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COVID-19, which began in December 2019 in China, can have a broader impact on individuals' mental dimensions. Meanwhile, the medical staff battling this epidemic are more at risk of mental and emotional problems.  This study aimed to examine the level of stress, anxiety, and depression and their relationship with the level of knowledge of medical staff battling in COVID-19 pandemic treatment.

This descriptive-analytical study was conducted on 641 medical staff using an online platform to design the questionnaire, and its link was placed in different groups of social networks all over the country  in which the medical staff battling COVID 19 were members. Statistical analysis was performed by SPSS 25 and Kolmogorov-Smirnov test, independent samples t-test, independent one-way analysis of variance, and chi-square.

Higher knowledge about COVID-19 was associated with younger age, clinicians, and nurses. Moreover, females were more knowledgeable in terms of support; while males were more reliable in washing hands and disinfecting wet places. Based on the categorical version of psychological factors, the majority of cases had severe stress ( 39.80 % ), normal depression ( 48.50 % ), and normal anxiety ( 57.30 % ). Finally, it was found that married participants had more knowledge about COVID-19, but knew less about its fatality.

Studies have shown negative psychological experiences caused by COVID-19 in nurses, including negative emotions, such as fatigue, discomfort, helplessness due to high-intensity work, anxiety, and worry about family members.

Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) is one of the ways to improve an undesirable sexual function.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of CBT on the sexual function and sexual self-efficacy of pregnant women.

This study was a randomized controlled trial conducted on pregnant women receiving prenatal care at the health centers in Ahvaz, Iran, from December 2016 to January 2017. In total, 60 pregnant women were randomly recruited from 5 health centers through stratified random sampling. Finally, 36 pregnant women who met the inclusion criteria were enrolled in this study and randomly assigned to intervention and control groups. The intervention group received counseling based on cognitive behavioral therapy for 8 consecutive weeks and the control group received the routine training provided by healthcare staff. Two and four weeks after the end of sessions, both groups completed the Female Sexual Function Index and self-efficacy questionnaires again.

The mean of sexual function score and self-efficacy score in pregnant women in the case and control groups before the intervention did not show a significant difference (p=0.56). The mean of sexual function score and self-efficacy score of pregnant women in the case and control groups was statistically significant 2 and 4 wk after intervention (p≤0.0001).

The results of this study showed that counseling based on CBT in comparison with the routine training during pregnancy improves the sexual performance and self-efficacy of pregnant women.

HIV/AIDS is a community medicine issue and has a wide range of negative consequences and challenges. This research aimed to investigate the effect of cognitive-behavioral group therapy on improving the quality of life and increasing CD4+ lymphocyte count in HIV/AIDS patients.

The present study was a quasi-experimental study with pre-test and post-test design and control group. The statistical population included HIV/AIDS patients in Ahvaz Behavioral Counseling Center who were selected by simple random sampling method. The sample consisted of 30 patients who were randomly assigned to two groups of cognitive-behavioral therapy and control group. After implementing pre-test on the cognitive-behavioral and control groups, the experimental intervention was administered in 8 sessions for one hour and a half as one session per week for experimental group. Quality of Life Scale, CD4 Index and Demographic Factor Questionnaire were used for data collection. Multivariate analysis of covariance with SPSS software version 22 was used for data analysis.

The results showed that in the experimental group that received cognitive-behavioral therapy, the mean (SD) quality of life score increased from 166.9 (26.7) in the pre-test to 199.5 (21.4) in the post-test (P<0.001) but in control group, the mean (SD) varied from 167.8 (25.5) in pre-test to 168.2 (18.3) in posttest, which was not significant. Also, the mean (SD) of the CD4+ lymphocyte count in the experimental group increased from 247.8 (65.1) in the pre-test to 341.8 (71.1) in the post-test (P<0.001); however, the mean (SD) count in the control group varied from 254.2 (46.2) in the pre-test reached to 256.26 (56.8) in the post-test which was not significant.

It can be concluded that cognitive-behavioral therapy improved the quality of life and CD4+ lymphocyte count in HIV/AIDS patients.

The mobile phones play a main role in developing wide social communications. Excessive usage of mobile phones can cause a lot of physical and mental problems, and probably affects on different aspects of students lifestyles such as social activities, job duties and Educational status. As educational progression or slump is one of the efficiency criterions for educational system, investigation of effective variables to it seems to be necessary. This study has been performed with analytical epidemiologic method in 1392 among 195 students at Ahwaz Judishapour University of medical science. The accumulation of data was accomplished by general health questionnaire, intensive use of mobile phones questionnaire and mean of 2 previous semesters (for investigation of their educational success); thereafter, the data were analyzed by SPSS software. The results revealed that academic success and the rate of mobile phone usage among females were more than males (p-value=0.015, 0.030); and males had better psychological health status (p-value=0.037). There was not observed any significant correlation between rate of mobile phone usage and educational success (Pearson correlation= -0.015), rather there was a significant correlation among psychological health status and amount of mobile phone usage (spirman rho=0.38). At the other hands, the more usage of mobile phone, the less psychological health for individuals;. moreover, significant correlation between psychological health and academic success was not found. Marriage had no effect on academic achievement and psychological health, and not be related to the usage rate of mobile phones.

Nowadays in contrast to previous decades that man was distinguished as a 3-dimensional being consist of biology, psych and society, then a 4th dimension added and that is moral aspect of human. In addition, Religion plays an impressive role in life of every member of society especially students. As success and failing in education is one of the scales that shows the effectiveness of educational system; so finding the effective variables on educational performance leads to better cognition and prediction of variables in educational system. Furthermore, many investigations showed that happiness and religious beliefs lead to educational progress. Hence, present study was held in 1392 among 200 medical students accepted between 1386 to 1st academic semester in 1391 in analytic epidemiologic way at Ahwaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences.. Research material consisted of 2 questionnaires includingReligious Tendency and Oxford Happiness Questionnaire, and mean of 2 previous semesters averages were used. Afterwards, this data was analysed by SPSS and used Pearson correlation coefficient in order to evaluate relationship between variables. Consequently, findings showed that religious beliefs and educational success among girls were more than boys. Between happiness and religious beliefs in two genders, men and women, and between educational success and religious beliefs just among women were realized a positive significant relationship. Findings, therefore, indicated that we can help educational success in medical students specially women by enhancing religious beliefs although, besides by participating in religious activity make them happier