Iranian Journal of War and Public Health
Year:2011 | Volume:4 | Issue:13|Papers Count:12

Background: Carpal tunnel syndrome consists of symptoms secondary to median nerve dysfunction in carpal tunnel. Every factor causing decrease in capacity of the canal can trigger the complaints. Squaring of the wrist surface somehow the anteroposterior diameter becomes 750.0 smaller than the mediolateral one, is known as a risk factor.Purpose: This study intends to determine the relationship between wrist cross-section and carpal tunnel syndrome.Method and Materials: In this case-control study the wrist cross-section in 120 subjects (60 involved and 60 intact) was measured by caliper. Presence or absence of the syndrome had been justified through electromyography.Results and Conclusion: The results indicated that the ratio of the anteroposterior diameter to transverse one in the affected and the control groups were 0.67±0.42 and 0.63±0.51 respectively. Therefore there is a significant difference of 50/0 representing the relation of carpal tunnel syndrome with the wrist cross-section.

Aims: The widespread use of sulfur mustard (SM) as a chemical warfare agent has proved its long-lasting toxic effects. Therefore, all health professionals should have sufficient knowledge and be prepared for any such chemical attack. Transforming growth factor (TGF-b), has an important role in the lungs of patients with some of chronic airway diseases, especially with respect to airway remodeling in mustard lung. Airway remodeling is characterized by defective extracellular matrix (ECM) turnover. Fibroblasts have a central role in ECM turnover. The TGF-b provides intracellular signals to regulate ECM production. The purpose of this study: isolate and achieve primary airway fibroblast cells directly from lung biopsies of chemical injuries and control samples and detect abnormal gene expression of TGF-b1 and TGF-b2 in isolated fibroblast cells, to study destructive effects on the SM gas and understanding Molecular mechanisms of SM, with the aim of developing medical Assistance.Methods: we used cell culture as an in vitro model. Thus, we cultured primary airway fibroblasts from epibronchial biopsies, and investigated gene expression of TGF-b1 and TGF-b2 in primary fibroblasts of SM injured patients and controls. Expression of TGF-b variant and receptors was measured by Semiquantitative RT-PCR.Result: Our findings revealed that expression levels of TGF-b1 and TGF-b2 was upregulated in the airway Fibroblasts of SM exposed patients in comparison with control samples.Conclusion: Our novel data, suggested that over-expression of TGF-b molecule in primary airway fibroblasts of mustard gas injured patients may involve in progression of airway remodeling of these patients.

Background: Computer Anxiety can be caused to learning disorders in students that attention to this issue has a main role for health and knowledge improvement in veteran’s students. Purpose: the purpose of this study was to survey of the relationship of academic achievement, self-esteem and gender of graduate of veteran’s students with their computer anxiety in Tehran Universes on 2011.Methods and Materials: The type of this study was descriptive analyses that sample consisted of 200 randomly selected students, Data after collecting with questioner was analyzed by Correlation coefficient and Multiple Regression Analysis.Results: The result among 200 students showed that there was a significant negative relationship between self esteem and computer anxiety of students r=-0.358 also was a significant relationship between achievement motivation r=-0.252.Conclusion: Self-esteem is a good predictor of computer anxiety that this can be a guide line for social and cultural policymaker in decrease of study problems for veteran students on country.

Drug interaction is one of the most important problems in the treatment of diseases. The concurrent prescription of different drug categories may affects the activity of each drug. The war-injured veterans suffering from different chronic intractable diseases are a group of patients with high risk of drug interaction. A cross-sectional study was conducted on war-injured veterans treated in a psychiatric hospital for 4 months. All drugs used by each patient were identified during an interview by a physician. Data were analyzed in SPSS software. The investigation was conducted on 1435 patients. The number of medicaments used by each person was between 2 to 21. Drug interactions were identified in 99.3% of patients. There were no drug interactions in only 9 patients. The number of drug interaction was ranged from 1 to 55 in each patient with the total number of drug interactions of 15, 426 in all patients. Based on FDA classification, severe drug interactions were identified in 1493 patients, whereas moderate and mild drug interaction were observed in 13015 and 930 patients, respectively. The most common type of drug interaction was observed in the patients who received different anti-depression drugs (47.5%). Among patients with severe drug interactions, the clinical investigations revealed that 85.37% of the patients were suffered from cardiovascular side effects, 58.14% from neuromuscular, 54.45% form central nervous system, 44.35% from autonomic, and 37.21% from gastrointestinal side effects. The results indicate the necessity and importance of devising some guidelines to prevent or at least decrease the drug interactions in war-injured veterans with psychiatric disorders.

