[Investigation of relationship between body image satisfaction and academic field of study of female students of Islamic Azad University branch of Najafabad]

Body image is conception of someone from self schema including: physical appearance, emotional reactions and situational relating body which is shaped from present and past perceptions. When a person hasn't a positive body image and considers his appearance lower than ideal society criteria, one might encounter with inconvenient feelings and outlook towards oneself like decrement in self esteem, low self confidence and even educational subsidence. Since body image can have an effective role in educational progress, therefore, in this research we have tried to investigate the relationship between body image satisfaction and academic field of study of female students. In this descriptive-correlative research 360 female students of Islamic Azad University branch of Najafabad were selected by simple sampling from various fields and were investigated by BSQ34 questionnaire. Data was analyzed by S.P.S.S software version 17 and descriptive analysis, Kruskal Wallis, Mann-Whitney U and Spearman correlation tests were used. Findings of this research showed that 34.4% of the university students had moderate-poor body image and there was a meaning relation between economic status and satisfaction from body image. Among different fields, students of physical training had the least attention to their appearance and art students had the most. Since most of the university students in this research were not satisfied with their appearance and as, paying attention to ones outward appearance can affect different aspect of life, including educational status and also regarding that universities are among the places having vital role in process of forming and improving youth problems therefore it seems that necessary teachings and training should be included in universities syllabus to improve the satisfaction of university students from their body image

[Knowledge and practice of nurses relating to annual checkups in 2009]

Annual checkups are one of the ways for getting healthy lifestyle, but it seems that most people are not aware of them or they don't want to do them. Since nurses are most responsible for teaching, coordinating and supporting this matter and because researches have shown that women are more worried about their health status, therefore it was decided to investigate the knowledge and practice of female nurses relating to annual checkups. In this descriptive research, knowledge and practice of 402 female nurses who worked at some Esfahan hospitals with researcher prepared questionnaire and checklist were investigated and findings by SPSS [ver=15] software and descriptive, correlative statistics, ANOVA, Kruskal-Wallis and Mann-Whitney-U tests were analyzed. Findings of this research showed that 69.4% of female nurses had poor knowledge, 27.1% had moderate knowledge and 3.5% had good knowledge and 41.5% of them had poor practice, 40.0% had moderate practice and 18.5% had good practice relating to annual checkups and there were significant correlation between age- work background and practice but there were no significant correlation between, age- work background and knowledge of samples [P<0.05]. Knowledge and practice of most nurses relating to annual checkups is poor and because this group must be one of the main educators, coordinators and supporters of this matter, therefore the annual teaching must be considered for them and for improving the practice of these checkups, useful ways should be introduced

[ effect of music therapy on anxiety, pain, nausea and vital signs of caesarean section clients in Dr. Shariatee hospital of Esfahan in 2006]

Most women who are going to have a caesarean section usually experience anxiety before surgery and nausea, anxiety, pain and alteration of vital signs after that. In this study, music therapy was studied as an effective technique in the reducing pain, anxiety, nausea and changes of vital signs of women under caesarean section. In this quasi-experimental study, the effect of music therapy, as independent variable, on anxiety, nausea, pain and vital signs after caesarean section was studied in the Dr. Shariatee hospital Esfahan. Sampling method was simple sampling, and subjects were randomly allocated within two groups. The majority of women that underwent caesarean section were 26-30 years in case group and 25 years or less in control group. Subjects in both groups were mostly in the second gravid and had high school graduates. The mean weight of subjects was equal among two groups. There were no significant differences between two groups regarding at the time of anesthesia and operation, while significant differences were found in the aspects of anxiety, pain, nausea and some vital signs after music therapy. This study revealed that music therapy could relieve anxiety and pain, but had no significant effect on nausea. It also showed that music therapy had some effect on reducing systolic blood pressure, while there were no differences between diastolic blood pressure and respiration of the case and control groups

Association of the background experience of nurses and their consideration for the standards of muscular injections and dressing in some selective hospitals in Esfahan

In the domain of performing care and cure affaires, one of the basic principles in most health centers is the muscle injections and dressing. As a psychomotor domain, after years and reaching the normality level of muscle injections and dressing, alterations may occur in the performance. So we attempted to investigate the relation between the background experience of the hospital staff and their consideration about the standards of muscle injections and dressing in different wards of selective hospitals in Esfahan. In this analytic cross-sectional study, data were obtained through different checklists to observe the importance of considering the standards of muscle injections and dressing, after certifying the validity and reliability. By random sampling, 38 cases of muscle injection and 31 cases of dressing were observed without notifying the practitioner. After completing the checklists, they were informed because of moral considerations; then those who agreed to take part in the research, the demographic questionnaire was also completed and obtained data were analyzed by SPSS software. Most cases were married women aged 29-31 for muscular injections and 22-30 for dressing. The nurses who did muscular injections had 10-19 years work experience and who did dressing had 1-9 years work experience. There was no significant association between the experience and considering the standards of muscle injections [NS], whereas this relation for considering the dressing standards were significant [p=0.02]. Most cases with considering the importance of standards of muscle injections and dressing did the care at medium degree [55.2% and 51.5%, respectively]. Professional experience was correlated with considering the dressing standards, while it showed no significant association with muscular injection