[Religious attitude of students of Mazandaran university of medical sciences in 2006-2007]

Available evidence shows that religious attitude have noticeable effects on psychological aspects of human life. The purpose of this study was to determine the present situation of religious attitude of Students of Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences. Student's attitude towards theoretical basis of Islam and Some other subsidiary rules of religion and moral values were studied in this investigation. In this research descriptive field study on all the students of the university, stratified sampling method was employed and 384 students were recruited. A questionnaire consisting of 38 questions was used to collect the data. Attitude rates were quantified on the scale of -5 to +5. The mean rates of attitude of associated to art students [2.53 +/- 1.63] and B.S.C students [3.06 +/- 1.45] were statistically significant [p<0.01].Likewise, the mean rate of attitude of male and female students [2.94 +/- 1.7] and [2.97 +/- 1.4] were statistically significant [p<0.01].The attitude rate of the majority of students was between 2.5 to 4.5 [s. p 1.63]. The top mark of 4.5 was gained by 57% of the students. The students have positive religious attitude. The lack of adequate religious practice among the subjects must not be interpreted as the low religious attitude. However it is necessary to study other factor that affects students practice

[ case of priapism following atypical anyipsychotic drugs]

Priapism is a rare but serious side effect of psychotropic drugs with incidence of 15-26%. Approximately all of the atypical antipsychotic drugs are reported with this complication. In this report a 24-years old man with multiple delusions which was treated with risperidone [6mg], was affected by priapism after two months. After drug dose reduction and finally discontinuation, olanzapine [5mg] was started. Only one dose of this drug causes recurrence of priapism. Therefore this drug was discontinued also. After clozapine starting [150mg],priapism was induced. Therefore it is necessary for physicians whom prescribe serotonin-dopamin antagonist drugs must consider this rare but serious side effect