[Examining the motivational power of occupational therapy profession among occupational therapist in Fars providence in 1390]

Occupational Therapy [OT] as a holistic profession considers all aspects of a disease and leads the patients towards independent daily activities by providing appropriate treatment techniques. Considering the importance of this major in the health sector, it is required that the occupational and educational planners examine the intrinsic factors affecting the motivation of the occupational therapists. The purpose of this study was to determine the job motivation among occupational therapist of Pars province based on Motivating Potential Score [MPS], so that, the job dimension and finally the motivational power of this profession should be examined. This cross-sectional study was conducted in 1390. The statistical population includes all occupational therapist [41 people] of Pars province. Data collection tool was the valid questionnaire of Job Characteristics Model [JCM] adopted from John Wagner. Pearson correlation coefficient was used. To examine the reliability of questionnaire the Cronbach's alpha coefficient was used. In order to determine the validity of it, the Content validity was used. There was no significant relationship between demographic variables and the motivational power [p>0.05]. The mean scores was 2.73 +/- 0.16 for Skill Variety, 2.04 +/- 0.15 for Task Identity, 2.60 +/- 0.14 for Task Significance, 2.82 +/- 0.16 for Autonomy, 2.43 +/- 0,12 for Feedback and the mean score of OT motivational power was 19.21 +/- 15.49. In this study the motivational power of OT profession was low. Based on MPS, The structure of OT does not provide intrinsic motivation for its practitioners

Monitoring of mandelic acid as a biomarker of environmental and occupational exposures to styrene

Styrene is an important constituent of widely used organic solvents in industries for production of various synthetic materials. The use of solid-phase extraction [SPE] has grown and is a fertile technique of sample preparation as it provides better results than those produced by liquidliquid extraction. In this study, SPE has been optimized, regarding sample pH, sample concentration, sample flow rate, elution solvent, washing solvent, sample volume, elution volume, and sorbent mass. Through experimental evaluation, a strong anion exchange silica cartridge has been found successful in simplifying sample preparation. The present approach proved that, mandelic acid, as a urinary metabolite of styrene, could be retained on solid phase based on specific interaction. Further study was employed 10% acetic acid to extract the analyte from spiked urine and gave a clean sample. In this study, a high performance liquid chromatography, using reverse-phase column was used. The isocratic run was done at a constant flow rate of 0.85 ml/min, the mobile phase was water/methanol/acetic acid and an ultra violate detector was used, setting at 225 nm. At the developed conditions the extraction recovery was exceeded 98%. The factors were evaluated statically and also validated with three different pools of spiked urine samples and showed a good reproducibility over six consecutive days as well as six within-day experiments