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Introduction. Non-motor symptoms (NMS) are common in Parkinson’s disease. It can be predominant as the disease advances, thereby constituting a major source of disease burden for patients. Current study was conducted to determine the prevalence of these symptoms in the north of Iran. Method. This cross-sectional study was performed on 109 patients with Parkinson’s disease in Ayatollah Rouhani Hospital in Babol, North of Iran, during 2017-2018. NMS were obtained from a NMS standard questionnaire containing 30 questions plus the clinical and demographic information in a separate checklist of patients. NMS were then classified into nine distinct categories. The association of NMS with clinical and demographic variables was evaluated by the SPSS software version 23. In all cases, the significance level of the tests was less than 0.05. Results. The mean age of the patients was 70.59 ± 9.69 years (46-97 years) and 61 (56%) were male. The duration of the disease was 5.61 ± 4.89 years. NMS associated with sleep / fatigue with the prevalence of 76.1% were the most prevalent symptoms. NMS related to mood / cognition with frequency of 65.1%, cardiovascular with 51.4% and miscellaneous with 51.4% frequency were the most commonly reported symptoms in patients. Severity of the disease was significantly correlated with the symptoms of the cardiovascular, attention / memory and GI tract (P = 0.001). Age and education of the patients with cardiovascular symptoms and attention / memory had a significant relationship (P < 0.05). Occupation and marriage of the patients were significant with attention/memory symptoms (P < 0.05). Conclusions. The sleep-related symptoms and fatigue were the most common NMSs in Parkinson’s patients. Also, the severity of the disease and ageing were statistically significant with the prevalence of the NMS in patients. Therefore, consideration should be given to older patients suffering from more severe Parkinson’s disease.

Background. The aim of this study was to determine the knowledge and attitude of nurses of hospitals affiliated to Babol University of medical sciences with regard to epilepsy and its related factors. Method. This descriptive study was performed on 500 nurses working at educational hospitals of Babol, Iran, in 2017. A questionnaire including 7 demographic questions, 14 questions of knowledge and 10 questions of attitude was used to collect the related data. Results were gained through ANOVA and T-test. Results. In this study, the level of knowledge about epilepsy was significantly higher in subjects younger than 25 years old (P = 0.03), but the attitude toward epilepsy across different age groups was not significantly different. Also, there was no significant difference between knowledge and attitude between the two sexes, marital status and work experience. Nurses’ knowledge was not significant in terms of education, but their attitude toward epilepsy was high-er in those with undergraduate education than those with higher educated (P

Background. Epilepsy is caused by frequent generation of excitatory impulses in different part of the brain and it would affect different aspects of quality of life in these patients.The present study was conducted to evaluate the quality of life and diverse Confounding Factors in epileptic patients. Methods. This Descriptive-analytical study was performed in 2017 with a simple random sampling method on 150 patients with epilepsy who admitted to the neurology department of Rouhani hospital of Babol. We used Patient Weighted Quality Of Life In Epilepsy (QOLIE-31-P) questionnaire. All statistics were carried out using SPSS v21.0 and P