Omar A Al-khawaldeh

Mutah University · Faculty of nursing

Vaccines are effective measures that can mitigate the high burden of diseases. However, vaccine refusal poses serious challenges for achieving coverage for population immunity. With the availability of coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) vaccines, limited information is available about the university students' acceptability and attitudes toward COV...

Background: Unrelieved postoperative pain contributes to soaring medical costs and poor quality of life. Whilst much has been written about postoperative pain prevalence in the literature, few empirical studies have explored pain care in Middle Eastern countries. Aims: This study aimed to determine pain prevalence, its characteristics, beliefs a...

Background Disordered eating attitudes and behaviours are linked to poor physical and psychological outcomes. Aim To examine the individual, psychological, and socio‐cultural factors associated with disordered eating attitudes among Jordanian adolescents. Methods A stratified sampling method was used to select school students aged 15 to 18 years...

Opioids such as morphine are effective analgesics and have been recognized worldwide for many years; yet, they are underutilized. The study explores the attitudes and experiences relating to opioids, in general, and morphine, in particular, among Jordanian surgical nurses. The Opioids Attitudes Scale was used. A total of 123 questionnaires were dis...

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to measure nurses' knowledge, attitudes, and barriers regarding pain management (PM) of postoperative patients in Jordan. Design: A descriptive survey research design was used. Methods: This descriptive study adopted a modified version of the "Knowledge and Attitudes Survey Regarding Pain" tool, administe...

Background: The nursing profession is a combination of theory and practical skill, and nurses are required to generate and develop knowledge through implementing research into clinical practice. Considerable number of barriers could hind implementing research findings into practice. Barriers to research utilisation are not identified in the Jordani...

Information regarding current status of handwashing knowledge, beliefs, attitudes and compliance with handwashing practice in nursing students in Jordan is limited. This study aims to explore handwashing knowledge, beliefs, attitudes, and self-reported compliance and to examine significant variables predicting compliance with handwashing practice a...

Aims The primary aim of this study was to evaluate the impact of pharmaceutical care interventions on glycemic control and other health-related clinical outcomes in patients with type 2 diabetes patients in Jordan. Methods A randomized controlled clinical trial was conducted on 106 patients with uncontrolled type 2 diabetes seeking care in the dia...

Poor adherence to treatment can have negative effects on outcomes and heath care cost. However, little is known about the factors that impact adherence to deferasirox chelation therapy. The aims of this study were to identify rates and predictors of non-adherence to medical regimen among thalassemia major adolescents on deferasirox oral chelation t...

Background Breast cancer, as a leading cause of mortality, is responsible for 12.5% of all deaths in Jordan.Objectives The aim of this study was to describe Jordanian women's personal practices and perceptions of breast cancer screening tests.MethodsA quantitative cross-sectional survey using a proportionate stratified sample of 331 women was condu...

Background: Health-promoting lifestyles of university students are strongly related to their current and subsequent health status. Low rates of health-promoting lifestyles among university students are still reported in literature. However, few studies in Jordan have examined health-promoting behaviors among university students. Objectives: This st...

The aims of this study were to assess level of awareness about diabetes and the level of adoption of diabetes risk behaviors among adult attending primary healthcare centers. A cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted using a self-administrated questionnaire. In addition to demographic information, the questionnaire contained questions on di...

The objective was to evaluate the relationships between diabetes management self-efficacy and diabetes self-management behaviors and glycemic control. A cross-sectional design was used. A convenience sample of 223 subjects with type 2 diabetes, ≥25 years old, who sought care at the National Diabetes Center in Amman, Jordan, was enrolled. A structur...