Journal of Ilam University of Medical Sciences
Year:2000 | Volume:8 | Issue:28|Papers Count:9

This quasi-experimental study aimed at assessing the effectiveness of personal hygienic education in preventing parasitic relapses amony the primary school students of fifth grade. 200 students, selected by a multi-stage randomized method, were examined for stool tests. 120 samples implied positive results for parasitic infection. The 120 students were divided into two groups of case and control ones.After a 2 months course of education on the case group, the students were passed to laboratorial examinations again, and the test results were analysed and compared with the first stage statistically. The results showed a success of %99.9 in the educational effectiveness on parasitic infection prevention. No significant relation was seen, between the education effectiveness and different variables such as gender, the parents, occupations and literacy.

This Study aimed at describing and identifying some variables related to successful and un successful suicide attempts in Ilam, 1997.266 committers were studied through questionnaires. The findings implied that 195 people out of all had had unsuccessful attempts, while 71 ones managed in killing themselves. of all the case population, %64 were female and %36 were male with an average age of 25. Among the suicide committers, %53 were single and %67 were citizens with an educational status of baccelorate and above. Those graduated from high-school stood at a statistical place of %28 of all. Concerning the causes of the attempts, the most responsibility went for family problems in the first place and psychological & mental problems in the second. There was significant relation between the educational level and suicidal attempts at deviation level of %5, (P=0.04). Of all the 71 cases culminated in death, 53 ones (%75) died due to burning. the most prevalent way of committing suicide went for successful and unsuccessful use of drugs (%44).

This field study was aimed at identifying the cultural compatibility rate of the repatriated women, returned from Iraq and living in Ilam now, through a social psychological attitude in 1997. The sample community included 253 women whom were studied using classical cluster sampling, questionnaires and direct interviews. X tests were applied to assess the relations among the variables. The findings implied a significant relation between the cultural compatibility of the studied community with the variables of marital status, the inhabitation sort (provisional or permanent), jobs, the families, incomes, the number of each Families children, educational level, having any relatives in Iraq at the time and the residential duration in Iran,(P<0.05).No significant relation was seen between age and the cultural compatibility. The results also proved that; the more the repatriated person had been warmly welcomed by the host people, the better compatible she proved to be culturally.

This descriptive cross-sectional study was performed to assess the knowledge of the health centers staff of Ilam on the nutrition during pregnancy in 1997. In this research, 51 cases were randomly picked up out of ten centers in Ilam.Questionnaires, as the gathering tools, were used to collect the needed data, and the crostalvalis, Manvitini and Fisher tests were used to analyse the findings.The results implied that most the case centers (84.3%) were acceptably of good knowledge, and the rate average of awareness, according to sexed, was 25.94 in women while it was 26.36 in men. No significant relation was seen between the sex variables, marital status, education level, occupational records and awareness rate as well as the knowledge rate average.

This study aimed at determining the iron deficiency anemia rate among the high-school male & female students of Ilam city. Screening method with CBC tests was used to examine the 1350 cases, picked up in a cluster randomized way, whose blood indexes were also analysed. Besides, one-month course of treatment with ferrous sulfate was applied to cure the diseases. The cell indexes; results of cell, serum iron (SI) and total capacity of contact with Iron (TIBC) implied that 8±.9 of all the students were suffering from iron deficiency anemia. The findings showed that, except for RBC & MCHC, there was a significant relation between the other cell indexes before and after the one-month treatment course, (P<0.0001). A significant relation was also seen between the indexes of iron serum and TIBC of the students, (P<0.0001) The Researchers came to the conclusion that performing a one-month method of oral treatment with ferrous sulfate can improve the students, blood indexes.

This cross-sectional study was performed on 1557 stool samples in a bi-stage cluster way of sampling to assess the infection rate to verotoxigenic E.Coli at rural and urban areas. stool samples, taken from families members, were tested by plantation, serum & biochemical examinations at both the places. The achieved results were compared with the variables of sex, age, etc. No significant difference was seen between the rate of separating verotoxigenic E.Coli and diarrhea in rural areas. This difference was significant in urban places, (P=0.001).the findings implied that E. Colis as the producers of verotoxin (VTEC) are of importance in Ilam, and animal contacts as well. as using non-pasteurized raw milk are regarded as contaminants.

This descriptive study was performed to assess the level of hygienic attitudes, knowledge and actions of the employees at the fresh-fruit places in Ilam. 50 cases were selected in a simple randomized way. Checklists and questionnaires were used to collect data. The findings implied that %48 of the studied individuals enjoyed good knowledge and %52 did not show acceptable awareness of the aimed factors. Concerning attitudes, %46 were of accepted thoughts, while %54 proved weak. It was also understood that %82 of all the cases proved to act well, only the remaining %18 showed weak points in their actions.

In this study, the midwifery educational programs were evaluated on five main points as; performance quality of taught & practical education, training facilities & possibilities, the programs contents and managing style of the education process. The research method was descriptive and completed on a statistical community consisting of 67 midwifery students and 27 instructors of the midwifery & nursing school. Self-made questionnaires were the tools to collect the needed data. The findings implied that the taught education was of average quality, and the instructors considered the practical training as well as its related possibilities and facilities to be of poor value while the students regarded them as moderate.Both the groups considered the educational programs contents poor. The managing style of the programs was recognized as poor by the instructors, while it was regarded as moderate by the students.