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Background and Objective: Road accident is one of the most common causes of death and injury of people and sometimes the cause of permanent cripple. Rescuing of the victims, preventing from aggravating the injuries and helping them to transfer to medical centers depends on applying the first aids at the scene of the accident. The drivers are the first people who are faced with the victims in road accidents, therefore we decided to determine the knowledge and attitudes of driving license trainees about first aids for the victims of road accidents. Material and Methods: In this cross-sectional study in 2007, using census sampling, 240 driving license trainees of 12 institutes in Gorgan filled out a valid and reliable questionnaire about knowledge and attitudes toward first aids for road accident victims. We used a Questionnaire including 29 questions in the field of first medical helps and analyzed the data by using descriptive and analytical statistics. Results: Most of the trainees (86%) are younger than 20 years old. Eighty-three point eight percent of them have high school diploma. The trainees (71.3%) have never passed any first aid training class. The knowledge of 70% of them is average. The trainees’ attitude (65.8%) is average. There is no significant relationship between the study variables and knowledge and attitudes of the trainees toward first aids of victims of road accidents. Conclusion: The results indicate that most of trainees of driving license that may be a driver in future have average knowledge and attitudes toward first aids and need to be instructed.

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  Background and Objective: Appropriate spending of free time can be considered as an effective means to promote the physical, psychological and moral aspects of life and to avoid of social misconduct. Since it is true for students, we tried to study the leisure time of university students in Golestan province, 2007.

  Material and Methods: In this descriptive survey (2007), the subjects were 1080 male and female students, selected­ by a randomized Multi-Stage sampling, from some universities (Golestan university of Medical sciences, Golestan University of agriculture and natural resources, Gorgan and Aliabad Azad University) in Golestan province.The data were collected using a valid and reliable questionnaire including 63 questions, and described by descriptive statistics.

  Results: The students were female (55.8%), male (54.2%) and range of 18-26 years. Their leisure time were more than 3 hours (49.3%), less than 3 hours (31.7%) only one hour in a day (12.5%) and nothing (6.5%). The students spent their time by sending message
(30.1%), surfing the internet (27.2%), and physical activity such as walking and climbing (15.8%), talking on the phone (21%), chatting with friends (9.4%) and sleeping and watching movies (3.8%).

  Conclusion: Because text messaging and surfing the internet are the main hobbies of the students , we recommend parents and university officials to have appropriate policy to help young people for using them in a healthy way.

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  Background and Objective: Poisoning is one of the significant causes of mortality and hospitalization in children. This problem occurs mostly under the age of two and is due to accidental ingestion of drug and poisons.Because of the importance of poisoning and its change in cities and time periods, this study was done to evaluate the epidemiology of poisoning in children admitted to Taleghani Medical-Educational centre of Gorgan, 2009 .

  Materials and Methods : This cross-sectional study was conducted on 164 hospitalized children due to poisoning. Patient's data such as age, sex and diagnosis were recorded in preplanned questionnaire, then data analyzed by spss 16.

  Results: In this survey, 6053 children were admitted in emergency ward of Gorgan's Taleghani hospital ­during 2009. Of these cases, 164 are related to poisoning including opium intoxication(39.63%),drugs(24.39%),kerosene(9.75%),house hold chemicals(4.87%) methadone intoxication (4.26%), and mouse killer(2.43%).

  Conclusion: Toxification should be taken into account seriously in children. Because of high frequency of opium and medicinal poisoning, we recommend public education to prevent from this accident and to improve public health.

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Background and Objective: Subjective well-being, a field of positive psychology, attempts to assess the cognitive and emotional lives. Given the fact that nursing and midwifery students are exposed to stress in clinical settings, we aimed to assess subjective well-being to promote educational programs. 

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Background and Objective: Nursing students are experiencing stress in related to academic and clinical training programs.  Given the importance of promoting mental health and emotional intelligence in academic performance,  the study of emotional intelligence and related factors could be the basis for strengthening this important variable by designing and implementing of effective training programs.

Material and Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted on 125 nursing & midwifery students selected randomly in 2013. The instruments were a demographic checklist and Shyryng Sybrya Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire. The data was analyzed in SPSS16 using descriptive statistics (mean and standard deviation) and ANOVA, T- TEST (p&le 0.05).

Results: The mean of emotional intelligence was 109.12±12.27 in nursing and 113.32±13.26 in midwifery students.  The  total score and  the score of all dimensions of  Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire were not related significantly with some demographic factors such as age, residential place, interest to major and economic status (P>0.05), in both nursing and midwifery students. In nursing students, the meaningful relation was found just between Self-awareness dimension and gender (P=0.034) and grade point average (GPA)   (P=0.049). The score of Self-awareness was higher in female students and  in the students with higher GPA.

Conclusion: Regarding the relationship between some demographics and emotional intelligence, we can design and implement effective educational programs to boost this important component.