abstract background: pressure ulcer is one of the main concerns of nurses in medical centers around the world, which, if untreated, causes irreparable problems for patients. in recent years, nitric oxide (no) has been proposed as an effective method for wound healing. this study was conducted to determine the effect of nitric oxide on pressure ulcer healing. materials and methods: in this clini...

background health care worker's (hcw) mobile phones are one of the most important vehicles which transfer nosocomial infection agents. the aim of this study was identification of bacteria existing on hcw's mobile phones in three jundishapur university teaching hospitals in ahvaz. it was in two groups: clinical and administrative staff. material and methods samples were collected from 170 hcw's ...

background academic success in college is dependent to effective efforts, correct reading and time management. the purpose of this study is to investigate students´ study habits in the nursing and midwifery faculty of ahvaz jundishapur university of medical sciences. material and methods the study was a descriptive, cross-sectional, questionnaire based conducted on 415 nursing and midwifery uni...

background: an analysis performed on the collected data from the local drug and poison information centre (dpic) of jundishapur university revealed that stings are the main causes of poisonings with frequency of 56%, followed by drug poisoning in 31%, and chemical exposure poisoning in 5.5% in khuzestan, the southwestern province of iran. objectives: the aim of the present study was to report t...

objectives: this study focuses on the hematological parameters change and age in radiation field workers. the study aimed to identify the effect of radiation on hematological parameters and their relation to age and duration of the experience in radiation field workers. material and methods: this study was conducted in the physiology research center in collaboration with thalassemia and hemogl...

background various researchers have shown that the health level, performance status, and quality of life (qol) are often less than expected especially in hemodialysis (hd) patients. objectives this study aimed to determine the effect of the two methods of educational programs on health- related qol (hrqol) in iranian hd patients. patients and methods in this quasi-experimental, pretest-posttest...

conclusions it may be concluded based on the results of this study that unified transdiagnostic treatment is effective on recovery of social anxiety and negative and positive affects among the students. therefore, clinical therapists are advised to use this intervention. results results showed a significant difference between experimental and control groups in terms of social anxiety and negati...

*Corresponding author: Seyed Seifollah Beladi-Mousavi, Chronic Renal Failure Research Center, Department of Internal Medicine, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran. Email: [email protected] With interest, we read the article by Hernandez et al. about increasing awareness of chronic kidney disease and aging (1). We agree with the authors of the article that, the dia...

Dear Editor, Recently, we read with interest the case report by Sharif et al. entitled “Streptococcal pharyngitis in a two-month-old infant: a case report” published in Jundishapur journal of microbiology (1). Streptococcal pharyngitis, as reported in their manuscript, is rare among children less than 1 year old and there are no clear instructions regarding the treatment of infant patients suff...