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Background: Work place stress affects the mental health, performance and safety of nurses and their patients in health care centers. Accordingly, this study aimed to assess the mental health and stressful life events of nurses working in Tehran Emergency Medical Service, Iran. Methods: This was a descriptive correlational study. Two hundred nurses working in 115 Tehran Emergency Center were randomly selected. Data was collected using General Health Questionnaire (GHQ), scaling of life events and were analyzed using SPSS software version 16. Findings: There was a statistically significant relationship between mental health and stressful life events (P < 0.001). Mental health status of bachelor nurses was better than operating room and anesthetic technicians (P < 0.001); and they had experienced less stressful events (P < 0.001). Conclusion: To select the right people for the job, it is recommended that psychological tests such as personality traits be performed at the beginning of employment. Regular education programs and psychological counseling for these individuals is also recommended.

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Background: Burnout syndrome is the most dangerous threatening factor of worker__AWT_QUOTE__s health working in health. The aim of this study was determined the relationship between burnout and performance of health house workers in East Azerbaijan. Method: This is a cross sectional study which have been done on 89 health house workers in East Azerbaijan__AWT_QUOTE__s. Data collection by Jackson and Mazlak__AWT_QUOTE__s standard questionnaires and check list of health house__AWT_QUOTE__s performance evaluation. Data were analyzed by SPSS version 18 using Pearson correlation and T-test and ANOVA. Findings: Our result showed moderate levels of burnout among health workers and between them there is the risk of burnout. There was no significant relationship between burnout and performance and between subsets of burnout including depersonalization and emotional exhaustion but there was significant relationship between performance and personal accomplishment reduce. Conclusion: Though there was no significant relationship between burnout and performance in this study, we can__AWT_QUOTE__t certainly reject the effect of burnout on the efficiency, effectiveness and productivity in the organizations. It is necessary to notice the other factors that may effect on job burnout or performance of health house workers.

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Background: Fast foods consumption among students has increased. This study assessed the factors associated with fast foods consumption in adolescents in the city of Sanandaj, Iran.Methods: In this cross-sectional study, 553 high-school students studying in the city of Sanandaj were randomly selected. Data were collected using questionnaires proved to be valid and reliable. Data were analyzed based on sample distribution using chi-square and independent-samples t tests via SPSS software.Findings: 69.8% of the studied students consumed fast foods at least once a week. Type of food consumption differed between the sexes (P < 0.001). There was a relationship between the maternal education and the knowledge of adolescents about fast foods (P < 0.050(.Conclusion: Considering the important role of family member’s, specialty the mother, about choosing adolescents’ food and the effectiveness of the level of maternal education on students’ knowledge and tendency to fast food consumption, more attention should be paid to improve mothers' knowledge, as an important strategy in reduction of fast foods consumption in this age group.

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Background: Developing a culture of safety is a core element of many efforts to improve patient safety in hospitals and medical centers. This study aimed to assess patient safety culture in a hospital in Shiraz, Iran.Methods: This descriptive, cross-sectional study was conducted on 210 clinical staff of a hospital in Shiraz. The Persian version of the Modified Stanford Instrument (MSI), after assessing its validity and reliability (Cronbach's alpha = 0.744), was used for data collection. Patient safety culture was classified into 4 levels of poor (101-125), medium (126-150), good (151-175), and high (176-200). The collected data were analyzed in SPSS software.Findings: The mean age and work experience of the participants were 28.60 ± 11.68 and 4.80 ±11.68, respectively. The mean score of safety culture was 150.140 ± 0.806. Among the studied variables, job, hospital department, and age had a significant correlation with safety culture (P < 0.05). The highest level of safety culture was related to the laboratory, radiology, and surgery departments.Conclusion: Although the status of patient safety culture in the studied hospital was classified as good, it is essential to plan and execute the required interventions to enhance it to the high level. These interventions include continuing education for staff and continuous improvement of clinical governance in the hospital.

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Background: In today's competitive environment, organizations focus on issues that affect cost and productivity, such as absenteeism due to illness (sick leave). According to the importance of this subject, this study done to assess the effective factors on the number of sick leave days among steel industry workers.Methods: This longitudinal study was conducted on workers of Mobarakeh Steel Company, Isfahan, Iran, during 2011-2015. In this study, was used model multilevel path analysis with Poisson's response; MPLUS software was used to analyze the data.Findings: 7020 participants with the mean age of 38.89 ± 7.64 years entered the study. In within-group level, variables of age, education, and disease (cardiovascular disease, arthritis and osteopathy disease, indigestion disease, endocrine disease, and cancer) had direct effect, and variables of work experience and Framingham score had indirect effect on the number of sick leave days. In addition, in between-group level, the possibility of shift work and being a smoker had direct effects on the number of the sick leave days.Conclusion: The results from the study shows that shift work workers are more exposed to disease that eventually results in an increase in the number of their sick leave days than day workers.