[Correlation of spiritual intelligence with some of demographic and educational factors among the students of Golestan university of medical sciences]

Spiritual intelligence offer adaptation, internal and external integrity, environmental harmony and problem solving. The medical students are potential workforce of future in medical and caring areas; hence it is essential to assess the spiritual intelligence in this group of academics to improve the quality of clinical care. The aim of the study was to investigate correlation of spiritual intelligence with some of demographic and educational factors among the students of Golestan University of Medical Sciences. This descriptive correlational study was conducted in 2011 on 282 medical and paramedical students of the university who entered the study through simple random sampling. The data gathered by a demographic questionnaire and "Spiritual Intelligence Questionnaire" that cover four main domains "general thoughts and beliefs", "ability of dealing with problems", "spiritual traits", "self- awareness and compassion". The validity of questionnaire was confirmed with criterion- related validity and the reliability of questionnaire was obtained with alpha Cronbach coefficient of 0.85. The data was analyzed with SPSS /16 using descriptive and analytical statistical tests. [P<0.05] The mean age of the participants was 20.17 +/- 1.70 year old and 76 percent of them were female. The average spiritual intelligence score from 5 likert score in four domains was 106.65 +/- 13.93 from 222. The mean and standard deviation of each four domain respectively; in "general thoughts and beliefs" was 2.13 +/- 0.56, in "ability of dealing with problems" was 2.90 +/- 0.62, in "spiritual traits" had value of 2.20 +/- 0.45 and finally in "self-awareness and compassion" standard deviation was 2.59 +/- 0.64. Although the average spiritual intelligence score in male students [2.58 +/- 0.36] was slightly higher than the one in female students [2.51 +/- 0.28], however this was not statistically significant. There was also no significant correlation between age, sex, marital status, ethnicity, major of study and grade point average with spiritual intelligence. The mean average of spiritual intelligence in "ability of dealing with problems" domain was higher than other domains. The study draws our attention to issue of spiritual intelligence, which is a fundamental concept in delivering comprehensive care

[Collaboration coefficient of researchers of Tehran university of medical sciences in international publications]

Introduction: Collaboration between researchers at domestic and international level is an extensive form of scientific collaboration emphasizing the importance and benefits of collaborative research. This study was aimed at investigating the rate of collaboration between researchers in Tehran University of Medical Sciences with their counterparts in other countries and institutions in the Web of Science publications

Methods: This was a survey using scientometrics indicators. The instrument of the study was the Web of Science in which the scientific products of Tehran University of Medical Sciences including 5781 records were investigated between 2006 and 2010.To determine the collaboration between researchers, collaboration coefficient formula was used

Results: The authors' collaboration coefficient mean was 0.64 showing their high interest in collaborative research. Investigation into scientific products showed that the rate of scientific collaboration was lower at the international level [22%] than the domestic level. The results showed that the researchers in Tehran University of Medical Sciences had scientific collaboration with 69 countries. The lowest annual growth rate [3.7] was related to international collaboration. Main partners of Tehran University of Medical Sciences were the USA, UK, and Canada, respectively. Based on the number of co-authors, the highest collaboration rate belonged to the documents with five to eight authors. This rate increased from 33% in 2006 to 45% in 2010

Conclusion: The findings indicated that co-authorship and collaboration in the period studied is on the rise for Tehran University of Medical Sciences suggesting researchers' interest in scientific collaboration

[Physicians' perception about the role of clinical librarianship at Alzahra medical center]

Introduction: With the advent of information technology and expansion of medical resources, physicians face problems in search and retrieval of medical information. A need for a medical liberian to assist them to increase their skills and hence improve the clinical services rendered to patients is greatly felt. The purpose of the study was to identify and determine physicians' viewpoints concerning the medical Liberians role in providing the service at Alzahra Medical center

Method: This survey was an analytical, applied and cross sectional study in which data were collected by means of a questionnaire. The population were 212 doctors in Alzahra Hospital. 137 physicians were randomly selected on the basis of Morgan Table. Content validity was determined by the experts, and reliability of the questionnaire were measured by chronbach's alpha [Cronbach Alpha was 0.74]. Finally data were analyzed by SPSS18, using descriptive and inferential statistics [nonparametric tests using Man-Whithney, one-way analysis of variance,Kolmogorov - Smirnov, Kendall correlation coefficients]

Results: 60.3% of the participants mentioned lack of time as an obstacle in accessing the new information. 52.5 % acknowledged the need to help them search the information. There was no significant difference between male and female participants and work experience in regards with the need to medical librarians in Al Zahra Hospital. There was no significant difference between their familiarities with databases with need to the need to medical librarians in Al Zahra Hospital

Conclusion: On the basis of the findings of the study, trained medical liberians to provide assistance in the search of medical sources is needed as physicians do not have sufficient time to meet their needs to information

[Evaluation of the quality of library services from the viewpoints of users and librarians using libQual scale at Tehran University of Medical Sciences]

