assessment of the mental health condition of the nursing personnel and the factors affecting it

Mental health disorders are common problems that occur among the hospital staff like nurses at a high rate. It causes multiple mental and social problems for the patients in long term. The aim of this study is to determine the level of mental health in the nursing staff and the factors affecting it. This is a descriptive and analytical research. This is a cross-sectional study in which all the nursing staff [92 cases] of one hospital were studied. Data was collected by a demographic questionnaire and SCL-90 test and then it was analyzed. Data was analyzed by descriptive statistics, t-test and ANOVA. Results showed that 81.1% of the nurses were healthy and 18.9% of them were exposed to mental disorders. The most common disorders were: 7.3% somatic disorders, 5.8% Paranoid ideation and%5 Anxiety. According to these findings, hospital managers must pay more attention to the mental health of their nursing personnel to take steps toward improving the quality of health care

[Infant under 1-59 month mortality causes in Zabol]

Infant less than five years mortality is one of developing health index in countries. In recent years under five years mortality rates has been decreased in our country but still is higher than the developed countries. Thus we prompted to investigate some causes in infant under 1-59 month mortality during 2006. This is a descriptive study which conducted during 2006.In this study 93 cases were selected using census sampling. Data collected by Infant mortality registering checklists that confirmed by Health and treatment service ministry of Iran. These checklists filled by educated critics' personnel. Researcher et al exploited data by analysis in registered checklists then converted data to digital form and analyzed by SPSS software. Finding showed that 93 deaths occurred. The most frequency of them related to 1-12 months age [57%] that 37% of cases were female and 63% of them were male. Majority causes from death is collisions and accidents [27%]. Mortality from respiratory diseases was 18/3 percent and gastrointestinal diseases 15/2 percent. Majority failure in treatment causes is Insensibility in parent due to treatment [76%] and insistence of parent to discharge their infant from hospital because they were so impecunious to paid treatment costs [12%]. Our finding showed that Infant mortality rate in this city was higher than country rate which has various reasons that one of these reasons was rise in collisions rate. Thus it is essential to perform implementations to reduce collisions rate as well as it essential to perform effective implementation for maternal and newborn care, infant and newborn nutrition's, vaccination