background: cryptosporidiosis is a common coccidian parasite infection in patients with diarrhea that has worldwide distribution especially in developed countries. therefore,the aim of this study was to determine the occurrence of cryptosporidium infection in patients with gastroenteritis admitted to hospitals of mazandaran university of medical sciences by parasitological and molecular methods...

background: systemic candidiasis is a major complication in neutropenic cancer patients undergoing treatment. most systemic fungal infections emerge from endogenous microflora so the aim of the present study was to identify candida species isolated from the different regions of body   in neutropenic patients in compare with the control group. methods: a total of 309 neutropenic cancer patients ...

ramadan fasting is an important pillars of islam .although patients and children expected from fasting during ramadan, but every diabetic adolescents intends to fast should consult his diabetes management time, and intensive monitoring of blood glucose and urine ketones .close observation by endocrinologist, and weekly follow- up and highly individualized planning for each diabetic person is es...

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conclusions there is a risk for constipation after abdominal surgery. postoperative practices are effective on the risk of constipation. objectives to determine constipation risk before the surgery, bowel elimination during postoperative period, and the factors affecting bowel elimination. patients and methods this is a cross-sectional study. it was conducted in a general surgery ward of a univ...

results after controlling for gender and educational level, we observed statistically significant differences in the modified means between the patients who considered the behavioral risk factors and those who considered the physiological risk factors (p = 0.012, md = 5.03) and between the patients who regarded the behavioral risk factors and those who regarded the psychological risk factors (p...

many of people have hospital anxiety, fear of surgery and are afraid to take medicine. nosocomephobia is the name of the phobia relating to the fear of hospitals. reducing the anxiety is a routine part of pre-operative nursing care. the aim of this study is to investigate the prevalence of anxiety in pre-surgical patients. this descriptive study was done in shahriar hospital. sample size was 11...

background and objectives: understanding and meeting the religious needs of patients could lead to the satisfaction and promotion in religious care. this study aimed to explore the patients’ religious expectations of nurses. methods: researchers used a conventional approach to content analysis in this study. eighteen patients (11 men and 7 women) purposefully were selected with maximum variatio...

background: multidimensional fatigue syndrome (mfs) is referred to as extreme inability accompanied by decline in physical functional capacity and impairment of intellectual function, such as loss of concentration. elderly people are more prone to mfs comparing to other age groups. it is expected that adequacy of dialysis affect the process of mfs among patients under dialysis. the purpose of t...

aim: the purpose of this study was to determine quality of life in peptic ulcer patients referring to al-zahra hospital of isfahan. background: peptic ulcer disease (pud) is one of the most prevalent diseases. its prevalence is 6-15% and about 10% of people experience its symptom in their life. pud can have a considerable impact on patients’ quality of life (qol). patients and methods: this des...