[Survey the knowledge attitude and practice on papsmear in nurses and midwives]

Despite the easy of detection of cervical cancers in the pre-cancer stage, it is still one of the most common cancers in Iran and the world. The responsibility of womens education about this safe and unexpositive screening test is for nurses and midwives. Survey the knowledge, attitude and practice on Popsmear in nurses and midwifes in Alzahra Maternity Hospital. In this cross-sectional study, 80 Nurses and midwives of Alzahra maternity Hospital were studied. Data collection tool was a questionnaire designed in 5 section to determine their knowledge, attitude and practice. Chi- square, Mann- Whitney - U, Fishers exact test, Kruskal-Wallis and T - student test SPSS ver14 were used for statical analysis. Knowledge of 91.3% of participations was scored as "Good" and it was significantly different between nurses and midwives. 83.8% of them has "positive" attitude toward the test. There was no significant relationship between attitude, age, duration of occupation and marital status of two groups. Nurses and midwives were matched in terms of age; marital status and duration of occupation.42/9% were remarked to have [good] practice. With regard to Knowledge role of nurses and midwives in performing papsmear screening test it is necessary to improvement their education and compare their attitude and practice

Survey the frequency of depression in the last third months of pregnancy

Women are vulnerable to mood changes during pregnancy and the postpartum period. According to the current epidemiologic studies, prevalence of prenatal depression varies widely. Estimate the prevalence of depression during the third trimester of pregnancy in women who referred to alzahra hospital in rasht-winter 2007. We studied 415 randomly-selected individuals out of 900 obstetrical women in their third trimester of pregnancy, at the prenatal clinic of Alzahra hospital in Winter 2007.A Beck Depression Inventory [BDI] and a pre-determined form containing some demographic variables were applied to measure the variables of this study. 15 subjects [due to incomplete responses] were excluded from our study. Among 400 obstetrical women participated in this study, 100 women [25%] were suffered from different degrees of depression. There were significant statistical differences between depression and education [p=0.018], occupation [p=0.039] and gravidity [p=0.033]. There were no significant statistical differences between depression and socioeconomic level and age of participants. In our study, the prevalence of depression was similar to some of the other studies, also our findings about the association of depression and education, occupation and gravidity were similar to the other studies but our findings about the association of depression and socioeconomic level and age of the participants were different from the other studies. Use of structural psychiatric interview and analytical methods for determination of the prevalence of prenatal depressive disorder and its relationship with studied variables were recommended