Publications by authors named "A Amani"
Reading anxiety is a common issue experienced by students in different learning settings. This study compares reading anxiety among medical students in online and face-to-face learning environments. A group of 70 first-year medical students of different genders participated in General English courses during the 2021-2022 academic year at North Khorasan University of Medical Sciences.
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- - The study focuses on the incidence and impact of five common cancers (skin, breast, gastric, colorectal, and lung) in the elderly, using data from Markazi province's cancer registry in 2019.
- - Data was collected from residents older than 60, examining cancer incidence, death rates, survival, and disability, utilizing tools like Excel and DISMOD2 to analyze the burden of diseases through the Disability-Adjusted Life Years (DALY) metric.
- - Results showed varying incidence rates and DALYs between elderly men and women, with gastric cancer having the highest impact in terms of years of life lost (YLL) and years lived with disability (YLD).
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- The study aimed to compare the effects of ketorolac and diclofenac eye drops on sedation and pain relief in patients undergoing cataract surgery who received tetracaine anesthesia.
- Conducted in 2022, the double-blind trial involved patients from Amirkabir hospital and assessed various factors like pain, sedation, and overall satisfaction during and after surgery.
- Results showed that ketorolac significantly reduced pain compared to diclofenac, while sedation levels differed depending on the group, with the artificial tear group using more propofol and reporting lower satisfaction.
Introduction: Use of antibiotic prophylaxis before transurethral resection of the prostate (TURP) is highly recommended. However, there is no agreement on the use of a single antibiotic for this purpose. This study aimed to compare the prophylactic effect of cefazolin injection with oral levofloxacin on postoperative complications in TURP surgery.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe Global Initiative on Sharing All Influenza Data, a public-access database for sharing severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 genomic sequencing data, has received significantly less data from African countries compared to the global total. Furthermore, the contribution of these data was infrequent and, for some countries, non-existent. The primary aim of this review is to identify the technological barriers to routine genomic surveillance in Africa.
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