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Health literacy is the capacity of each individual to obtain, interpret and understand the basic information of health services that is necessary for appropriate decision making in this area. Based on this, the researchers decided to conduct a study to investigate the relationship between health literacy and the quality of life of the elderly living in nursing homes in Guilan province in 2020.

The present study is a cross-sectional-analytical study. The statistical population included all the elderly living in nursing homes in Guilan province in 2020. The statistical sample consisted of 89 people from the mentioned statistical population who were selected through Cochran's formula and stratified-random sampling method. Data collection tools included the Health Literacy Questionnaire (HELIA) and the Quality of Life Questionnaire (SF-12). Data were analyzed using SPSS software version 20 and Pearson correlation coefficient, ANOVA, and t-test of two independent samples.

The average health literacy of the elderly is 78.97 with a standard deviation of 5.249%. The average quality of life of the elderly is 37.40 with a standard deviation of 6.645%. The result of the Pearson correlation coefficient test showed that there is a positive and significant relationship between the overall score of health literacy level and the overall score of quality of life of the elderly living in nursing homes in Guilan province in 2020. Also, the relationship between health literacy and general comprehension score, physical performance score, physical health score, physical pain score, emotional problems score, social performance score, vitality and vitality score, and mental health score in the elderly living in nursing homes in Guilan province in 2020, There is a positive and meaningful. The results of the analysis of variance showed that there is no significant relationship between health literacy level and quality of life level with age and level of education. The results of the t-test of two independent samples showed that there is no significant difference between health literacy and quality of life of male and female elderly.

By planning and designing useful educational programs in the field of health literacy appropriate for the elderly, and effective step can be taken to develop health literacy skills in society and improve the quality of life of the elderly.

Vaginismus is a sexual dysfunction in which couples are not able to have a normal intercourse. This disorder is one of the causes of infertility in women. The aim of this study is to successfully treat vaginismus disorder using Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT). This cross-sectional study was conducted at a psychiatry clinic. Two patients diagnosed with vaginismus and long term infertility, one with 6 years and the other with 7 years infertility, were chosen. The treatment, which was performed in 8 sessions lasting 45 minutes each, consisted of anatomical and functional teaching of genital organs, correction of misconceptions about sexual activity, and teachings about relaxation and mental imaging of sexual activity. After the successful completion of training, both patients were able to have satisfactory intercourse. One of the patients became pregnant after 5 months and pregnancy occurred in the other one after 3 months. CBT is still an appropriate method to treat Vaginismus and can be employed as a helpful, cost-effective, and non-invasive interventional therapy.

The common causes of 18p deletion syndrome are spontaneous errors in the chromosomal structure in the early stages of human embryonic development.
Clinical Presentation and Intervention: In this study, a 29-year-old girl was introduced with the features of deletion of chromosome 18. In addition, GTG banding karyotype revealed that this case had a deletion involving the short arm of chromosome 18. In comparison with the usual phenotype of 18p deletion, many phenotypical features of this case were similar to the other cases of 18p monosomy. However, two new features; difficulty in speaking and persistent limb tremor, were found that had not been observed in previous studies on the 18p deletion. Speaking was without obvious pronunciation, and the patient’s physical movements were always unbalanced. These two features can be new signs for 18p deletion syndrome.

Altmetrics is a new indicator for evaluation of academic research, which evaluates the findings of research published in social networks. The aim of this study was to investigate the status of the outputs of researchers in the field of "Quran and Health" in ResearchGate.

This is a cross-sectional descriptive study conducted using citation analysis and scientometrics methodology. The population consisted of 230 papers retrieved from Scopus by 2018. The data were analyzed by Excel 2016 and SPSS 21 software.

With 67 articles, Iran had the highest number of articles in the field of Quran and Health. The United States of America, Saudi Arabia, Malaysia, and Pakistan won the next places. The articles' presence rate on the ResearchGate was 86.1%. There was a statistically significant correlation between Scopus citation rate and ResearchGate indicators (readings and citation rates; p<0.01).

By sharing research findings in social networks, researchers in the field of "Quran and Health" can contribute in increasing the citation rate to the papers, and, to increase the scientific communication with other researchers, as well.

Altmetrics is a new concept retrieved from citation indicators based on Web 2.0 that can evaluate all academic outputs. This descriptive survey aimed to compare the citation rate of academic articles affiliated by Guilan University of Medical Sciences, Iran, in two social scientific networks.
The recent study was descriptive applied research carried based on scietometric approach. All of the academic articles with affiliation of Guilan University of Medical Sciences indexed in Scopus from 1997 to 2015 (845 articles) were chosen. Then, the citation rates of articles with details of indicators in two scientific social networks, ResearchGate and Mendeley were followed. The collected data were analyzed using SPSS software, through analytical statistic tests such as Student-t and Pearson Correlation Coefficient testss. The significant level was less than 0.05 in this study (P All of 845 academic papers were cited 3199 times in Scopus database until 2015. The citation rate in ResearchGate (87%) was more than the citation rate in Mendeley (52%). There was a positive significant correlation between citation rate of articles, observation rate and download rate of articles in ResaerchGate. In addition, there was a positive significant correlation between citation rates with reading frequency of articles in Mendeley (P According to the results, the ResearchGate and Mendeley scientific networks have more impact on increasing the amount of download and as a result, the citation rate of articles. Therefore, researchers in medical sciences can use these networks as a "search for information" and "self-archive" for the purpose of greater use and citation of their scientific activities.