The impact of culture on AIDS nurses in Iran

Hoda Fotovvat, Mohammad Zahedi Asl

Tabatabayi University, Dehkadeh-ye-Olympic, Tehrān, Iran.

DOI: 10.4236/ojn.2013.38A010                

Abstract

AIDS is one of the medical professional’s or young person ventures in third world countries like Iran. The growth of AIDS victims in the recent years has made a lot of global worries about cure process and other related issues to HIV problems in these countries. One of the effective groups in the study of AIDS patients is nurses who are in direct contact with patients. Our investigation led to study two variables “consciousness” and “vision” of nurses working in Imam Khomeini hospital of Tehran University of Medical Sciences. Based on the results we achieved that nurses have a low medium degree in the variables studied which is as a result of poor and low effective trainings. In addition to this as a consequence of wrong culture in Iran about AIDS patients or even people in contact with them, nurses have been in a great pressure as they might be in danger of disease transmission. This negative trend has caused a great anxiety about the real condition of AID patients in Iran and their cure process.

Keywords

AIDS; Nurses; Culture; Iran; Patients

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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