Journal of Current Oncology and Medical Sciences
Volume:2 Issue: 4, Dec 2022

 In recent years, with the change in people’s lifestyles and the advent of technology, the method of bullying has changed. In the 21st century, bullies use new methods to harass their former peers. This type of bullying is bullying behaviours through electronic and digital media. In addition, its main feature is the lack of dependence on face-to-face communication between the victim and the bully. According to statistics, this problem has affected more than 32% of teens worldwide since 2007.

 The present study was a cross-sectional analytical study examining cyberbullying and victimization rates in adolescents aged 12 to 18. In this study, 254 children of working parents and clients referred to Shafa Educational and Medical Center of Guilan University of Medical Sciences were evaluated by a CBVEQ questionnaire (during 2021).

 The scores from the factors of victimization and cyberbullying in this study were obtained. They showed that the average score of adolescents was 22.79 in the context of cyber victimization. Moreover, the score was 20.27 in the context of cyberbullying. Besides, Boys were more likely than girls to be victims of cyberbullying. The rate of cyberbullying in adolescents aged 15 to 18 was higher than the younger ages. Furthermore, the lower the parents’ educational level, the rate of cyberbullying and victimization increased in adolescents.

 The findings of this study and a recent study about the extent of cyberbullying and victimization among teenagers suggest that preventive strategies and interventions of parents and schools are needed.

 Information on epidemiologic trends of dermatophytosis and its causative agents is essential for the healthcare system to improve its knowledge of associated complications. The main purpose of this study was to determine the distribution of fungal strains and the infection sites of patients with dermatophytosis.

 In this cross-sectional study, the demographical data and clinical characteristics of 641 patients with a positive fungal culture who were referred to Razi pathobiological laboratory, Rasht, Iran, between 2016-2021 were collected. All data were analyzed using SPSS software version 21 by a significant level of < 0.05.

 Out of 641 patients, 70% were female and the mean age of patients was 43.98 ± 16.99 years. Laboratory analysis demonstrated that Candida Albicans (44/9%), Aspergillus (31/8%), and Dermatophytes (18%) were the most common causes of superficial cutaneous fungal infections. Among the dermatophytes, the most common pathogens were Trichophyton mentagrophytes (53%) and Trichophyton Rubrum (20.8%), also, the most common site of infection was nail (64.4%).

 Considering the high prevalence of Candida Albicans and Aspergillus, especially in females, it is important to determine preventive protocols for fungal infections and better clinical management of the patients involved.

 Uropathogenic Escherichia coli strains are the most common cause of urinary tract infections in nosocomial and community-acquired infections. Phenotypic characteristics of Escherichia coli isolates in patients with urinary tract infections vary from region to region. Therefore, studying the phenotypic properties of the bacterium is very important.

 In the current study, 100 strains of Escherichia coli were detected from urine samples of patients with urinary tract infections in Mazandaran province, Babol. This study aimed to investigate the properties of metallic green sheen, beta hemolysis, and Ortho-nitrophenyl-β-D-galactopyranoside (ONPG) test of Escherichia coli.

 The most common bacterium isolated from urinary tract infections was E. coli (68.02%). In the present study, the properties of beta hemolysis, metallic green sheen, and ONPG in uropathogenic E. coli were 1, 80, and 100%, respectively.

 The results of this study showed that 20% of E. coli strains lacked metallic green sheen, which should be identified through the IMViC test and other biochemical tests.

 Since December 2019, people throughout the world has been encountering COVID-19 pandemic different populations, especially health care workers have been facing psychological challenges such as high amount of anxiety. In this study, we assessed impacts of COVID-19 pandemic on first-line health care workers psychological well-being in the north of Iran.

 This cross-sectional analytical study was conducted in 4 hot-spot major hospitals of Rasht, during first month of the outbreak in Iran. Physicians and nurses were divided into two categories as low and high risk groups based on their level of exposure to the virus. Standard general health questionnaire (GHQ-28) and defense style questionnaires (DSQ-40) were also used.

