical or sexual IPV. We evaluated sur...

Failure to address women's health, including their reproductive health needs, increases health care costs and social inequity. This descriptive study assessed the reproductive and non-reproductive health status of women over 15 years old in poverty pockets in the southern region of Jordan. Two villages were selected using purposive sampling and all...

Research on domestic violence against women has increased considerably over the past few decades. Most participants in such studies find the exercise worthwhile and of greater benefit than emotional cost; however, systematic examination of participant reaction to research on violence is considerably lacking, especially in the Middle East region. Th...

This qualitative descriptive study explored Muslim religious leaders' perception, knowledge and attitudes towards AIDS, AIDS prevention and their attitudes towards people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA). Twenty Islamic religious leaders (males and females) participated in two audio-taped focus group discussions. A content analysis approach was used to...

Childbearing is the ideal context within which to enrich spirituality. The purpose of this study was to generate themes regarding spirituality and religiosity among culturally diverse childbearing women. A secondary analysis was performed, using existing narrative data from cross-cultural studies of childbearing women. The following themes emerged...

Purpose: This study aims at describing the needs for reproductive health services among Jordanian youth, identifying problems youth encounter when using reproductive health services, and identifying youths' perceptions of the characteristics of youth-friendly reproductive health services. Methods: A qualitative study using focus groups was condu...

Abu‐Moghli FA, Khalaf IA, Barghoti FF. International Journal of Nursing Practice 2010; 16 : 35–42 The influence of a health education programme on healthy lifestyles and practices among university students This study aimed at exploring the lifestyles of university students, the relationship between specific demographical variables and health practi...

Computerized Clinical Decision Support Systems (CDSSs) are defined as computer-based tools using scientific knowledge to generate patient specific advice or interpretation to help health professionals in making clinical decisions. The use of computers has been driven not only by the increasing need to manage large amounts of information, but also b...

This qualitative descriptive study explored Jordanian health care providers' perceptions of the health care that they provide for post-partum mothers. Thirty Jordanian health care providers (physicians, nurses and midwives) participated in three focus group discussions. A content analysis approach was used to analyse the data as appropriate for des...

Background: Neonatal care demands attention to interventions that effectively reduce pain with pharmacological and nonpharmacological methods in preterm infants during invasive procedures. Purpose: The aim of this systematic review was to determine the efficacy of facilitated tucking as nonpharmacological pain management in preterm infants. Method:...

Neonatal care demands attention to interventions that effectively reduce pain with pharmacological and nonpharmacological methods in preterm infants during invasive procedures. The aim of this systematic review was to determine the efficacy of facilitated tucking as nonpharmacological pain management in preterm infants. Electronic searches were con...

Background & Significance: Faculty at the University of Jordan began discussing a PhD program in 2000. They held a Round Table Discussion with international colleagues at the 5th International Nursing Conference, held in Amman, in 2001. That discussion helped provide impetus to initiate a model of networking and collaboration to bring the idea to f...

Background & Significance: Starting and sustaining a quality doctoral program with the current shortage of faculty members requires creative solutions and innovative long range planning. Previously, the College has used Fulbright Scholars, Professors from the international schools that signed Memorandums of Understanding (MOUs), and limited numbers...

Background & Significance: The current age of globalization provides the impetus to promote professional interactions that facilitate both international scholarly work and faculty exchange. Therefore, a number of educational institutions and nurse researchers/educators are involved in international scholarly activities such as consultation, collabo...

Purpose:The purpose of this randomized controlled trial using a cross-over design was to examine the effectiveness of facilitated tucking during heel stick blood draws on relieving stressful responses of preterm infants in a Jordanian newborn intensive care unit (NICU ). Background:Preterm infants in NICUs are exposed to a high number of painful...