Nowadays, LibQual scale as a new tool, measures expectations more efficiently than the traditional ones. The present study aims to compare the viewpoints of students and librarians at Tehran University of Medical Sciences to determine the quality of library services with LibQual model. The present study was an analytical survey. Method. LibQual questionnaire was used for data collection. In this study 231 users and 30 were selected through simple random sampling of the questionnaire was measured by Cranach's Alpha test was used to ensure the reliability of the data gathering tool. Mann-Whitney and Wilcoxon tests were used. The results showed that the users evaluate the current quality of services lower than what the librarians did. This difference of opinion is much more drastic when evaluating the information control subscale. Service superiority gap was estimated to be 2.8 for the overall library services and the said libraries fall fairly short of providing users with the desired level of services. From the users' point of view, the three subscales of LibQual do not have an equal effect on the quality of the provided services whereas the librarians disagree with an equal effectiveness of the subscales. The librarians have a correct understanding of the users' expectations and the gap between the users' expectations and the librarians' perceptions of their needs and demands was very small [0.18]. This study showed that LibQual as a model of evaluating the quality of services could help in providing information that facilitates the improvement of planned services at Tehran University of Medical Scien ces libraries. By providing the necessary facilities and services to users, librarians can offer services to users with known expectations and needs. Therefore, if there are shortcomings in the quality of services, it is not because librarians are unaware of the users' needs, but rather lack of necessary facilities might be the reason

[ survey of knowledge production of Iranian researchers on AIDS: evidence from the web of science database]

The main purpose of this study was to investigate the knowledge productions of Iranian researchers who had published papers on AIDS in journals and sources with impact factor indexed in the Web of Science between 2000 and 2010. The amount of scientific publications by Iranian researchers on AIDS in the Web of Science was studied with scientometric methods. 336 documents with at least one author affiliated to Iranian organizations were identified. The process of science production of Iranian researchers enjoyed an increasing annual growth rate of 30%. Iranian researchers had scientific collaboration with 22 international authors dominated by American authors. Tehran University of Medical Sciences contributed to almost one fifth of the scientific productions among national organizations. Most research studies conducted by Iranian researchers on AIDS were listed under the category of infectious diseases. 35% of the journals in which Iranian researchers published their papers were American journals. However, the journal, Hepatitis Monthly, published the highest number of papers by Iranian researchers. Iran's share of journal publications enjoyed an upward trend internationally, and in this regard, Iranian researchers have remarkable contribution to international joint venture articles

assessment of mother friendly in maternity services in Egypt

The aim of the study was to assess mother friendly practices and satisfaction of mothers with services they received in maternity facilities. The study was conducted in 5 hospitals with 1145 mothers and 120 staff who attend labor. Overall findings revealed that mothers were not allowed to have preferred family companion at birth, non-pharmacological pain relief methods were ho encouraged and mothers were not allowed to assume position of her choice at birth. This reflected on mothers1 dissatisfaction with the quality of services. It is concluded that there is a need to encourage mother friendly practices at birth

[Study of mental health and its relation with quality of life in addicts]

Because of the progressive nature of addiction in all aspects of life, it influences the health of society individuals and has bad effects on psychological, physical, social, emotional, spiritual and cognitive health. In order to investigate mental health and the quality of life of addicts referring to addiction centers in Golestan province, this research was done. A total of 322 patients were selected from the addiction census centers of the province during 2009 and studied in a descriptive cross-sectional analysis. The data included a questionnaire about demographic characteristics and two questionnaires contained the mental health [MHC] and the quality of life [SF17] variables. Of the total, 52 percent reported their mental health to be somewhat favorable and 17 percent reported favorable. On the other hand, 53 percent reported somewhat favorable quality of life and 8 percent had a desirable quality of life. There was significant relationship between mental health and quality of life. Mental health was significantly related to sex and type of material consumption, while quality of life was significantly related to job and type of material consumed. Many addicts can't give up addiction and repeatedly refer to centers. But care team members can identify common characteristics, personality traits and support systems for promoting mental health and the quality of addict's life which facilitate prevention, treatment and rehabilitation

[Evaluation of the knowledge of rural high school students in Yazd about drugs]

Considering high prevalence of addiction, the age range of drug abuse and availability of new synthetic drugs, evaluation of knowledge of adolescents about drugs would be a priority in research. In this descriptive cross-sectional study, 517 rural high school students were asked to complete a questionnaire and through SPSS software version 13, collected data was analyzed by chi-square and analysis of variance tests. 7.1% of rural families with at least one boy in high school had an addict family member. 70.2% of high school students had had a contact with an addict and 42.5% knew an adolescent addict. Also, 17.5% had been offered drugs and 37.9% of high school students claimed that there was at least one addict in their family or relations. Considering the frequency of addiction in families and rate of invitation to drug abuse in students, there is a high risk of increment of addiction in high schools and therefore real and urgent need to do an intervention

[ prevalence and relationship work factors and demographic with lower limb varicose veins in nurses]

Lower limb varicose Veins commonly occurs in the general population. The physical conditions during the work and conditions of employment are important risk factors that induced prevalence varicose veins are increased. For instance prolong standing posture and physical state is irreversible in the nursing profession. Thus the purpose of the present study was to determine the Prevalence and relationship work factors and demographic with lower limb varicose veins in Nurses. In the cross-sectional study was carried out in the 203 nurses in Amol hospital. It was done with the content of the subjects. After filling out the questionnaires by the subjects, they were examined based on CEAP classification system. The gather information was done by the use of Chi-Square, exact fisher and independent sample T test. A probably level of P<0.05 was accepted as statistically significant. 145 nurses were female and age average was 34.2 years; 40.9 of them were over weighted. Prevalence of Varicose vein was 73.9%. There was a significant relationship between varicose vein and female gender [P=0.03], exercise [p=0.001], BMI [P=0.003], family history [P=0.01], regular bowel movement [p=0.005], age [P=0.04], weight [P<0.0001], over time work [P=0.001], sitting [P=0.01] and standing posture at workplace [P<0.00l]. Our results show a high prevalence varicose vein of the lower limbs in the nurses of Amol hospital. This disorder causes the physical problems and excess morbidity and it can affected on professional nurses' practices, so risk factor control and preventing of these factors are important