College's role in ethical promotion of nursing

Introduction: Because teaching code of ethics to nurses has been considered the gold standard for many nursing colleges and universities, the main goal of this article was to evaluate the effect of college of nursing in changing the attitude of nursing students to professional ethics

Method: The study was performed as sectional-descriptional on 60 students first year [first and second semester] and 60 last year students [seventh and eight semester] of nursing college of Fatemeh Zahra Shiraz university which were selected randomly. Data was gathered using a questionnaire including general level, patient rights, and endvour for professional improvement. Frequency, mean value, and t-test was used for data analyzing. Data were analyzed using Spss software [P

Results: 79 [% 65.8] of students were female and 41 [%32.4] of them were male .the average age was 21 +/- 1.7, there was not any significant difference between the viewpoints of both groups for professional behavior in general level [P=0.65], patients right [P=0.07], and professional improvement [P=0.43]

Cancer related fears in Iranian patients, a survey from south east of Iran

Introduction: Cancer is a chronic disease with an increasing incidence. Other than common complications of chronic diseases, the vague prognosis and early threat of cancers may induce tension and fears among patients. Such fears are of the main destructive aspects of cancer that make it a physically and emotionally weakening disease

Patients and methods: In this study, we evaluated 111 patients with cancer who had been treated in the specialized cancer treatment center of Zahedan. They were asked to fill a questionnaire containing 44 questions about their fears and anxieties. We categorized the fears into social, individual, sexual, and disease related groups and these groups were analyzed according to the patients' characteristics

Results: 26.1% of the patients were men and 73.9% were women with the mean ages of 45.9 and 44.9 years respectively. The majority of patients [79.3%] were married. T test analysis revealed that women experienced more social [P= 0.001] and personal fears [P= 0.015] than men. Married patients had more sexual fears than other groups [P= 0.001]. One-way ANOVA for examining the effect of educational attainment, showed that the only variable with statistically significant difference among the means was the sexual fears [F [3, 108] =3.417, p=0.020]. The patients with higher education levels had lower scores in sexual fears than other groups, meanwhile such type of the fears were more in the group of middle school education

Conclusion: Cancer is accompanied by different types of fears that affect the patients' quality of life and satisfaction with treatment. It sees that detecting these fears and trying to resolve them, may help patients to have less stress during their life with cancer

Clinical and molecular aspects of Sjogren-Larsson syndrome reported in an iranian consanguineous family with triplet affected individuals

Sjogren Larsson Syndrome [SLS; OMIM: 270200] is an autosomal recessive neurocutaneous disorder characterized by mental retardation, congenital ichthyosis and spastic paraplegia. SLS is caused by mutations in aldehyde dehydrogenase 3A2 isoform 2 [ALDH3A2], which encodes fatty aldehyde dehydrogenase [FALDH]. This enzyme metabolizes the NAD-dependent oxidation of long chain aldehyde derived from lipid metabolism. Up to now, more than 72 mutations have been reported in SLS patients. DNA was extracted from peripheral blood of all the five patients, one healthy sibling and their parents using standard procedures. SNP genotyping was performed using the GeneChip [registered sign]. Multipoint linkage analyses and non-parametric linkage analysis was performed too. Results: Here, we report an interesting family with five affected individuals with a novel splice site mutation [c.1107+1delGTA] in ALDH3A2. In absence of capability to measure FALDH activity in Iran, DNA sequencing of the ALDH3A2 gene could lead to the identification of causative mutation and confirm the diagnosis

[Photocatalytic degradation of phenol in aqueous solutions by Fe[III]-doped TiO2/UV process]

Phenol and phenolic compounds are widely used in industry and daily liFe, and are of high interest due to stability in the environment, dissolution ability in water and health problems. In this regard, phenol removal from water is of high importance. The purpose of this study was to investigate the efficiency of photodegradation process for removal of phenol from aqueous system by use of Fe-doped TiO[2] nanoparticles prepared by sol-gel method. Phenol concentrations of 5, 10, 50 and 100 mg/L were prepared and exposed to UV and Fe-doped TiO[2], separately and simultaneously. Also the effect of initial phenol concentration, Fe-doped TiO[2] loading and pH were studied. Various doses of photocatalist investigated for Fe- doped TiO[2] were 0.25, 0.5 and 1 g/L. pH was studied at three ranges, acidic [pH=3], neutral [pH=7] and alkaline [pH=11]. Maximum degradation was obtained at acidic pH, 0.5 g/L of Fe-doped TiO[2] for all of phenol concentrations. With increasing initial concentration of phenol, photocatalytic degradation decreased. In comparison with Fe-doped TiO[2]/UV process, efficiency of UV radiation alone was low in phenol degradation [% 64.5 at 100 mg/l of phenol concentration]. Also the amount of phenol adsorbed on the Fe-doped TiO[2] was negligible at dark conditions. Results of this study showed that Fe[III]- doped TiO[2] nanoparticles had an important effect on photocatalytic degradation of high initial phenol concentration when Fe[III]-doped TiO[2]/ UV process applied