study of training influence on the knowledge of the female students of Shiraz University dormitories about breast and cervix cancer screening examinations

The effect of screening and early diagnosis of the breast and cervix cancer on increasing the survival and life quality of patients has been proven. The awareness of the young women of screening examination for such cancers is very helpful on early diagnosis and good prognosis. This study has been carried out to determine the effect of training the female students on breast and cervix cancer screening examinations in Shiraz [medical and non-medical sciences] universities dormitory. This interventional case-control study has been done on 400 students. Simple random sampling was applied for the selection of the dormitory female students. The intervention tool was an educational pamphlet. Data was collected by a questionnaire before and after the intervention, data was analyzed by descriptive statistics, t-test and Chi-suare with confidence interval of 95%. The mean point of controls was 10.54 in pre-test and 11.50 in post-test. This was not statistically significant [P=0.12]. The mean point of cases was 8.96 in pre-test and increased to 13.96 in post-test. This was statistically significant [P<0.001]. Before and after intervention, medical students had more knowledge than others. Non-medical students had acquired much more information from the pamphlet [58.9%]. The educational effect of the pamphlet on the student's knowledge has been observed. Thus, the expansion of medical training to target groups, especially non-medical students is recommended. It is proposed that health care managers apply this simple tool to expand the community health behavior

[Evaluation of efficacy of acupuncture on treatment of tinnitus resistance]

Tinnitus is defined as the perception of sound in the absence of any appropriate external stimulation. About 1-2% of the population are severely disturbed by tinnitus and it may disrupt daily activities and sleep. Several treatments are applied for this disorder and one of these treatments is acupuncture. The aim of this study was to finding scientific evidence for efficacy of acupuncture on this disorder that is resistance to conventional treatment modalities. This study is a clinical trial. In this study, 50 patients with resistance tinnitus to conventional treatment who referred to ENT ward of Emam Khomeini university hospital, Ahvaz, were chosen and divided to two groups [each 25 cases]. The first group was used as treatment group [with acupuncture] and the other control group. Tinnitus Handicap Inventory questioners were completed for both groups before and after the allocated treatment period. All of the 25 treatment group cases underwent daily treatment for 15 secessions of 30 minutes each. The reasults analysis with SPSS software. In case and control groups, the males were 56%, 52% and the females were 44%, 48%. The mean period of disorder in case and control groups were 5.8 and 5.6 years respectively. The results of THI were according to assessment quantity and quality. In case group, there had significant difference before and after treatment [P=0.03]. Also, the case group after treatment and group control had significant difference [P=0.02]. According to this finding, it is thought, the acupuncture is useful for treatment of tinnitus, especially in this condition that there is no proven treatment for it. More studies are necessary to find the better management methods