BEYHAGH
Year:2016 | Volume:21 | Issue:36|Papers Count:8

Background and Aims: The postpartum is an important period of women's lives that can influence their life quality, sexual function and marital relationships. The purpose of the present study was to investigate the relationship between sexual self-efficacy and sexual quality of life with marital satisfaction in primiparous women after delivery.Materials and Methods: The research samples were 104 primiparous women with a vaginal delivery, in 8 week postpartum, that referred to in Mashhad health centers. In this study, the sexual quality of life questionnaire, sexual self-efficacy questionnaire, and marital satisfaction scales were used as data collection tools. Collected Data were analyzed by spss software and descriptive and inferential statistical analysis.Results: The average score for sexual self-efficacy was 49.61±12.63, and sexual QOL score was 79.91±13.01 and marital satisfaction score was 65.37 ± 17.4 in primiparous women. 56.7% of the women had medium marital satisfaction, 23.1% poor marital satisfaction and 20.2% had good marital satisfaction. The findings indicated that the sexual quality of life (r=0.45, p=.000) and sexual self-efficacy (r=0.44, p=.000) in women have a positive effects on marital satisfaction.Conclusion: According to the relationship between marital satisfaction with sexual self-efficacy and quality of sexual life, it seems that improving Women's sexual quality of life and sexual self-efficacy play important roles on successful marital life in the postpartum period.

Background and Aims: Brucellosis is the most common worldwide zoonosis. Brucellosis is principally caused by Brucella abortus which leads to female reproductive failure and potential infertility in males. This study was done to investigate brucellosis epidemiology during 2011-2013 in Amol city.Materials and Methods: In this epidemiological study, data achieved from medical records of brucellosis patients in Amol Health Center during 2011-2013. Data analysis was performed using SPSS software. Chi-square was used for data analysis while statistical significance was defined as p<0.05.Results: During 2011-2013, 173 patients were reported. The highest number of brucellosis outbreaks observed in 2013. In this study 60.12% of samples were males and 39.88% were females; 68.21% were rural people and 31.79% were urban residents. The lowest disease occurrence observed in winter (15.59%) and the highest frequency observed in summer (30.62%). In terms of occupationally exposure highest morbidity frequency (32.94%) observed in housewives. A significant and meaningful relationships between gender and the job was found (P<0.05).Conclusion Disease incidence increased in the first 6 months of the year. Furthermore, the patients were mostly rural and men. This study revealed that brucellosis is prevalent in Amol city. Controlling and vaccination of sick animals would reduce the human cases.

Background and Aims: Pneumonia is the most common fatal childhood disease and the major cause of mortality in acute respiratory infections, especially in developing countries. This study investigated the demographic, family and environmental factors of less than 5 year old children suffering from pneumonia.Materials and Methods: This cross-sectional study was carried out on 120 children less than five years old with pneumonia diagnosis while pediatric chest radiographs were used. Sampling was done to extract mothers and children in Maragheh and Bonab hospitals in 2013. Data collection was consist of demographic, familial and environmental factors affecting Pneumonia. The questionnaire was completed by interviewing mothers and using their records. Data were examined using the SPSS of 19thversion.Results: Average of birth weight was (kg) 0.659 ± 2.956. Disease was widespread in females (66.2%) more than males (33.8%). 55.8% of patients were under one year old and one-third of the children were born prematurely. 39.2% of the patients had a family records of pneumonia. 36.7 percent of children were exposed to smoke inhalation. One third of mothers were under 25 years of their ages.50% of mothers were educated at the elementary level. 38.3% of mothers were diagnosed to have maternal genital tract infections during pregnancy.Conclusion: A great attention should be paid on risk factors (delivery in low age, premature birth, low birth weight, history of respiratory infections in children, etc.) and on the other hand it is necessary to provide the family training to identify signs and symptoms of pneumonia as basic roles in children disease prevention.

Background and Aims: Suicide is one of the most important community health problems which is related to many different factors in different communities. The present study aimed to describe the epidemiological data of suicides and suicide attempts in Mashhad University of Medical Sciences in 2011 and 2012.Materials and Methods In this cross-sectional study, the demographic and epidemiological data of suicide and attempted suicide during the 2-year period from March 2012 to March 2014 based on the health system database was collected. Data was analyzed by SPSS, version 19. Descriptive statistics and Chi-squared test were used for data analysis. P-values less than 0.05 were considered significant.Results: A total of 5354 cases of suicide and attempted suicide were analyzed. There were 120 (2.2%) completed suicides. 72.1% of attempted suicide were among women. But in completed (fatal) suicides just over 70% were among men. The most usual method of attempted suicide among both males and females was drug overdose. The most common methods of suicide were hanging (52.2%) for men and self-burning (16.5%) for women. More than 86%of attempted suicide and 72% of all suicide cases were in the age group 15 to 34 years.Conclusion: The findings of this study highlight the need for further studies to identify population at high risk for suicide as the first step towards planning a well-organized approach to reduce the suicide rate.

