BEYHAGH
Year:2016 | Volume:20 | Issue:4 (35)|Papers Count:10

Background and Aims: Recording and reporting are important tasks of every nurse. Recording medical information in the hospital documentations is, in fact, providing evidence of the activities performed by the medical team at hospital. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the nurses’compliance documentation principles in Sabzevar hospitals in 2013.Materials and Methods: This descriptive study was commited on 96 records selected from the hospital general wards in 2013, using random sampling of a list included 37 items. Nurses’ document status was assessed in terms of content and structure. Data were analyzed with version 16 of SPSS software.Results: The findings of this study showed a 61.49% Compliance with documentation principles in three teaching hospitals in Sabzevar. The highest average recorded, was related to the recording of the acute changes (99.87), recording of the follow-up cases (93.85) and the lowest average was about recording of the intake and output (57.18) and recording of the activity and rest situations (50.15).Conclusion: The study findings revealed serious deficiencies in data recording of nurses’ reports.Accordingly, we need to provide solutions to improve the quality of these reports. It is recommended to provide properly-prepared functional instructions on proper way of reporting to nurses periodically and continually.

Background and Aims: Nowadays, Acinetobacter is resistant to a wide range of antibiotics. One reason for resistance to carbapenems, is carbapenemase enzyme production by this bacterium. The research aimed to determine the prevalence rate of carbapenemases in Acinetobacter and antibiotic resistance patterns.Materials and Methods: In this cross-sectional study, 33 Acinetobacters were collected during a 9 month period, tertiary Hospitals of Sanandaj in 2013. Then, isolated Acinetobacters were proved and identified using biochemical tests, again. The antibiotic susceptibility test was performed by disk diffusion method. Also using Hodge phenotypic test and according to Clinical & Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI) guidelines, carbapenemase enzyme producer isolates were isolated and identified. T-test and SPSS18 software were used for data analysis (p-value<0.05).Results: Highest antibiotic resistance were related to ceftriaxone (100%) and cefotaxime (100%) and 26 Acinetobacters isolates were carbapenemase enzyme producer. Based on the statistical results, there was no significant correlation between sex (male and female) and antibiotic resistance (p-value> 0.05).Conclusion: This study revealed that Acinetobacter isolated from patients were antibiotic-resistant and carbapenemase producers. Accordingly, determination of appropriate programs for control and prevention of the Acinetobacter prevalence with antibiotic-resistant is required.

Background and Aims: swimming pool is one of the most attractive and popular sports centers for people. Pools hygiene to protect the swimmers’ health has a special importance whereas neglecting the health rules and standards can lead to various diseases. This study aimed to investigate the microbial contamination and disinfection methods in the Sabzevar- Jovein swimming pools.Materials and Method: This is a descriptive cross-sectional study to assess the microbial situation and disinfection methodes in Sabzevar and Jovin pools 127 samples out of 7 pools were collected (6 pools in Sabzevarand1pool in Jovein) over a12 months period. Studied parameters included bacteria E. Coli, total coli form heterotrophic plate counted (HPC) as well as residual chlorine, pH, and temperature. The results were compared with the standards implying the spss software and the data analysis were commited based on the Pearson and Spearman correlation coefficient.Results: According the results of this study the PH, chlorine residual, E. Coli, total coliform and heterotrophic bacteria, were respectively, 16.40, 12.55, 29.6, 90.18, 95.40% each of which exceeded the standards.Conclusion: In general, swimming pools in Sabzevar showed the average condition in terms of hygiene status while swimming pool in Jove in was in a suitable condition. Accordingly, the necessary measures for a proper sterilization should be considered in these places. Moreover, the users instruction, especially bathing before entering the water which plays an important role in preventing staphylococcal infection, should be emphasized.

