Background and Objective: Breast cancer is the most frequent cancer among women worldwide. The objective of the current study was to assess the breast cancer screening behaviors adherence rate and its relation with perceived susceptibility and perceived severity in Gorgan, Iran.

  Material and Methods: In a cross sectional study, 300 women referring to two health centers were ­selected through cluster sampling .­Data gathering instrument was a questionnaire including demographic, knowledge and practice questions related to breast cancer screening behaviors. Perceived susceptibility and perceived severity measured by Champion’s Health Belief Model Scale .

  Results: ­ The subjects are 18 to 60 years (30.3 ± 7.3). ­In knowledge part, 88.3% could not answer any question. In practice section, they have breast self examination (33%), clinical breast examination (11.3%) and mammography (5%) in their past history. Four- point -seven percent have high level of susceptibility and 46.7% high level of severity. Higher susceptibility was significantly associated with mammography (p=0.042) performance and not associated with breast self examination and clinical breast examination.

  Conclusion: The participant's knowledge about breast cancer screening was inappropriate. Meanwhile, the majority of them have low level of perceived susceptibility. It is a necessity to improve the knowledge and perceived susceptibility for enhancing the breast cancer screening behaviors.

Background and Objective: The usual method of assessing depth of anesthesia, which is not sensitive and specific enough, is measuring hemodynamic parameters, autonomic changes and subjective symptoms including movement, sweating and lacrimation. This study aimed to determine the relationship between the depth of anesthesia and hemodynamic indices.

Material and Methods: This correlational study was conducted on 57 patients undergoing elective hernia surgery in Shahid Beheshti Hospital ,Sabzevar in summer 2014.  An identical anesthesia technique was used for all patients.  Depth of anesthesia was monitored quantitatively by bispectral index (BIS) at 5-minute intervals, with simultaneous recording of heart rate and blood pressure. We analyzed the data using Anova and correlation coefficient.

Results: The mean age was 45.54±13.46. The patients were males (n=36) and females (n= 21).   Only 59.6 % of the patients experienced a normal depth of anesthesia. Hemodynamic parameters were not significantly correlated with anesthetic depth except for heart rate in the first 5 minutes (P= 0.013).

Conclusion: Given that hemodynamic parameters have some limitations in determining the acceptable depth of anesthesia, we recommend using the monitors based on brain signal processing.