Iranian Journal of War and Public Health
Year:2011 | Volume:3 | Issue:11|Papers Count:10

Objective: The purpose of present study is evaluation of correlation of quality of life dimension with mindfulness in blind veterans.Methods: In this cross sectional study 93 blind veterans were participated. SF36 and mindfulness scale are used for evaluation. Pearson correlation test is used for data analysis. Results: Mindfulness is correlated with vitality (P<0.01), mental health (P<0.01), general health (P<0.05), physical role (P<0.05) and emotional role (P<0.05). Findings do not show any correlation between mindfulness and physical activity, social functioning and physical pain (p>0.05). Conclusion: Mindfulness is an important factor quality of life in blind veterans. This project with support of additional interventional study proposes mindfulness training for promotion of quality of life in blind veterans.

Background and Objective: Iraq-Iran war has been negatively affected the victims and their family members' quality of life. Especially the victims' spouses who provide care and give assistance to them who suffer from different difficulties due to living with persons with disability. The aim of this study was to assess health related quality of life in chemical warfare victims with ophthalmic damage' spouses.Materials & Methods: A group consisting of 149 female was surveyed. The 36-item short-form health survey (SF-36) questioner was used to measure quality of life. Demographic data was collected using another questionnaire. Results: the average of the chemical warfare victims with ophthalmic damage' spouses were 40.9±8.48. The highest and lowest mean scores in the study population were found for physical functioning (66.5±23.29) and body pain(45.78±23.70) respectively. The qualities of life of the spouses were significantly lower than Iranian female normal population (p<0.05). Unemployment other injuries in survivors were significantly accompanied with poorer health related quality of life in the spouses.Conclusion: The spouses' quality of life is negatively affected by the victims' chemical injuries. To orient the services regarding to long-term effects of chemical warfare injuries can improve the quality of life in this group. To provide better social support for the victims' spouses -as their main caregivers- can improve both the victims' and their spouses' quality of life.

Introduction: life satisfaction comes from personal cognitive evaluation of life circumstance based on individual unique condition and criteria. The purpose of this study was survey life satisfaction of Gorgan veterans and some Influential factors. Methods: In this descriptive and analytical study 294 Gorgan veterans were selected via random sampling. Demographic data questionnaire and satisfaction with life scale were used for date gathering. Data analysis was performed by SPSS 16 software with independent t test, one wey ANOVA and Pearson correlation coefficient. P-value less than 0.05 were considered as statistically significant. Results: the participants age mean and standard deviation was 45.39±5.47. Life satisfaction in 50 present of veterans was upper than mean (21.85±7.88). Among participants, veterans with chemical and psychiatric type injuries and veterans with three types of injuries (chemical, psychiatric and physical) had the lowest mean of life satisfaction (P<0.05). There was no significant correlation between age, injuries percent, educational level, occupational state and child number with life satisfaction (P>0.05).Conclusion: according to this finding design special intervention for promotion mental and physical health between veterans especially veterans with chemical and psychiatric type injuries is necessary.

Purpose: The purpose of this investigation was to study the respiratory parameters in different body positions (standing, chair-sitting, supine and side-lying) in chemical veterans. Methodology: 10 chemical veterans (age 42.7±5 yrs, height 174.8±5.4 cm, weight 80.8±6 kg) participated in this study. Respiratory parameters such as Forced Vital Capacity (FVC), Forced Expiratory Volume in 1 second (FEV1), Tidal Volume (TV), Peak Expiratory Flow (PEF), Minute Ventilation (VE), Breathing Frequency (fb) and FEV1/FVC ratio were measured by spirometer in different body positions. ANOVA with repeated measure was used to show the mean difference in each parameter between body positions. Results: The results showed no significant difference in any respiratory parameters between different body positions. Conclusions: Educating chemical veterans and they putting in proper body position can have a positive effect on pulmonary function and also, putting in improper body positions lead to occur variety of musculoskeletal problems that can have more effect on pulmonary system in chemical veterans.

