hamideh mohseni

The outbreak of a novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) began in China in December 2019 and spread worldwide. The current review summarized clinical, radiological, and laboratory findings of patients infected with COVID‐19. Based on many studies, the main symptoms of the disease include respiratory symptoms, fever, cough, and dyspnea; there is also a wide range of biochemical, hematological, and radiological changes in the patients. The signs (or symptoms) and other variables in the early stage or the mild stage of the disease appear in a highly heterogeneous and non-specific manner. Identifying the clinical and paraclinical symptoms of COVID-19 can be effective in controlling it.

Osteoporosis is one of the major problems of the healthcare system and is a common debilitating metabolic disease among women. Pender’s health promotion model which is a conceptual framework and describes a wide range of health behavior was selected to assess the behavioral changes in this study. A total of 122 women aged between 30 and 45 were selected to take part in this quasi-experimental study. The samples were split into experimental and control groups using the block randomization method (block size of 4). The educational program, based on Pender’s model, was performed weekly. Pender’s questionnaire on preventive behaviors of osteoporosis was filled out before and two months after interventions by both groups. SPSS software version 18.0 was used for data analysis. In terms of qualitative and quantitative data (demographic characteristics), there was no meaningful difference between the two groups (P > 0.05). The mean difference (MD) in the score of the perceived benefits and barriers, perceived self-efficacy, programming, competing demand, and their commitment to a plan of actions increased in the experimental group after the intervention (P < 0.001). However, there was no significant increase in the mean score of social support in the experimental group after the intervention (P > 0.05). It can be assumed that teaching preventive behaviors of osteoporosis through Pender’s health promotion model was effective. Considering the findings, it is obvious that continuing this program can maintain and consolidate the changes which have been made in behaviors

Mother’s milk is very complex biologic liquid for babies. It is strongly recommended that babies be fed exclusively by mother’s milk for the first 6 months of baby’s life and be continued until she is 2 years old. The mothers’ self-efficiency is the main factor to predict the breastfeeding duration. Therefore, regarding the significance of instructing mothers and its effects on breastfeeding efficiency, this research was conducted to investigate the effects of pregnancy care instruction at home on the breast-feeding efficiency of first-time pregnant women.
In this clinical proficiency research, 65 first-time pregnant women, in their last 3 months of pregnancy, who referred to the clinics related to Shiraz medical school, were studied in 2 groups of treatment and control. The research instruments were 2 questionnaires, one of which contained demographic characteristics and the other one was Breastfeeding Self-Efficacy Questionnaire developed by Dennis. Six sessions of educational programs were conducted for the treatment group at home (3 sessions in the last 3 months of pregnancy and 3 sessions in the first, second, and sixth weeks after delivery). Meanwhile, a questionnaire on breast-feeding self-efficacy was filled out and analyzed in both groups.
Both groups were the same in demographic variables. Variance analysis test showed that there was a significant difference in the mean scores of breastfeeding self-efficacy between the 2 groups (P Instruction of pregnancy care (at home), focusing on feeding by mother’s milk, is effective in increasing the efficacy of mother’s breast-feeding.