فهرست مطالب aghil mollaei

Studies have shown that the mental health status of medical students is more at risk compared to the general population. There are several factors associated with mental health status. One of the related factors seems to be the meaning of life. Therefore, this study was conducted to investigate the relationship between meaning of life and mental health status in students of Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences.

This study is descriptive-analytical and was performed in Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences with a sample size of 343. Samples were collected by simple accessible sampling method. Data collection tools included standard questionnaire of meaning of life and short form of mental health questionnaire. Data were analyzed using SPSS software version 26. Descriptive and analytical statistics were also used for analysis. In the present study, all ethical considerations were observed and the authors reported no conflict of interest.

343 students participated in this study, out of whom 147 were male and 195 were female. According to the findings, the items of presence of meaning and search for meaning in life have a significant inverse relationship with anxiety, stress, depression and the total score of mental health status (P<0.01).

Considering the importance of the meaning of life in the mental health status of students, more importance should be given to psychotherapy systems based on the concept of meaning.

The outbreak of coronavirus and its subsequent conditions have affected the mental health of students. One of the variables related to mental health is “meaning in life.” It enables students to endure sorrows and hardships to survive extremely difficult living conditions. Meaning in life is also inversely related to suicide and mental disorders. In this study, we intend to assess the meaning of life among students of Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran City, Iran.

In this cross-sectional study, 208 students participated. We used an internet-based data collection method between September 12 and September 24, 2021, to collect the study data. The data collection tool was a valid and reliable questionnaire concerning meaning in life. The obtained data were analyzed using descriptive (frequency, mean, standard deviation) and inferential (Fisher exact-test, independent t-test, and 1-way analysis of variance) statistics.

Among the samples, there were 146 females (70.2%). The Mean±SD age of the participants was 21.50±2.74 years. The results showed that nearly 95% of students had neither meaning in life nor were looking for a meaning that would give value to their lives.

The results of this study indicate the catastrophe that prevails among students. When students have no meaning in life and do not look for meaning, they are highly vulnerable to psychological injuries. This condition is the worst psychological state a person can experience, which could lead to a feeling of depression and higher suicide risk. Health policymakers need to think about resolving the lack of “meaning in life” among students as soon as possible.

High workload, insufficient resources, and many stressors in the workplace have led to the imposition of physical and psychological pressures on nurses, which exposes them to death anxiety (DA). This systematic review aimed to assess the DA and factors associated with its in nurses during the COVID-19 pandemic.

An extensive search was conducted on Scopus, PubMed, Web of Science, Iranmedex, and Scientific Information Database (SID) databases via keywords such asincluding "Death", "Death Anxiety", "Nurses", and "COVID-19", from December 2019 to November 10, 2021.

818 nurses were enrolled in four papers. The mean age and work experience of nurses Nurses’ mean age and work experiences were 31.21 (SD=5.43) and 7.60 (SD=6.73) years, respectively. The mean DA of nurses during the COVID-19 pandemic was 7.30 (SD=2.23). Also, 31.05% of nurses had a high level of DADA level during the COVID-19 pandemic. Age, sex, work experience, working hours per week, childbearing, several patients needing end‑of‑life care, direct participation in resuscitation operations, cases of direct participation in resuscitation operations, cases of patient death, depression, mental health status, and life satisfaction were influential factors in DA nurses during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Thus, nursing policymakers should pay special attention to these factors related to the use of nurses' health maintenance and promotion programs to increase the quality of nursing care for COVID-19 patients. Also, it is recommended that psychological and communication support be provided to nurses during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The implementation of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) has increased in recent decades. Due to the positive effects of CAM interventions, 5 to 74.8% of people use these treatments worldwide. However, implementing CAM-related clinical trials is associated with challenging issues. Failure to address these challenges can lead to poor quality of studies, publication of non-scientific findings, and ultimately disregard for human rights and ethics. This review aims to comprehensively review the literature focusing on methodological and ethical challenges for implementing CAM-related clinical trials.

