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Background & Objective: One of the most important principles in education is adopting a teaching method in concordance with objectives, contents and learners. Teaching and learning clinical skills is a challenging aspect of education in field of medicine and allied health profession. Some of the new researchers have shown that video-based instruction has many advantages in comparative to others. But in the domain of the psychomotor learning there is not enough evidence to show that video-based instruction is an effective teaching method. The current study has compared students learning in video-based and demonstration methods. Materials & Methods: An experimental study was conducted on 40 first year nursing and midwifery students. The students were randomly assigned to case (N=20) and control (N=20) groups based on the their course. The data were collected from a pre-test, a post-test and a questionnaire for demographic information. Pre-test was given 24 hours prior to the presentation sessions. Then each group has received one skill with video-based and another skill with demonstration. Skills included the dressing changing and surgical hand washing. After 24 hours post-test was taken with previous criteria. The differences between the pre-test and post-test scores were considered as they are at learning level. Results: The overall learning in the demonstration method was higher than the video-based method (P<0.05). However the scores of students in 2 methods was at acceptable level. The scores of students in the cognitive domain of hand washing by the demonstration were 16.20±1.5 and by the video-based method were 15.25±1. The scores of students in the psychomotor domain of hand washing by the demonstration was 16.85±1.4 and by the video-based method was 15.94±1.4 (P<0.05). The scores of students in the cognitive domain of dressing change by the demonstration was 25.60±1.8 and by the video-based method was 15.50±1. The scores of students in the psychomotor domain of dressing change by the demonstration was 16.78±1.3 and with the video-based was 16.12±1 (P<0.05). Conclusion: The results indicated that demonstration method is more effective in the students learning. However, both video-based and demonstration have led to the high level of cognitive and psychomotor learning. It could be concluded that video-based instruction can be an effective method for replacing the demonstration, especially when there is not access to demonstration, in addition according to the findings, video-based education is a effective methods for transporting knowledge, information and other topics in the cognitive domain. Therefore, considering the cost-effectiveness of video-based instruction and its ease of use, this method can facilitate education in where lack of experienced instructors and equipment is most pronounced.

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Background and Objective: In psychotherapy, mindfulness is intended as a mode promotion of self- awareness think to improve well-being. This study was done to determine the effect of mindfulness training on reduction of depressive symptoms among students. Methods: In this quasi-experimental study, 40 female students with depressive symptoms were divided into mindfulness training and control groups. Subjects in experimental group received training mindfulness-based stress reduction and the control group did not receive any training. Training was performed eight sessions for experimentl group. Subjects completed the beck depression questionnaire prior and after the training. Results: The mean±SD of depression symptoms was 21.10±5.6 but after mindfulness training significantly reduced to 11.5±3.70 (P<0.05). Conclusion: Mindfulness training reduces depression symptoms among female students.

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According to the definition of the World Health Organization, palliative care - which is a type of complementary medicine - is an approach that improves the quality of life of patients and their families in the face of problems related to threatening diseases such as cancer. The main goal in palliative care is to give meaning to life and dignity to the patient's life until its end, an important part of which is done through the prevention and relief of suffering and mental and spiritual problems. In fact, the most important issue for people suffering from incurable diseases is maintaining peace, reducing stress and providing spiritual health. The purpose of this review article - which was done by examining the verses of the Quran and authentic religious traditions in this field - is to identify and apply the teachings of revelation in the category of palliative medicine. Teachings such as the correct understanding of man, the philosophy of illness and calamities, the virtue of patience over illness, compromise with pain, strengthening the spirit of piety, prayer, supplication and forgiveness, and paying attention to the origin and resurrection are among the categories that can be taught properly to specialists in this field facilitated access to the goals of palliative medicine, including resilience and improving the quality of life of patients and their families.