Background and Objectives: The attitudes to the professional dress code as well as the level of adherence to this code are of utmost importance in clinical settings. This study aimed to investigate the students' attitudes and adherence regarding the professional dress code at

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Introduction: Teaching is not only transfer of knowledge, but also, it is an interaction between the learner and the teacher. Thus, student participation in the teaching-learning process can be important and effective in learning. This study was performed to investigate the viewpoint of nursing and midwifery students regarding desirability of collaborative learning in their English language courses. Methods: This intervention study was conducted with the participation of 47 students of Kerman Razi School of Nursing and Midwifery. At the beginning of the course, adequate explanations on student participation in teaching was given. The process of participatory teaching was performed during each session in ten steps. During the last meeting, data were collected using a questionnaire consisting of demographic variables of collaborative teaching procedures. Data were analyzed using SPSS software version 17. Results: The findings showed that most students prefered to be taught by the teacher and collaborative teaching was less favorable. The most favorable was "the text read by the teacher", "teaching a lesson by the teacher" and "analyzing the text words by the teacher". The least desirables were "translation by two or more students using a dictionary at any given time" and "translation by two or more students without using a dictionary". Conclusions: The results showed that students favoured a lesson that was purely taught by the teacher. The nature of an English course probably yielded these results. Therefore, collaborative teaching should be started at lower levels so that students at higher levels are familiar with this method of teaching.

Background: One of the topics in health psychology is the positive effects of psychological trauma on people encountered a trauma and determining the facilitating factors of these positive effects. The present study was conducted to evaluate the relationship of posttraumatic growth with religious coping and social support among earthquake victims of Bam City, Iran, in 2015. Materials and Methods: The present study was a correlation study in which 230 participants from Bam were selected using cluster sampling method. The relevant data were collected using Posttraumatic Growth Inventory (PTGI), Religious Coping Scale (RCOPE), and Multiple Scale of Social Support (MSPSS). Then the obtained data were analyzed in SPSS performing central tendency and dispersion tests, t test, variance analysis and correlation coefficients. Results: The total Mean±SD scores of posttraumatic growth, religious coping, and perceived social support were 3.66±0.61, 3.53±0.54 and 5.37±1.24, respectively. There was a significant positive correlation between the total scores of posttraumatic growth and religious coping (P=0.0001, r=0.43). Conclusion: According to the results of the present study, improving religious coping and perceived social support could increase posttraumatic growth and provide better conditions for living and decreasing society's problems.