 The mean age of participants was 30.2 ± 6.6. Of total 199 subjects, 73.4% were females and 26.6% were males. 63.23% of participants were nurses and 36.86% were physicians. Base on the mental health questionnaire, 60.8% and 10.55% of participants experienced mild to moderate psychological stress. There were no significant differences between high risk and low risk groups. Females those who had lost a family member due to COVID-19 and nurses with less developed defense mechanisms were found to be associated with psychological morbidity (P<0.001). Also, in terms of psychological defense mechanisms, nurses working in high risk wards showed more developed mechanisms than their peers.

 Majority of physicians and nurses working during COVID-19 pandemic were experiencing levels of psychological distress, mostly in the form of anxiety, sleep dysfunction and depression. Females, individuals who had lost a family member due to the COVID-19 infection and those with less developed psychological defense mechanisms were at higher risk of developing mental morbidity.

 Physicians whether during training years or working years are involved with the shift work system. Night shifts and the sleep deprivation that ensues have many adverse effects both physical and mental. Hence any decrease in doctors’ mental capacities will potentially put his and his patients’ health at risk, we decided to conduct a study to check medical interns’ Visual Short-Term Memory (VSTM) and Response Inhibition Functions changes after a night shift compared to the day before.

 In this study, 32 medical interns from the Guilan University of Medical Sciences were recruited by random sampling. Each participant completed a Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index questionnaire and was asked about his/her smoking habit and prior night's sleep. Each examinee then was tested in the morning before and after the night shift for VSTM by forward Corsi Block Tapping Test (CBTT) and for Response Inhibition by Stroop Word/Color Test implemented in the PEBL software version 2beta6. The data were coded and analyzed in SPSS v21.

 There was no significant change in the intern's CBTT and Stroop Test results after a night shift and their VSTM and Response Inhibition Functions remained fairly intact. According to their PSQI results, 29 interns had poor sleep quality and only two had an acceptable PSQI score (5 or less).

 We argued that the consistent results of the CBTT and the Stroop Color Test could be due to many causes from small sample size to overall lower function under chronic sleep deprivation.

This study aimed to compare the effectiveness of emotion-oriented couple therapy and self-compassion-based therapy on anger rumination in women affected by infidelity. The method of this quasi-experimental study was with a pretest-posttest design with follow-up. The study population included all couples involved in marital infidelity who referred to Iranmehr Counseling and Psychological Services Center in Rasht in 2020, from which 20 couples (40 people) were selected as the sample by available sampling method. For data collection, Sukhodolsky et al. (2001) anger rumination questionnaire was used and emotion-focused couple therapy and self-compassion therapy sessions were performed for 16 sessions of 4 hours (one treatment every two hours) every week. After three months of treatment sessions to measure the duration of treatment, couples also participated in a follow-up session. Data were analyzed using combined analysis of variance. The results showed that the difference between emotion-focused couple therapy and self-compassion-based therapy on anger rumination was statistically significant (F = 13.05 and P = 0.001) and the effectiveness of emotion-focused couple therapy on reducing anger rumination from treatment. It is based on more compassion.

 Vaccination is currently the best option to protect people against COVID-19. On the other hand, some concerns, such as efficacy against new types of viruses, have made it reasonable to consider some additional options available, such as using the capacity of herbal medicines to strengthen the immune system. The present study aimed to investigate the scientific evidence on the possibility of using a herbal compound (anthrax), emphasized in Iranian medical sources, to help control and prevent COVID-19.

 This article is a library retrospective study that is purposeful and with certain criteria by searching the authoritative books of Iranian medicine, including Al-Hawi and Al-Qanun, and some sources of common medications such as reference books of medicinal plants and internal scientific databases and internationally including SID, PubMed, and Google scholar with related keywords, without a time limit.

 So far, no clinical study has shown the effectiveness of the herbal compound of anthrax (including yellow aloe, saffron, and myrrh) in the paired pains of COVID-19, but there is ample scientific evidence that its components are useful in similar medical conditions. It has been reported to have immune-boosting, antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, and antimicrobial effects.

 Conducting clinical trials can make the use of cholera opioids more reassuring to help control conditions such as the COVID-19 pandemic, especially in people at higher risk.