فهرست مطالب مشترک نسرین فروزنده و فاطمه دریس

The family members of patients in intensive care unit (ICU) experience high levels of anxiety and stress. This study sought to assess the effects of written emotional disclosure (WED) on anxiety and perceived stress among the family members of patients in ICU.

This clinical trial was conducted in 2019 on seventy family members of patients hospitalized in the ICUs of Kashani hospital, Shahrekord, Iran. Family members were conveniently recruited and randomly assigned to a 35-person control and a 35-person intervention group. Participants in the intervention group were trained to write for twenty minutes every other day for two consecutive weeks about their negative emotional feelings, negative thoughts, concerns, and fears associated with their patient hospitalization in ICU. The Spielberger State-Trait Anxiety Inventory and the Cohen Perceived Stress Scale were used for anxiety and stress assessment before, two weeks after, and one month after the study intervention. The data were analyzed using the SPSS software (v. 18.0) at a significance level of less than 0.05.

The mean of participants’ age was 38.91 ± 9.01 years in the control group and 33.83 ± 10.22 years in the intervention group. Around 37.1% of participants in the control group and 54.3% of participants in the intervention group were male. There were no significant differences between the groups respecting participants’ age and gender (P > 0.05). One month after the intervention, the mean scores of state and trait anxiety were respectively 57.83 ± 11.58 and 51.11 ± 10.49 in the control group and 46.94 ± 11.07 and 43.71 ± 8.76 in the intervention group. Between-group differences were significant (P < 0.05). The mean score of perceived stress at one month after the intervention was 29.00 ± 7.21 in the control group and 26.51 ± 6.15 in the intervention group and the between-group difference was not significant (P > 0.05).

WED is effective in significantly reducing anxiety and slightly reducing perceived stress among the family members of patients in ICU. Therefore, WED can be used as a simple, cost-free, and complication- free strategy to reduce anxiety and stress among the family members of patients in hospital settings, particularly in ICU.

Nowadays, students of medical universities need to be familiar with computer and information technology (IT) to become successful. The aim of this study was to investigate the information literacy and the use of IT by students in Shahrekord University of Medical Sciences.
This survey is a descriptive-correlational study. The study population consisted of all students of the Shahrekord University of Medical Sciences and the sample size included 235 students. The instrument was a researcher-developed questionnaire with a validity confirmed by faculty members and a 0.83 reliability according to Cronbach's alpha. For data analysis, Pearson's correlation coefficient and Chi-square in SPSS 16 were used.
The results revealed the frequency use of IT domains Internet obtained the most frequently used domain (67.2%) followed by Windows (54.1%), word processing software (43.8%), search engines (41.1%), and e-mail (30.5%). The highest mastery was obtained over Internet use (58.6%) followed by Windows and word processing software (48.3%), search engines (34.4%), and software installation (31.4%). The use of IT was significantly associated with previous research activities such as having PC, the skill to use computers and Internet, the mean duration of computer use per week, and English language competency (p The student's mastery over the use of IT is weak in the Shahrekord University of Medical Sciences, and certain plans are needed to educate these students by holding workshops, empowering them to do research, and revisiting the curricula to increase the credits of IT course.

Family functioning is one of the most important aspects of psychiatric treatment. The purpose of this study was the comparison of family functioning in family members of schizophrenic patients and patients with mood disorders in Shahrekord, Iran. This analytical descriptive study was conducted on family members of 186 patients diagnosed with schizophrenia and mood disorders. The data were collected through interviews using the family assessment device. Data were analyzed using chi-square, Student’s t-test, Pearson correlation, and multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA). The mean total score of the questionnaire in the family members of patients with mood disorders (2.34 ± 0.26) was significantly (P < 0.001) higher than that in schizophrenic patients'' family members (2.55 ± 0.31). The present study highlighted that family functioning among family members of patients with schizophrenia had problems in all domains.