Sixteen-year-old Anna gave birth to her second child in the Salvation Army Clinic in the Ashanti Province of Ghana, having lost her first. She thanked God for safe passage for herself and for the child. “Whether I cried or shouted I was going to give birth to the baby, so there’s no need for us to cry or shout. All that I needed to do was to keep c...

Poster presentation, “Global Research Initiatives: Collaborating with International Colleagues”. Lynn Clark Callister, Inaam Khalaf, Y Katri Vehvilainen-Julkenen. American Academy of Nursing 35th Annual Meeting, Scottsdale, Arizona, November 2008

This study examines the association between intimate partner violence (IPV) and women's experience of interference with their attempts to avoid pregnancy among 353 women surveyed at reproductive health clinics throughout Jordan. Approximately 20 percent of respondents indicated that their husbands or someone else had interfered. Among those others...

The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan Ministry of Health (MOH) have identified the importance of strengthening national capacity through the integration of reproductive health (RH) services into the primary health care system. It is reported that a high percentage of Jordanian women use traditional family pl...

The objective of the study was to determine the degree of linear growth retardation of patients with vitamin D deficiency rickets at presentation and the magnitude of catch-up growth in relation to their calcium (Ca) homeostasis and hormones affecting it before and after treatment. This prospective study recorded the anthropometric data and measure...

12 The objective of the study was to determine the degree of linear growth retardation of patients with vitamin D deficiency rickets at 13 presentation and the magnitude of catch-up growth in relation to their calcium (Ca) homeostasis and hormones affecting it before and after 14 treatment. This prospective study recorded the anthropometric data an...

Purpose: This qualitative descriptive study aimed to explore Jordanian childbearing women’s perceptions of their needs for health care and the post-partum healthcare services they received. Methods: Twenty-four Jordanian childbearing women participated in the focus groups. Discussions focused on infant and maternal health concerns, access to post-p...

Aim: This descriptive study aims to assess the knowledge, perception, and practices of Jordanian nurses’ working with children in relation to child abuse and to identify the relationship between selected demographic variables and nurses’ knowledge, perception and practices. Method: A random sample of 353 nurses, involved in the provision of care fo...

The current age of globalization poses challenges as to how to promote professional interaction to further international scholarly efforts in nursing. Models of global research are defined. Global health priorities are explicated, with recommendations for the conduct of outcomes-focused research leading to the generation of cost-effective intervent...

Aim: The purpose of this descriptive study was to determine Jordanian nursing students' perception of their learning styles. Method: All nursing students enrolled in four universities offering a baccalaureate degree in nursing at the time of the research project (n = 420) were approached. A structured self-administered questionnaire (Autonomous...

Patients' satisfaction with health care services provided at the Family Medicine Clinic at Jordan University Hospital. Barghoti, F, Abu-Moghli, F & Khalaf, I. Abstract Objectives: This descriptive study aimed to: I. Determine patients’ satisfaction with the services provided at the family medicine clinic at Jordan University Hospital. 2. Identify...

The pain experiences of culturally diverse childbearing women are described based on a secondary analysis of narrative data from phenomenologic studies of the meaning of childbirth. Study participants were interviewed in the hospital after giving birth or in their homes within the first weeks after having a baby. Transcripts of interviews with chil...

An Indication of Health Awareness among Jordanian Population: Symptom Awareness and the Confirmed Medical Diagnosis Raghda Shukri; Inaam Khalaf; Adnan A Abbas This paper appears in: Medical and Biological Sciences, Dirasat Journal On Page(s): 87 - 94 Volume: 30, Issue: 2, 2003 This descriptive correlational study aimed at identifying the relations...

Jordanian Nurses’ Attitudes Towards Planning Nursing Care as Part of their Professional Role. Abu Moghli, F., and Khalaf, I. Abstract This descriptive study aims at measuring nurses’ attitudes towards planning nursing care including perceived value of planning to the individual and others, conditions influencing planning, responsibility for plann...

Thesis (Ph. D.)--New York University, 1989. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 81-88). Photocopy. s