BACKGROUND Anxiety disorders are common and test stress affects many students. Guided reflection is a new and effective method for reducing stress. OBJECTIVES To assess the effect of guided reflection on test anxiety in second and third-year nursing students of Fatima Nursing and Midwifery College, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran. MATERIALS AND METHOD This study was desi...

OBJECTIVES To assess the baseline knowledge regarding stroke risk factors, symptoms, treatment and information resources in an Iranian urban population. SUBJECTS AND METHODS A community-based face-to-face interview survey was conducted in the Shiraz urban area in Iran. A total of 385 potential participants between the ages of 15 and 83 years were randomly selected from people referred to Mota...

OBJECTIVE To explain an important aspect of violence, the spatiotemporal pattern of trauma in victims of violence visited in emergency room of Rajaei hospital, Shiraz, Iran. METHODS This cross-sectional prospective study comprised 109 randomly selected victims of violence visited in emergency room of Rajaei hospital, a tertiary referral hospital affiliated to Shiraz University of Medical Scie...

♦Corresponding Author: Negar Azarpira, MD Organ Transplant Research Center, Pathology Department, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran Tel: +98-711-647 4331 Email: [email protected] Introduction The presence of synchronous malignant tumors in patients with squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) of the pharynx is not a rare event. This is important because it can decrease the overall su...

The history of Shiraz University School of Medicine (the former Pahlavi University School of Medicine) is important if we are to understand the development of medical education in Iran during the 20th century. This medical school took a unique path to its development including full-time faculty members, use of English as its institutional language, and emphasis on self learning. However, the mo...

Shiraz University of Medical Sciences (SUMS) in partnership with Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) UK organized a two day Second International Congress on Publication Ethics at Shiraz from December 4-5th 2014. It was held in collaboration with Iranian Medical Journals Commission, Iranian Society of Medical Editors and National Committee for Ethics in Medical Research Dr. Behrooz Astaneh Ch...

Objectives: To assess the baseline knowledge regarding stroke risk factors, symptoms, treatment and information resources in an Iranian urban population. Subjects and Methods: A community-based face-to-face interview survey was conducted in the Shiraz urban area in Iran. A total of 385 potential participants between the ages of 15 and 83 years were randomly selected from people referred to Mota...

Xerostomia (dry mouth) is dryness of the mouth that may be associated with a change in the composition of saliva or decreased salivary secretion. Saliva lubricates and protects the oral tissues against irritating agents and behaves as a buffer system to protect the mouth. It has a basic role in keeping the physical-chemical integrity of the enamel (1). Consequently, decrease in saliva results i...