This review of reviews was conducted via international databases, including PubMed/MEDLINE, Web of Science, and Scopus using keywords extracted from medical subject headings such as “Methods”, “Methodological Study”, “Methodological Studies”, “Ethics”, “Complementary Therapies”, “Complementary Medicine”, “Alternative Medicine”, “Clinical Trial”, and “review” from the earliest to May 1, 2022.

In general, challenging issues for the implementation of CAM-related clinical trials can be divided into two categories: 1) methodological and 2) ethical. Methodological challenges included: Risk of bias, Lack of knowledge of researchers, and Blinding. On the other hand, ethical challenges in clinical trial studies are divided into two categories: patients' rights and placebo use.

Overall, the present study emphasizes the need for special attention to the quality of CAM-related clinical trials. Also, this study can pioneer the introduction of critical challenging issues in CAM-related clinical trials and provide appropriate suggestions for researchers to solve these issues in future studies.

Physical injuries affect the psychological dimension of human beings. This study aimed to investigate the impact of physical injuries on the psychological dimension of people.

This is a cross-sectional descriptive study that was conducted on traffic police staff who were referred to Valiasr hospital in Tehran, Iran due to injuries between April 2015 and November 2021. The required information was collected from the database using medical documents and registered files of injured employees. After coding data, SPSS version 26 software was used for statistical analysis.

Among the 120 injured people, the highest average score evaluated by the GHQ questionnaire was obtained by the ear, nose, and throat group (22%), upper limb (20%), eye (19%), lower limb (17%), and digestion (14%), which shows that in some cases (physical scale, anxiety and sleep disorder, symptoms of social action, symptoms of depression) are exposed to damage. The urology-affected group got the lowest score among the different groups with 8%, which indicates that this group is in a very favorable state in terms of mental health.

The results of this study showed that the most type of physical injury that affected the psychological dimension of people was the ear, nose, and throat injury, and the least injury was related to urology.

The meaning of life has become one of the most important issues of the present age. The meaning of life refers to the main purpose and concept of each person's life and consists of the aspects of the existence of meaning and the search for meaning. The meaning of life has a vital role against stress and is related to the mental health of people. Students are one of the groups that are vulnerable to stress, so this study was conducted with the aim of determining the status of the meaning of life and its related factors among students.

This cross-sectional study was conducted among 163 students of Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences. The samples were collected using the Internet-based method. The data collection tool was the standard questionnaire on the meaning of life and demographic information. The data were analyzed in SPSS version 26 using descriptive and analytical statistics.

No statistically significant association was observed between the overall score of the meaning of life questionnaire and the score of the components of existence and search for meaning with different classes of gender, marital status, level of education, the field of study, economic status and the number of siblings (P>0.05). . However, the overall score of the meaning of life questionnaire (P=0.023) and the existence of meaning component (P=0.013) had a statistically significant difference between different age groups. Also, a positive and significant correlation was observed between the existence of meaning and the search for meaning (p<0.001, r=0.361).

According to the findings, the relationship between the meaning of life and demographic information is different in different cultures, so in each culture, their relationship should be measured separately.

post-operative surgical wound healing is highly important, so, it could be of great benefit to find suitable alternatives for chemical drugs through herbal remedies in Persian Medicine. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of Arnebia euchroma ointment on surgical wound healing process.

In this experimental study, 24 Wistar rats were randomly divided into four groups (n=6 per group); controls (no intervention), positive controls (silver sulfadiazine cream 1%), intervention group I (Arnebia euchroma ointment), and intervention group II (mixed Arnebia euchroma and silver sulfadiazin cream1%). In all groups, an ulcer was developed in the back of the neck, then the groups were treated for 21 days. Wound healing was evaluated at days 4, 7, 14, and 21. Data were analyzed in SPSS V22 applying one-way ANOVA and Games- Howell post hoc test for normal distribution and Kruskal-Wallis test for non-normal distribution.

Surgical wound healing was found be significantly different between intervention group I and control group at days 4 (P= 0.00) and 7 (P= 0.02). Percentage of wound healing at day 14, in control group, the positive controls, and intervention groups I and II were 81.16±4.4, 84±19.27, 94.28±4 and 82.20±19, respectively. The rate was considerably higher in intervention group I (P= 0.07).

Topical use of Arnebia euchroma root ointment can facilitate surgical wound healing.