Jentashapir Journal of Cellular and Molecular Biology
Year:2011 | Volume:2 | Issue:2|Papers Count:7

Background: The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between communication skills and marital satisfaction in married students of Psychology and Counseling, studying in Ahvaz Shahid Chamran University and Ahvaz branch of Azad University.Methods: the sample for this study consists of 75 married students of Clinical Psychology and Counseling, studying in Ahvaz Shahid Chamran University and Ahvaz branch of Azad University, selected by convenient sampling. Mean and Standard Deviation (SD) of the age of subjects were 27.33 and 6.31 respectively. The data was gathered by using Enrich marital satisfaction questionnaire and Queendom communication skills Inventory.Results: There are significant positive correlation between communication skills and its subscales with marital satisfaction.Conclusion: This study reveals that improving communication skills leads to marital satisfaction improvement. Intervention in communication plan of couples can be used as an important factor to increase their marital adjustment.

Background: Immediate and long term effects of overweight and obesity in childhood, introduce this phenomena as a potential risk factor for many health consequences. Limited studies are focused on prevalence of children obesity based on new WHO growth standards in Iran. The aim of this study was to determine prevalence of overweight and obesity in children attending health centers based on new world health organization growth standards.Methods: In a cross-sectional study 1035 children 2-5 years old, attending urban public health centers for receiving routine children health care were surveyed in 2009. Interview with mother, filling a questionnaire by trained questioner and measurement of weight and height by trained investigators were instruments for data collection. Soft ware of WHO for PL (WHO anthro version 2006) used for data analysis after entrancing data in SPSS software. Overweight and obesity was defined based on Body Mass Index/age above 2SD and 3SD of median Z square.Results: Overall, 15% of the children were overweight. Highest prevalence of overweight was observed in the 24-35 month age group (19.4%). In different age groups of boys and girls, the prevalence of overweight and obesity was calculated 16.7%and 13.3%respectively. Overall prevalence of obesity was 7.3%. Highest prevalence of obesity in the 24-35 month age group (10.4%) was observed. Prevalence of obesity in boys and girls was 9% and 5.6% respectively.Conclusion: overweight and obesity in 2-5 years children has reached alarming proportion in Ahwaz. Urgent interventional health programs are needed to prevent childhood obesity.

Background: occupational accidents are one of the most important risk factors in industrial community which has adverse effects on economy, society and health. It should be prevented by some systematic methods and finding corrective measures. This study used 5WH technique for systematic assessment of accidents in steel company for 4 years.Methods: the research was performed in workshops of steel company to analyze accidents for 4 years. 5WH determines how, what, why, where and when of an accident. This method can identify fundamental weaknesses of safety system and their relation with unsafe acts and conditions.Results: in total there were 130 recorded accidents. The highest frequency rate was in casting in 2005, 2006 and 2007, but it was in Eskelet felezy workshop in 2008. The effect of age, work experience, education and work shift assessed. Physical agents (noise and illumination) were surveyed too. The main cause of accidents was unsafe acts.Conclusion: results of this research indicate that current accident recording system is not adequate, so it is necessary to concentrate on cause of accidents and find control measures for preventing, reducing or limiting of the results. Some suggestions contain: effective and continues education, supervision, providing guidelines, housekeeping and personal protective equipments.

Background: Cigarette smoking can cause various physical, mental, financial and social damages to the health of human beings. Cigarette smoking is known as one of the most important risk factors of noninfectious diseases. This study was conducted to assess the prevalence and to evaluate cigarette smoking and its etiology in male students of Jundishapur medical Sciences University.Methods: This descrptive – analytical study was done on Jndishapur university male students. A total numbdr of 745 students were selected via proportional stratified random sampling from Jundishapur University in 2007. Data collection was net by a questionnaire. The obtained data was statistically analyzed by SPSS software using chi – square test at the significant level (<0.05).Results: Overall, 745 caseswere studied; out of which 19.4%were smokers and 44.1%had experienced cigarette smoking. Data showed that there was significant relationship between smoking in samples and having smoker friends and family smoker members (P<0.05). There was signifacant relationship between smoking and demogrphic variables such as father and mother literacy, family size and birth rank (P<0.05). The most important cause of proneness to smoking was curiosity.Conclusion: As healty behaviors are being acquired, therefore they are educatable and changeable. One of the suitable policies in smoking prevention is knowledge and information promotion adolescents and young persons about disadvantages of smoking.

Background: Cholera, an acute intestinal infection caused by the bacterium Vibrio cholera and is a historically feared epidemic diarrheal disease that remains a major public health problem in many parts of Africa, Asia and Latin America. Vibrio cholerae 01 has two main Inaba and Ogawa serotypes and is a member of the Vibrio family. This organism is transmitted through drinking water, food and vegetable thah has been contaminated with feces and also through raw seafood or inadequately heated food such as oyster. The aim of the study was isolate Vibrio cholerae 01 (Vibrionaceae) in the Karon River.Methods: In four month (April, may, June and July 2010), a total 100 samples of water from Karoon River Ahvaz were collected. During the study period the recorded river temperature was about 25-28oC and pH ranged from 7 to 8. Water samples were collected, concentrated by centrifuge (6000 rpm), and enriched in alkaline peptone water (APW (1% peptone, 1% NaCl, pH 8.4–8.6)) for isolation of Vibrio spp. After 24h incubation, sampeles were transported onto thiosulphate citrate bile sucrose, and morphological colonies compatible with Vibrio were characterized by oxidase test and agglutinated with antiserum (Difco, Detroit, MI, USA) for serotype determination. Also V. cholerae biochemical tests with API 20E (BioMerieux, Marcyl’Etoile, France).Results: Vibrio cholerae strains were isolated from the 100 karonriver water samples. Amoung of these, 8 were found to contain; Vibrio cholerae O1 (inaba) and 7 were V. parahaemolyticus strains.Conclusion: The priorities for cholera control remain public health interventions through improved water and sanitation, improved surveillance and access to health care facilities, and further development of appropriate vaccines.

Alzheimer is a slow, progressive neurodegenerative disorder that is known as the most common cause of dementia in the elderly.Some researchers have shown that the decrease of blood flowto the brainmay act as amechanism of Alzheimer etiology. On the other hand, the thalassemia could reduce the risk of arterial hypertension due to hematocrit and erythrocyte aggregation. However, Thalassemia probably has protective effect against Alzheimer, Hypertension.