Background: This study investigated the effect of physical activity in the water on self-esteem were elderly men.Methods: For this purpose, 36 men aged 60-73 years of retirement education of Razavi Khorasan randomly into two homogeneous groups were divided into experimental and control. For assess self-esteem subjects using a questionnaire measured self-esteem scale of Rosenberg (r=0.84), before and after the study was conducted. Experimental groups did water training program designed for 8 weeks. obtained using dependent t-test (p>0.05) and software 13-spss were analyzed.Findings: According to the results obtained, significant difference in pre-test in both groups self-esteem test results were not observed (p=0.360). but this difference was significant in post test and subjects of experimental group to obtain a better score compared to control (p=0.001). Also between pre and post test of subjects, there was only significant difference in experimental group in the mean self-esteem. (p=0.000). but no significant difference was not found between the control group pre-test and post test in self-esteem scores (p=0.083).Conclusion: Since self-esteem as the most basic psychological needs elderly is psychosomatic, and considering the results to confirm, the role of physical activity in the water to improve self-esteem in older men. So do these activities in the water as a safe and secure environment for improving the health of the elderly is recommended.

Background and Goal: Quality of life is a universal but abstract, mental and global concept that should be reduced to concrete, palpable and local part. The purpose of present study is evaluation of correlation of quality of life dimension with executive function of brain in blind veterans.Method: in this cross sectional study 93 blind veterans were participated. SF36 and De executive test are used for evaluation. Pearson correlation test is used for data analysis.Result: Physical and mental dimension of quality of life is correlated with all aspect of executive function without hyperactivity. (P value <0.01 for physical component and <0.05 for mental component).Conclusion: Executive functions are proper predictor of quality of life in blind veterans. This project with support of additional interventional study proposes executive function rehabilitation for promotion of quality of life in blind veterans.

Introduction Chronic complications due to chemical weapon exposure can negatively affect the quality of life. The aim of this study was to assess the health related quality of life (HRQOL) in people who had severe pulmonary complications due to the sulfur mustard gas exposure. Materials and Methods In this cross-sectional study all patients (292) with severe pulmonary complications due to chemical weapons exposure whose information thrived from the Veterans and Martyrs Affair Foundation (VMAF) database were studied. The quality of life was measured using the 36-item Short Form Health Survey (SF-36). Results The mean age of the patients was 48.8±7.8 years. The lowest scores on the SF-36 subscales were found to be the role limitations due to emotional problems (19.8±33.5), and general health (20.3±17.5), respectively. The highest scores reported in social functioning (42.9±26.2), and emotional well being (41.5±21.5), respectively. Quality of life in chemical warfare victims who had pulmonary problems was significantly lower than the general public (P<0.05). Regression analysis indicated the most potent affect on both physical and mental components for doing exercises. Conclusion The study findings suggest that chemical warfare victims with pulmonary complications suffer from poor health related quality of life and it is so necessary to improve quality of life in this population.

Background and purpose: Chronic lung disease related to mental disease. Tthis study was applied to assessment of mental health condition in chemical warfare victims with Bronchiolitis Obliterans.Materials and methods: In this descriptive cross-sectional study, were selected 93 chemical warfare victims with bronchiolitis obliterans referred to respiratory clinic of Baqyatallah hospital by no probability and convenience sampling method for research. Data was accumulated by General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12) and analyzed with SPSS statically software.Results: Average of general health score of samples was 20.32±6.43. over of 77% of samples hadn`t desirable general health. There was a significant difference between psychological disorders and undesirable general health (p<0.05). Persons with high levels of education have better general health.Conclusion: Undesirable mental health as one of the health dimensions suggested necessity of special attention to this problem for health promotion in chemical warfare victims.