Background and Aims: Aromatic hydrocarbons are the common pollutants used in many industries. Among the aromatic compounds, aniline has a widespread application in the chemical industry. Regarding its dangerous effects on human and the environment health, there are severe limitation on water containing aniline. This study aimed to remove aniline from aqueous solution using the activated carbon produced from cotton stalks.Materials and Methods: All aniline absorption tests were done on activated carbon produced in batch reactors and containing 50 ml Erlenmeyer flask with a volume of 100 ml and concentrating on aniline and absorbent regarding different parameters including pH (2-4-6-8-10), adsorbent dose (0.02-0.04- 0.06 and 0.08 mg / l), the dose of absorbing (50- 100-150V 200 mg / l), exposure duration of (5-15-30- 40-50-and 60 minutes) temperature (10-20-40 and 50oC).Results: According to the results the optimum values obtained were, 60 minutes with 82.05% efficiency, a dose of 0.06 mg / l with efficiency of 90%, the concentration of 50 mg / l with an efficiency of 75.64%, pH 6 with an efficiency of 67.71% as. Also, studies on carbon isotherm follows the Langmuir isotherm (R2>0.9989) and synthetic quadratic equation.Conclusion: According to the results of this study and considering the absorption capacity of carbon, it can be accepted and suggested as a suitable, cheap and local alternative for Merck Carbon Standard, to treat water and wastewater pollutants.

Background and Aims Hypochondriasis is a psychiatric disorder in which despite the physical health a person believes in existence of a serious illness and concerns about it. Considering that there are few researches on this disease in Iran, this study examines the prevalence of hypochondriasis and its related factors among Students of Shahroud Islamic Azad University of Medical Sciences in 2014.Materials and Methods: This was a descriptive-cross sectional study in which the prevalence of hypochondriasis and its related factors was assessed using demographic specification form and Evans hypochondriasis-36 questionnaire. In this study, 229 Students of Shahroud Islamic Azad University of Medical Sciences were participated. Students answers to questions were analyzed with significance level of 0.05 using SPSS-v20 and descriptive and inferential statistics.Results: The average of population’s age was 22.01±2.62 years.70.3% of them were females, and 63.8% of them were living in dorms and 61.1% were undergraduate. Also the mean and standard deviation of student's score was 19.74±6.32. There was a statistically significant relationship between students’ mean scores and their residence status, educational level, field of study and age.Conclusion: According to the prevalence of hypochondriasis in conducted studies in Iran which is higher than global statistics, further researches through diagnostic conformity with psychiatric examination are recommended in this field to be conducted.

Background and Aims: The nutritional factors responsible for almost 30% of cancers in Western societies areconsidered to be the second reformable factor in cancer prevention. The overall aim of this study was to investigate the role of nutrition in cancer.Materials and Methods: This study was a case-control study.73 cancer patients and 137 healthy individuals were enrolled in this study. Demographic information, behavioral, nutritional and clinical data were collected during the interview. Data was analyzed with SPSS version 19 by Kruskal-Wallis and chi-square analysis was used.Results: The average age of the studied and the control group was 40-50 years and 35-45 years. Kruskal-Wallis test results showed significant relationship (p<0.05) between cancer andfactors such as smoking, secondhand smoke exposure, family history of cancer, history of exposure x ray, consumption of fried foods, red meat, fruits, drink, use marinades and the way of cooking vegetables, while monthly income, weight, alcohol, dairy products, white meat, vegetables, eating sandwiches and soft beer consumption does not significantly associated with cancer.Conclusion: The results suggested that reduced consumption of fried foods, red meat, drinks, marinades and high consumption of fruit and garlic reduces the risk of cancer. Therefore, changing of the life patterns, especially in nourishing can have a very beneficial role in cancer prevention.

Background and Aims: Paying attention to the environmental health indicators play an important role in reducing the hospital infections. Considering the importance of environmental health indicators in the hospital and its role in reducing hospital infections, this study aimed to check the status of environmental hygiene indexes in Sabzevar educational hospitals in 2014.Materials and Methods: A cross sectional – descriptive study was conducted on three educational hospitals of Sabzevar University of Medical Sciences in 2014. Data were collected using the checklist of National Program of Public Hospitals Accreditation (the hygiene and cleanliness segment) and through interview and observation. The checklist included 68 questions which evaluate the hospital from 7 different aspects. Data were analyzed using Descriptive Statistics and SPSS software (version 20).Results: The results showed that among the different aspects of hygienic and cleanness situation of hospitals, supplies and equipment, Work hygiene (80.6) and Hygiene and infection control (28.5) of the hospital had respectively the largest and lowes difference percentage with their highest standard level. The mean scores obtained from these three hospitals were 8.6 ± 681.6 total number of 780points.Conclusion: Due to the privileges of this study, the hygiene of all three studied hospitals was evaluated as weak considering the environmental standards of hygiene and were far from the optimal level. Therefore, more attempts should be made to improve environmental health in these hospitals.