[Relation between social support and coping with stress in nurses in psychiatric ward]

Stress is the most common cause of mental and physical problems in employers. Nurses experience high level of stresses due to the nature of their job. Stress coping strategies effect on reaction against stresses. Social support has protective and effective role on stress coping strategies. Detect the relation between coping with stress and social support in the nurses who worked in psychiatric ward. This descriptive analytic study was done on 47 nurses of the psychiatric wards of Isfahan training hospitals. The demographic data checklist and stress coping strategies and Saratoz social support questionnaire were filled. Statistical methods such as t-student, Spearmen-Pearson correlation were used to analyze data. The mean age of the studied persons was 39.9 years old and the mean score of social support of them was 10.59 +/- 2.24. There was a reverse and significant relation between the social support and the age and duration of service, while there was a direct and significant relation between the social support and the education. There was a significant relation between sex and social support [more in singles] too. There was a direct relation between the social support and the ways of coping with stress [social-emotional support], a reverse and significant relation between social support and the reception and hopeful through. If there is more social support, increased using effective coping strategies and reduced using ineffective coping strategies. Considering the importance of the social support in high stress jobs such as nursing to increase the person's capacity against stress, increase social support by improving administrative relations and social security for the nurse personnel could be useful

[Relationship between satisfaction and expectation with self-esteem and self-concept in patients using complete denture]

Denture acceptance as a complex process is dependent not only on ridge morphology, theoretical and practical skills of dentist, but on many psychologic factors which need to be considered seriously. The aim of this study was to determine the relationship between complete denture satisfaction and expectation with patient's self-esteem and self-concept. This descriptive-analytical study was undertaken on 52 patients [28 male and 24 female] referred to the prosthodontic department of Khorasgan Azad University. The mean age was 53.4 with the range of 35-70 years. The personality variables were measured using two standard psychological tests [Rosenberg and California tests]. Before and after full denture delivery, patients completed the denture expectation questionnaires. After using new dentures for 3 months, the patients" satisfaction was evaluated by related questionnaires. T-student, T-paired and Pearson coefficient tests were used for data analysis. There was no significant relationship between expectation and self-concept likewise between self-esteem and satisfaction [p= 0.42, 0.18]. A moderate relationship was found between self-esteem and expectation [p=0.05], while a significant relationship was obtained between self-concept and satisfaction [p=0.01]. According to this study, it was revealed that complete denture treatment did not have any significant effect on patients' personality variables, but there was a significant relation between patients' self-esteem and complete denture satisfaction. Also patients with high self-esteem scores showed better expectations with their dentures

effect of health education based on health belief model on preventive actions of smoking in grade one, middle school students

World health organization has proclaimed the prevalence of smoking among 15 years old European region students, more than 24 percent. The cigarette smoking indicator in our country among over 15 years old individuals is 11.9 percent and in the province under survey is 15.6 percent. This research has been performed in order to study the effect of health education program based on health belief model [H.B.M] on preventive actions of smoking in middle school students. This is a quasi-experimental study, done on 248 students of grade one in middle schools of Boukan city [119 boys and 129 girls] that were randomly divided into experimental and control groups. Data collection tool was a questionnaire including 77 questions based on health belief model [perceived susceptibility, perceived severity, perceived benefits and perceived barriers to smoking, and cues to action] and preventive actions of smoking. After data collection in the first stage, action was taken with regard to educational intervention and then in the second stage [after the intervention], data was collected again. Data was analyzed using T test. Results showed that the mean score of all parts of health belief model in experimental group [except for perceived barriers] after educational intervention compared to before intervention was increased significantly and also the mean score of all parts of HBM after intervention was significantly increased in experimental group compared to control group. The results of this survey show that by increasing the score of health belief model parts; including, perceived susceptibility, perceived severity and perceived benefits, adopting preventive actions of smoking also increases. Therefore, the results of this survey confirm the efficiency of health belief model in adopting preventive actions of smoking

[He effects of erythropoietin in the management of anemia of chronic renal failure in patients on hemodialysis]

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the therapeutic and side effects of erythropoietin in themanagement of anemia in chronic renal failure. In this study, 60 patients were given Erythropoietinsubcutaneously three times/week for 2 months.Mean hemoglobin of patients was recorded before beginning Erythropoietin and also one weeks, onemonth and two months after treatment.Mean hemoglobin value before treatment was 7.6 g/dl that increased to 9.08g/dl 2 months later.Hemoglobin levels were not dependent on the age and sex of the patient, but there was a meaningful differencebetween diabetics and nondiabetics.The side effects of Erythropoietin in this study in order of frequency were as follows: Hypertension,A.V fistula thrombosis, allergy and seizure