mona mohtashami

Premature birth is highly stressful for parents. Nursing support is crucial for premature infants. Parental satisfaction is a vital indicator of the quality of care provided by nurses. Therefore, determining the factors related to parental satisfaction is important in nursing care.

This study aims to investigate the relationship between social support and parentschr('39') satisfaction with the medical care provided to their premature infants in the Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICUs).

This is an analytical/correlational study. Participants were 130 parents of premature infants admitted to the NICUs in three hospitals affiliated to Tehran University of Medical Sciences in Iran. They were selected based on a convenience sampling method. Tarkka’s Social Support Questionnaires and the Neonatal Index of Parent Satisfaction were used for collecting data. Data were analyzed by using descriptive statistics and T-test, Chi-square test, ANOVA and Pearson correlation test.

It was reported that 55.38% of the infants were females, with a mean birth weight of 1880.97± 544.85 gr and a mean gestational age of 32.07±2.41 weeks. The mean age of their mothers and fathers was 31.25±5.12 and 35.03±5.66 years, respectively. The highest level of social support in mothers and fathers was related to emotional support (3.65±0.69 in mothers and 3.29±0.57 in fathers), while the lowest level of social support was related to concrete support (3.32±0.80 in mothers and 3.16±0.65 in fathers). Mothers perceived higher social support than fathers. They also had more satisfaction with medical care (3.88±0.81 in mothers and 3.63±0.69 in fathers). There was a significant relationship between social support and parental satisfaction (r=0.791, P<0.05).

Parents of premature infants need more social support, especially concrete aid. Therefore, planning to promote social support of parents, especially fathers, by nurses in the NICUs seems necessary.

The world is now in the process of passing on health to Non-communicable diseases, is a major cause of changes in the lifestyle of people. The purpose of this study was to identify the relationship between socio-economic status of living environment and health related lifestyle.

This study was performed on 1000 residents of 55 neighborhoods of Rasht by analytical cross-sectional method. Data were collected using a questionnaire including demographic characteristics, International Behavioral Health Questionnaire and a questionnaire from the British General Household Survey (GHS) Social Capital questionnaire. Data analysis using descriptive statistics indexes and Statistical tests Pearson correlation coefficient, independent t-test and linear regression.

According to the results of the present study, the average age of the samples were (43.73 ± 15.55). According to the linear regression model among environmental indicators, dissatisfaction with facilities were introduced as a predictor of physical activity (B=-0/17، P<0.001), smoking (B=0/07، P<0.001) and alcohol consumption (B= 0/08، P <0.001).

The current study shows living environmental indicators play a significant role in health related lifestyle among people. Hence, there is a need for more attention to both physical and social aspects of living places to strengthen healthy lifestyle of people.

In order to investigate the effect of seed pretreatment with growth regulators on biochemical characteristics of red bean genotypes, a factorial experiment was carried out in a randomized complete block design with three replications. In this research, seed pretreatment with growth regulators namely salicylic acid (SA) and naphthalene acetic acid (NAA) were applied at four levels including P0: control (pretreated with distilled water); P1: pretreated with NAA hormone (0.5 mM/lit); P2: pretreated with SA hormone (0.7 mM/lit); P3: pretreated with combination of NAA hormones (0.5 and 0.7 mM/lit) and two genotypes of red beans (KS31169 and D81083). The ANOVA results showed that the simple effects and the interactive effects of genotypes × priming with growth regulators on all traits were significant except the relative chlorophyll content. The results of mean comparison for the interactive effect of genotypes and priming with growth regulators showed that application of SA increased the amount of chlorophyll a in D81083 genotype. The highest rate of chlorophyll b and total chlorophyll belonged to D81083 genotype with application of NAA. The rates of flavonoids and carotenoids decreased by using growth regulators, therefore the highest rates of these traits were observed in control × D81083 genotype. Seed priming with combined treatments (NAA) led to the highest stability of cytoplasmic membrane in KS31169 genotype. In general, the results of the present study indicated that the use of growth regulators as seed pretreatment will increase the main pigments of photosynthesis and cytoplasmic membrane stability.