<p><strong>BACKGROUND &amp; OBJECTIVE:</strong> One of the most important issues in healthcare is an awareness of and adherence to patients’ rights. Patients’ physical, psychological, spiritual and social needs should be treated as if they are standards and regulations that medical teams should know about and observe. Considered as important worldwide, patients’ rights are stressed in Islam too. The objective of the study is to compare the perspectives of the personnel, students, and patients in the university hospitals of Jahrom on care-providers’ awareness of and observance of patients’ rights in the operating rooms.</p><p><strong>METHOD: </strong>The present study is a descriptive-analytical, cross-sectional project that conducted in 2014. The sample consisted of 478 subjects; the patients were sampled based on the stratified sampling method, while the operating room personnel and students were selected based on the census method. A researcher-designed questionnaire that ensured the validity and determined the reliability of it was used to collect data.</p><p>The collected data were analyzed using SPSS v. 23.</p><p><strong>RESULT:</strong> The average awareness score of the personnel was found to be 19.54 with the standard devia3.25; their observance score was 17.75 with the standard deviation ±4.69.</p><p>The average patient’s-rights-awareness score of the patients was 15.99±5.82, while their score for patient’s rights observance was found to be 24.11±5.30.</p><p>The average patient’s-rights-awareness score of the students was 20.061±3.411, while their score for patient’s rights observance was found to be 18.892±6.271.</p><p>The results of the study showed that the awareness level of both the students and personnel was higher than that of the patients. Also, a comparison between the perspectives of the three groups on observance of patients’ rights revealed that the patients had higher expectations than both the students and personnel (P≤0.05).</p><p><strong>CONCLUSION: </strong>These findings stress the need for raising patients’ awareness about their rights and ways of demanding them in clinical environments. Raising students’ awareness about patients’ rights is equally important. Moreover, enhancing hospital personnel’s familiarity with patients’ rights can guarantee patients’ health and satisfaction.</p><p>Patients’ greater concern about adherence to patients’ rights points to their rightful expectations and the need for hospital authorities and personnel to try harder to satisfy patients.</p><p>Respect for patients’ basic rights and dignity is an important issue that is stressed by WHO too. As protectors of people’s health and lives, healthcare providers play a crucial role in every society. </p>

Introduction: Patients with kidney failure often need to change their lifestyles, which can result in various psychological-social problems. The present study aims to evaluate the influence of group-based learning of stress management on psychology symptoms levels of hemodialysis patients.Method: This is a quasi-experimental, single-blind study in which 50 patients with kidney failure were randomly divided into two groups. Sampling was based on the purposeful method. Before undergoing dialysis, the patients in the experimental group were trained in stress management; the training lasted 60 minutes and was presented in 5 sessions. The patients in the control group received the standard education all the patients undergoing hemodialysis at the hospital receive. The stress levels of the patients before and after the intervention were measured by the reliable and valid questionnaire of DASS 21. To analyze the collected data, the researchers employed the statistical tests one-way ANOVA and the software SPSS 18. Result:The 50 patients under study were divided into two equal groups. In terms of such demographic characteristics as age, gender, and stress level, there were no significant differences between the two groups before the intervention. However, after the 5-week education, the stress level in the experimental group decreased from 16.96±0.90 to 8.36±1.03. In the control group, the stress level decreased from 15.92±1.44 to 13.76±1.44. After the intervention, the difference between the means of the groups' stress scores was found to be significant (p<0.001). Conclusion:The result is expected to provide new knowledge to support the effective follow-up for hemodialysis patient in order to improve their emotional and health status.

End-stage renal disease (ESRD) is an irreversible clinical condition. These patients have many problems during treatment with dialysis such as physical, mental, and socioeconomic problem to assess the influence of educational interventions based on the continuous care model on the quality of life of hemodialysis patients. The present study is a controlled clinical trial .The study population consisted of the entire patients with advanced chronic kidney failure who were undergoing hemodialysis at hemodialysis ward of Ostad Motahri Hospital in 2014-2015. The subjects were selected based on the purposeful sampling method. Based on the findings of the study the researchers set the final size at 25 subjects in each group. In the end, 50 hemodialysis patients were randomly assigned to the control and the experimental groups. The quality of life of the subjects in both groups was evaluated using Ferrans & Powers Quality of Life Index Dialysis Version before and after the intervention. Independent sample t-test showed that there were no significant differences between the two groups in all quality of life subtypes before intervention(P=0.6). But after the intervention there were Significant differences between the two groups in the quality of life subtypes questionnaire. The quality of life aspects of the intervention group were higher than the controls (P<0001). This strategy can also be recommended for increasing QOL in patients suffering other chronic diseases.

Background and Objective: General health is not simply determined by whether or not an individual is sick, but is dependent on physical, mental and social factors too. One such important factor is an individual's religious inclination. The present study aims to explore the correlation between religious beliefs and quality of life in the students at Jahrom University of Medical Sciences.Method: This is a descriptive, cross-sectional study conducted in 2014. The sample consisted of 273 students who were randomly selected. Data were collected using Religious Attitude Questionnaire and a quality of life scale. The collected data were analyzed using Pearson's correlation coefficient and SPSS v. 23. Result:The students' average age was 21.36±2.15. The means of their quality of life scores and religious attitude scores were 87.23 and 146.31 respectively. The results of Pearson's correlation test showed that there was a significant relationship between quality of life and its subscales on one hand and religious attitude and its indexes on the other; in other words, the students' mental well-being was found to correlate with their religious beliefs. Conclusion:Since religious beliefs affect college students' mental well-being and quality of life, it is suggested that through organized education, students' religious awareness be raised.

Purpose: Scleroderma is a disease without definitive treatment. It has long-term complications, but is controllable. Patients’ adherence to treatment recommendations can prevent acute and chronic complications of the disease and delay its occurrence. This study aimed to explain adherence to treatment from the perspective of patients with scleroderma. Patients and Methods: The present study was conducted with a qualitative approach. The research setting was Hafez Teaching Hospital, affiliated to Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Iran. Fourteen patients with scleroderma was purposefully selected and participated in semi-structured interviews. To analyze the data, the conventional content analysis approach was used. Results: According to the participants’ opinions, two main categories emerged. For the category “the diagnostic-therapeutic regimen as the basis of adherence to treatment”, the data analysis revealed the following subcategories: the value of diagnostic methods and adherence to the drug regimen. For the category “adherence to a range of physical care”, the following subcategories emerged: persistence in monitoring one's weight, attention to skin care, comfort by keeping the body warm, selection of nutritional patterns appropriate for disease conditions and tendency to use complementary medicine. Conclusion: Adherence to treatment can play a significant role in the self-management and control of scleroderma. The present study showed that patients with scleroderma adhere to the therapeutic regimen by following diagnostic and pharmacotherapy methods, performing skin care, choosing nutritional patterns, using complementary medicine and watching their weight.