Introduction: The aim of current study was comparison of the quality of life of the war veteran's families with/without PTSD. Method: In this purpose 300 war veterans' families were selected by clustering random sampling in Hamedan province. The measures of this research were quality of life questionnaire 28 items and demographic inventory. Results: The results of independent samples t-test have shown the war veterans with PTSD reported lower scores on Physical Function, Bodily Pain, General Health, Vitality, Social Functioning, and mental health in comparison of the war veterans without PTSD. The spouses of the war veterans with PTSD also have reported lower quality of life in all subscales in comparison of the spouses of war veterans without PTSD. The children of the war veterans with PTSD have reported lower scores only on general health in comparison of the children of the war veterans without PTSD. Conclusion: In respect to results, it appears that consideration of family's health in war veterans' families is necessary with special attention to war veterans with PTSD. However, planning, and instructional, therapeutic policies can be useful.

During a day, citizens pass through different pats and sometimes face an accident and be injured by it. Meanwhile war invalids and disabled people suffering from inappropriate designs, experience such situation more because of their disabilities. Considering the definition of disability as any limitation or impairment of sensorimotor system causing deficiency in motion or participation with others, and of the physically disabled as people who have physical impairments or weaknesses by any reason, and who have to use mobility aids, this article presented to clarify the features of appropriate paths for war invalids and disabled people, also take their problems as vulnerable groups in society into account. The aim of this study was to confirm the necessity to design appropriate paths, and to identify improvements required to bring available paths up to standards for disabled. In this regard, the problems of disabled people investigated, and after that some standards to design safe paths presented. In practice, it is conducted a field research on chaharbagh abasi avenue as a main and busy one in Isfahan, in order to find the physical disabled problems. Resulting in the form of proposals is presented in most tables.

Exposed to an alternating magnetic flied, suspension of superparamagnetic nanoparticles begins heating due to two mechanisms: Neel relaxation and Brownian rotation. This heating effect is an appropriate candidate to be used in hyperthermia treatments of cancer. In this paper the heating effect of magnetic fluid in a porcine liver tissue is numerically analyzed and experimentally validated. Analysis reported in this paper is a three dimensional and transient simulation of magnetic fluid hyperthermia process for a tissue having a micro perfusion and also is near a large blood vessel. The temperature distribution in tissue is calculated for various micro and macro perfusion rates and their effects on the temperature profile are considered.

Objective: This study effects of prazosin on the clinical symptoms of chronic combat related posttraumatic stress disorder, into the cases of chronic disorder. Methods: The study group of one type of intervention before and after sampling and testing is also random and has been on the 20 people who were exposed to disasters of war, prazosin an alpha- adrenergic antagonist drug effect on the post traumatic stress disorder symptoms studied. The subjects treated with 5 mg per day (1-2-2mg) prazosin were 6 week and after pharmaceutical intervention intensity and at three categories of symptoms generally re-experiencing symptoms, avoidance/numbness and hyper arousal by the PTSD Checklist- Military (PCL-M) measured, and data were analyzed by paired t test. Results: Comparison between the average experience symptoms before taking this medication after was (-2.45) there are significant differences. (p=0.008) also mean to the avoidance/ numbness symptoms after taking the drug than before 2.4 decreased and difference was statistically significant (p=0.004) Between mean hyper arousal before taking over and after taking the difference was(-3.05), there is a statically significant (p=0.004).Also mean overall severity of symptoms after intervention 9.7 reduced was that this amount also is statistically significant. (p=0.002). Discussion: Regarding the results of this study, alpha- adrenergic antagonists prazosin 5 mg daily in three dose divided can reduce severity of symptoms overall posttraumatic stress disorder and ameliorate intensity in all three categories symptoms re experience, avoidance/numbness and hyper arousal in patients with posttraumatic stress disorder.