Another achievement added to the Faculty of Nursing in a
series of joint scientific research with international universities through the
research carried out by a group of faculty members from the Faculty of Nursing
at the Applied Sciences Private University, consisting of Dr. Abedalmajeed Methqal
Shajrawi, Dr. Heba Khalil, Dr. Ghadeer Al-Dweik, and Dr. Ahmed Al-Samadi From
the American University / Madaba in partnership with Dr. Paul Slater from the
University of Ulster – Norther in Northern Ireland.
Research title:
“A Cross-Cultural Translation and
Adaptation of the Arabic Cardiac Self-Efficacy Questionnaire for Patients with
Coronary Heart Disease”
Where the
research team published the research in a magazine: International Journal of
Nursing Practice (IJNP), which is considered one of the best global and
refereed scientific journals in the application of clinical nursing practices.
The IJNP is a Scopus Q2 Journal and ISI indexed.
The research
aimed to translate a questionnaire for cardiac self-efficacy in Arabic for
patients with coronary heart disease from English to Arabic using the method
recommended by the World Health Organization and then conduct a measurement
evaluation of the Arabic version to identify the self-efficacy of patients with
coronary heart disease. As there was previously no questionnaire to measure
cardiac self-efficacy in Arabic in patients with coronary heart disease. The
results of the research showed high validity of the content and appearance of
the Arabic version of the cardiac self-efficacy questionnaire for patients with
coronary heart disease and the reliability for the three parts of the
questionnaire ranged from 0.89-0.93 Cronbach's alpha = with the total reliability
Cronbach's alpha = 0.9
The analysis of the research results for the three parts of
the questionnaire using Exploratory factor analysis revealed the following:
Factor 1 – control of symptoms represented
40% (eigenvalue 6.445) and factor loading ranged from 0.627 - .846.
Factor 2 – Maintaining functioning -
represented 17% of the total variance and had an eigenvalue of 2.651.
Factor 3 – behaviour change, represented 13% of the total variance and had an
eigenvalue of 2.139.
These results demonstrate the success of the production of a
questionnaire to measure cardiac self-efficacy in Arabic for patients with
coronary heart disease using the method recommended by the World Health
Organization and the possibility of its use also in future scientific research.
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Dr. Heba Khalil conducted a joint research between the Faculty of Nursing at Applied Sciences Private University and the University of Pittsburgh and Yale University in the United States of America.
This joined research examined in the genetic interaction between OPRM1 and COMT, which have neurotransmitter effect on pain in the human brain and their impact on pain intensity and opioid consumption post-surgery. The results of this study revealed that patients with the genotypes (Met158Met) of COMT and (AG / GG) of OPRM1 consumed the largest amount of opioid analgesics compared to the rest of the patients. Moreover, Low Pain Sensitivity haplotype (LPS, GCGG) associated with low postoperative pain sensitivity.
The results of this study were published in Biological Research for Nursing (ISI, Scopus Q1).