Background and Aims: Waste management in rural areas can help to protect human health and improve people’s life quality in the rural areas, reducing environmental pollution, cultivate the recycling and reuse, and change the waste to bio-energy. Thus, the present study aimed to assess the quality and quantity of wastes in Firozeh city villages in the second quarter of 2013.Material and Methods: This is a descriptive cross-sectional study. Hematabad Zamani center is a rural areas of Firozeh city located in KhorasanRazavi province. In this study 3906 people were under investigation. the quality, quantity and weight percentage of produced solids in the village areas were calculated separately. Furthermore, per capita waste production was estimated for each village separately.Results: According to achieved data the total amount of produced waste in the region during 3 weeks was 12552 Kg and per capita production in the region was 357 g, daily. The maximum waste amount production (1688 Kg) linked to garbage and trash and the minimum amount of waste production (43 Kg) was related to aluminum and bottles. Papers and cartons were the most dominant discarded materials in terms of quality. In the surveyed villages, Kafkey village had the greatest amount of waste weighing 3491 Kg. The total amount of recyclable, biodegradable and putrefying materials were estimated 5821.5 Kg.Conclusion: Considering the high amount of recyclable materials in the region, the waste separation program from the source would be practical. However, due to the small amount of waste production in each village, it is recommended that the waste management program should be implemented for some neighboring vilages, simultaneously. In this way, the environmental pollution would be reduced and also it would economically be a good revenue for the collectors.

Background and Aims: Brucellosis is one of the common diseases between human and animal, which occurs in acute, subacute or chronic forms. Since brucellosis is endemic in Khorasan Razavi province, this study aimed to find out the epidemiologic features of Malta fever in Quchan County, in Razavi Khorasan Province.Material and Methods: This is a descriptive study on patients’ brucellosis files which referred to Quchan health- medical centers in 2013. Finally, statistical tests were applied to analyze data.Results: Totally 131 patients were reported out of 189651 people during 2013, 54.96 % of whom, were males and 45.03 % were females; 87.02% were villagers, 8.39% were city dwellers and 4.58% of them were nomads. The lowest disease outbreak observed in autumn and the highest rate occurred in spring. Considering the occupation highest morbidity frequency (25.95%) observed in ranchers. A significant relationships were found between gender and the job (P<0.05).Conclusion: The most occurrences were recorded in the first 5 months of the year. Furthermore, there was a significant relationship between occupation and the age. On the other hand, there was a meaningful relationship between gender and animal exposure, as well. Moreover, the patients were mainly villager men in second and third decades of their lives. A careful schedule to increase animals’ vaccination coverage can lead to the reduction of these diseases.

Background and Aims: Tea is the most consumed beverage in the world after Tea. It has always been misused by the profiteers in terms of fake flavouring and coloring. Considering the importance of this issue and the health of the society this study aimed to investigate physicochemical properties of the highly consumed tea in Babol Supermarkets.Materials and Methods: This cross-sectional descriptive study was performed on48 samples of high consumed tea, randomly selected during 2012, in Babolcity. After registration of the characteristics of the tea in the food laboratory, the presence of the synthetic color in the tea sample was examined using the chromatography test. The acidity and amount of ash were also examined based on standards.Results: The average and standard deviation of the measured pH and ash parameters in teabags and packaging were respectively 5.52±0.08, 5.52±0.07, 4.92±0.07, 4.94±0.02, which in all cases were lower than standards. Furthermore, in all cases to the use of synthetic colors was zero.Conclusion: Considering the importance of the issue and its impact on consumers’ health, precise and continuous supervision on this products in order to protect the consumers health is necessary.

Background and Aims: Addiction is one of the most important problems in the community. This study was carried out to determine the epidemiological and demographical characteristics of self-Introduced Addicts in Bandar Gaz.Materials and Method: This study was performed on the medical records of280self- Introduced Addicts arrived at four Bandar Gaz Addiction Abandonment Centers in 2012– 2015. The data analyzed by spss software 16 using chi-square & Kruskal Wallis tests.Results: In this study 280 cases were examined 94.3% of whom were male. The average age of the subjects was 42.20±12.48 years. There were 61.8% urban dewelers and 82.1% were married. In most cases, they had the history of addiction in their first class family members (46.4% brother, 37.1% father). The main reason of addiction in unmarried and married cases was the curiosity and entertainment, respectively. The most frequency of educational degree was secondary level degree (35.3%). 65.3% of them were using the opium as the main substance (single or blend) and the common ways of consumption were fumigation (47.1%).Conclusion: The results of the study revealed a high frequency of using opium and opium derivatives in Bandar gaz, Iran. To prevent such addictions, the educating and reducing the people’s exposure to the opium in the community are recommended.