Introduction: Social and organizational supports are effective factors closely related to job burnout and Due to the limited studies in this area on Iranian workers, this study aims to determine the predictability of social support and organizational support in  job burnout for workers in Yazd. Methods: This cross-sectional study was carried out among 200 textile workers in Yazd through stratified random sampling. The data were collected by the tools including demographic characteristics, questionnaires of social support, organizational support, and Maslach's job burnout. The data were analyzed by SPSS using the Pearson correlation coefficient and the multiple linear regression. The Significance level of tests was considered as p <0.05.  Results: There was a significant strong positive relationship between job burnout and emotional exhaustion (r = 0.88) .There was found a significant negative correlation between job burnout  and social support (r =- 0.390), friend support (-0.401), family supoert (-0.218), important others support (- 0.283) (p <0.001 (. Multiple linear egression analysis showed that friends, the family, explained 17.8% of job burnout changes, and important people  (R2=0.178,  p<0.001) whereas support from friends was the strongest effective factor for job burnout (β= - 0.338, p <0.001). 35.9% of the changes in job burnout were explained by social and organizational support (R2= 0.359, p<0.001) with organizational support being the strongest effective factor on job burnout (β= - 0.472, p<0.001). Conclusion: Given that organizational support was the most significant predictor of job burnout in workers, developing organizational intervention to  increase support in workplace can be regarded as strategies to reduce or slow down job burnout among workers.

Introduction: Job stress is considered as an integral part of work environments that always affects people's job aspects and can reduce the performance and productivity of employees in organizations. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between job stress and job performance in staff of Yazd University of Medical Sciences. Methods: The study method was cross-sectional-analytical. Staff were considered a statistical population. The sample size was estimated at 282 people. The study used two standard questionnaires, Philip L. Rice's (1992) job stress and Patterson's job performance. Data analysis was performed by SPSS software. Results: 242 employees participated in this study. 42.1% of the respondents were men and 57.9% were women. The Deputy for Management and Resource Development (22.7%) and the Deputy for Social Development (5.4%) had the highest and lowest number of participants, respectively. Job stress was achieved in high-level staff and low-level job performance. Also, the relationship between job stress and job performance was found to have a significant inverse relationship (R = -0.318). Conclusion: In order to increase employee job performance and reduce stressors, senior university administrators need to improve the work environment by improving communication and interpersonal relationships. Applying proper human resource management and social and motivational support, improving facilities and planning to provide appropriate physical conditions in the workplace can also play an important role.

Background: Leishmaniasis is a parasitic disease, that due to the incidence, dissemination and scattering throughout different parts of Iran is of paramount importance. This study was carried out with the aim of determining the epidemiology of leishmaniasis cutaneous in Khatam during 2008Khatam during -2012. Methods: This is a cross-sectional and retrospective study of collected demographic and epidemiological information, related to 760 patients with the disease who underwent treatment in health centers in Khatam during 2008Khatam during -2012. This information was analyzed using SPSS version 16 software and includes the history of disease outbreak, age, sex, place of residence, number of wounds, wound placement and a history of travel to endemic areas in the past year. Results:The results showed that out of a total number of patients with cutaneous leishmaniasis 460 persons were male (60.5%) and 300 persons were female (39.5%); age mean of patients was 22 ± 1.68. The 0-9 years age group was more susceptible to the disease. The lodging for 525 subjects (69.1%) was listed as village, 224 (29.7%) of them lived in the city and 11 people (1.4%) lived on the fringes of the city. 98.8% of these patients were infected with rural cutaneous leishmaniasis. There were 428 cases of wounds on the hands (56.3%) making it the most common type. Conclusion:The rural leishmaniasis is one of the major health problems of Khatam, and given the high disease incidence in children and farmers, continuing education on the care and control of the disease in the region is of very high importance.

Article Type:Original Article Introduction: Concentration in the classroom, which has been less studied in studies, is one of the most important factors influencing learning. This study aimed to investigate the ecological factors affecting concentration in classroom from the viewpoint of the students of shahid sadoughi university of medical sciences, Yazd in 2017. Materials and Methods:This descriptive-analytic study was conducted on 384 students with Cluster random sampling method. The data collection tool was a two-part 29-item questionnaire on demographic characteristics and ecological factors. The data were analyzed using SPSS18 using central dispersion index, T-Test and Chi Square.Results: All the subjects completed the questionnaires. In the domain of teacher, "the appropriate approach of the teacher to the students" the mean score was 4.12 ±1.33, in the field of the student "active participation in the class" was 4.30 ±1/22 and in the "large number of students in the classroom environment", the highest score was 4.74 ±0.59 regarding classroom-related factors. The best time to hold a class was at 8-10 AM, with an abundance of 208 people and the front row with an abundance of 298 people was considered the best place to sit in the classroom from the student's viewpoint. Conclusion:The officials of the education should support and organize workshops to enhance the skills of teachers in the classroom as well as motivating the students. Also, observance of standard number of pupils in class, the time and place of the classroom are also items to be considered.

In Brazil, the index of elderly people is growing a lot if we compare with the previous centuries. Aiming at this increase of the greater age in the country, we aim at the study to understand if physical exercise may be necessary to have an increase in our life. We will also seek to bring plausible information if leisure and eating can also influence our longevity and whether we need to maintain this for a long time. In this article, we will observe and interview 6 people with or over 70 years. We chose these people for their own experiences that we deemed necessary for the study results. We will do these interviews with a pre-prepared questionnaire to keep everyone's outline resembling one another. We will also discuss the family environment, work, education, leisure, health and food of the interviewees, aiming to know how their childhoods and adolescents were, in order to better understand the difference of life of the old days.