COMMONITY HEALTH
Year:2015 | Volume:2 | Issue:4|Papers Count:6

Background and Objective: According to the special role of socioeconomic factors on health, the medical sciences journals should pay attention to such important issues. The aim of this study was to assess the published articles regarding resistive economy through medical journals.Materials and Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted among all Persian Medical Sciences Journals during the two years up to 2013. Titles, abstracts and keywords of all articles were reviewed in terms of words such as economy, Islamic economy and resistive economy. The data were collected by means of a tailor-made data collection sheet and analyzed using descriptive statistics indexes.Results: The outcome extracted from 13101 articles from 125 journals published by 47 Medical Universities (during 2012-2013) showed that mentioned words were used in 27 (0.2%) articles, although none of the articles were about Islamic economy and resistive economy. More than three-quarters of the articles (96%) were derived from original research. Also, more than half of the researches (51.8%) were performed by questionnaire or interview.Conclusion: According to the important role of socioeconomic factors on health, more attention should be given and further studies are necessary to be done by faculty members and university students.

Background and Objective: Coronary heart disease is one of the main causes of mortality that has a strong relationship with psychological problems specially anger. In addition, the quality of sleep is poor among the patients with coronary heart disease. Therefore, the aim of current study is to investigate the effectiveness of the anger management group therapy on sleep quality and anger among the patients with coronary heart diseases.Materials and Methods: This research was a quasi-experimental study with pre and post-tests. The 30 male patients with coronary heart diseases were selected with a convenience sampling method from Emam Jafare Sadegh’s Hospital in Aligodarz in 2014-2015. The participants were assigned randomly to the control and experimental groups. Anger management group therapy was conducted with the participation of experimental group during eight sessions (90 minutes per week). The research instruments were the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI), and the State-Trait Anger Expression lnventory-2 (STAXI-2). Statistical analysis was conducted by using the analysis of variance.Results: The results indicated that there is a significant difference between means of sleep quality (P=0.001) and anger (P=0.001) by eliminating the effectiveness of pretest (P<0.01).Conclusion: The Study showed that anger management group therapy with decreasing the level of anger and improving the sleep quality should be considered as a psychological intervention in patients with coronary heart disease.

Background and Objective: AIDs is disease that can to have various psychological problems. However, reality therapy is amongst therapies that were used for treatment of behavioral disease patients. So, the aim of present study was determinant of effectiveness of reality therapy on reduce of anxiety and increase of hope in patient with HIV-positive refereed to the disease behavioral center Shemiran’s Health Network.Materials and Methods: The study Done Semi experimental in partnership with population the patient with HIV-positive refereed to the disease behavioral center Shemiran’s Health Network that their anxiety range is middle anxiety (22 and above) and upper who in this population. 30 individual was selected by voluntary available sampling and were replaced randomly 15 individual in experimental group and control group. The experimental group was received reality therapy during 10 sessions and per week one session, but control group wasn’t received any intervention. Both experimental group and control group was collated to the Miller Hope Questionnaire and Beck Anxiety Inventory. Collected data were analyzed used covariance analysis (ANCOVA) and by SPSS-16.Results: The mean (SD) of participants age in experimental group equal to were 38.9 (6.9) and in control group equal to were 39.5 (5.2). The mean (SD) of anxiety of pretest in experimental group (16.5 (7.5)) was lower than control group (24.0 (2.8); p<0.001) and Hope of pretest in experimental group(122.5 (14.7)) was higher than control group(98.9 (13.3); p<0.001).Conclusion: The Study showed Reality Therapy Training had effects on reduce of anxiety and increase of hope patient with HIV-positive in experimental group.

Background and Objective: According to the increasing of substance use in the country, more researches about this phenomenon are necessary. This Study Investigates the Validity, Reliability and Confirmatory Factor Structure of the Drug Abuse Screening test (DAST).Materials and Methods: The Sample Consisted of 381 Patients (143 Women and 238 Men) with a Multi-Stage Cluster Sampling of Areas 2, 6 and 12 of Tehran Were Selected from Each Region, 6 Randomly Selected Drug Rehabilitation Center. The DAST Was Used as Instrument. Divergent & Convergent Validity of this Scale Was Assessed with Problems Assessment for Substance Using Psychiatric Patients (PASUPP) and Relapse Prediction Scale (RPS).Results: The DAST after the First Time Factor Structure of Using Confirmatory Factor Analysis Was Confirmed. The DAST Had a Good Internal Consistency (Cranach’s Alpha, and the Reliability of the Test Within a Week, 0.9, 0.8). Also this Scale Had a Positive Correlation with Problems Assessment for Substance Using Psychiatric Patients and Relapse Prediction Scale (P<0.01).Conclusion: The Overall Results Showed that the Drug Abuse Screening Test in Iranian Society Is Valid. It Can Be Said that Self-Report Scale Tool Is Useful for Research Purposes and Addiction.

Background and Objective: The residual pesticides in agricultural crop have a negative impact on human health and lead to an increase in various diseases such as cancer. All aspects of the management process of pesticides control in the country requires intervention and quality improvement, according to Iran current situation of pesticide overuse and incorrect usage for various reasons, including lack of awareness among farmers, using cheap and low quality pesticides, existence of unauthorized pesticide shops. This study aimed to develop evidence-based programs to reduce and refine the usage of pesticides in the national level.Materials and Methods: To draft this policy document, we searched related upstream documents and studies and after assessing their validation with critical appraisal, used them to identify the problem. Then prioritized the factors affecting the problem, and extracted a conceptual model. Panel members also performed a focus group discussion on this model with content analysis method. Based on their scores of check lists, a primary draft of evidence-based policy options was prepared and after considering the feasibility and effectiveness of policy options, decisions were taken by Consensus on final version.Results: In this study six different intervention are introduced as policy options including: development of organic agriculture, increasing supervision on pesticides import to country, equipping the laboratories with private sector accompany, information provision to farmers, revising related legislations and coding the products.Conclusion: In case policy makers adhere all recommended policy options simultaneously, their effectiveness increases and pesticides problem will hopefully solve in the country.

Background and Objective: The organizations are obligated to take sufficient attention to human resources in order to attain greater efficiency and ultimately achieve their goals. Considering the importance of desirable behavior in organizations and its impact on the attitudes and perceptions of employees, it is necessary to pay special attention to the treatment of staff and their needs. The present study was prepared to investigate the relationship between job satisfaction and conflict management styles and job burnout among health care employees in north Tehran.Materials and Methods: The study was done descriptive-analytical among employees with at least 6 months of experience and with a sample size of 224 patients at the health center. Data collection tools consisted job satisfaction, job burnout and conflict management questionnaires. SPSS software was used for data analysis and Pearson's correlation coefficient and T-test was used for independent groups.Results: The result indicates positive and significant relationship between job satisfactions with solution-oriented styles, job satisfaction has a negative and significant relationship with control strategy. Non confrontational strategy has not significant relationship with job satisfaction. Also, all of the components of job burnout (emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and reduced personal accomplishment) have a significant negative correlation with job satisfaction, and solution-oriented strategy has a negative significant correlation with emotional exhaustion.Conclusion: According to the correlation of job satisfaction with burnout, control strategy and solution-oriented styles, managers can use efficient methods such as pay and benefits commensurate with ability and experience, training and professional improvement, freedom of action, the division of labor based on merit and ability, etc. affect their behavior and increase their efficiency and effectiveness in order to further the organizational goals.