[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

[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