Mehdi Jamali Nik; Kazem Maskani; Mohsen Koushan; MohammadHasan Rakhshani
Volume 22, Issue 4 , September and October 2015, , Pages 708-715
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Background and purpose: cardiac catheterization is one of the most common diagnostic and therapeutic methods of heart disease, Teaching methods such as group training creates the feeling of comfort and make the patients more relax, as well as it changes their psychological and physiological responses. ...
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Background and purpose: cardiac catheterization is one of the most common diagnostic and therapeutic methods of heart disease, Teaching methods such as group training creates the feeling of comfort and make the patients more relax, as well as it changes their psychological and physiological responses. The present study was conducted to determine the effect of group emotional expressions, on stress level of patients awaiting for cardiac catheterization. Materials and Methods: This interventional study (randomized trial) was carried out on 80 patients undergoing coronary angiography for the first time, in Vasee Hospital of Sabzevar in 2014. The samples were selected according to patients available on random days. In the intervention group, emotional expression method was performed. Data were collected via State Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI), and standard anxiety questionnaire. Data were analyzed by SPSS software using Chi-square, Fisher exact and analysis of covariance. (Significant level=0.05) Results: The average age of participants in this study was about 54.11±10.67 years. Among all patients, 39 participants (48.8%) were male and 41 participants (51.2%) were females. In the intervention group, mean score of STAI decreased significantly in comparision to the control group (p‹0.010). Conclusion: Group expression of emotions affect patient’s anxiety undergoing first time coronary angiography. Therefor it's recommended to use this method befor cardiac catheterization performance.
Kazem Maskani; Arash Akaberi; Fatemeh Shahabipoor; Mohammad Ali Yaghoobifar
Volume 18, Issue 3 , September and October 2011, , Pages 224-232
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Background and Purpose: Undue admission and staying in hospitals are considered as a weakness of health and treatment systems as well as criteria of performance evaluation، used for determining the efficacy of hospital beds even in developed countries. In addition to increasing the costs، undue staying ...
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Background and Purpose: Undue admission and staying in hospitals are considered as a weakness of health and treatment systems as well as criteria of performance evaluation، used for determining the efficacy of hospital beds even in developed countries. In addition to increasing the costs، undue staying exposes the patient into nasocomial infections. Therefore، the present study was designed to investigate the rate of undue admission and staying of patients in hospitals of Sabzevar، Iran in 2009 based on the criteria of appropriateness evaluation protocol. Methods and Materials: This descriptive analytical research involving the population of patients admitted to hospitals in Sabzevar، Iran. The sample included 385 patients who were sampled through multi-stage stratified sampling. Each of the three hospitals was selected for a 12-week period، three days per week، two patients form two wards; finally 428 patients were evaluated. Data were collected through tables of admission criteria and appropriate admission of the patients as well as the hospital records. The obtained data were analyzed in SPSS 15 using chi-square and Fisher''s exact test. Results: Mean staying in hospitals was 3.23 days but 11.4% of the admissions were inappropriate; orthopedic ward (29.1%) had the highest and gynecological ward (zero) the lowest rate. Undue admission of men (13.9%) was higher than that of women (9.7%); the highest rate of undue admissions was associated with the age range of 41-60. Appropriate admission due to surgery or other invasive procedures (48.8%) had the highest frequency. In the three hospitals evaluated، 0.2% of the admissions were undue، and 99.8% appropriate. Conclusion: The rate of undue admissions is higher than appropriate ones، and the rate undue admissions in the orthopedic ward were the highest and in the gynecological ward the lowest.
Mehdi Jafarzadeh Fakhar; Kazem Maskani
Volume 15, Issue 3 , September and October 2008, , Pages 176-181
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Background and Purpose: Taking psychoactive drugs and the disgusting phenomenon of addiction occur in people due to various personal and social factors and affect the personal and social lives of the addict. Necessity of attention to this hassle made us investigate the factors affecting addiction and ...
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Background and Purpose: Taking psychoactive drugs and the disgusting phenomenon of addiction occur in people due to various personal and social factors and affect the personal and social lives of the addict. Necessity of attention to this hassle made us investigate the factors affecting addiction and withdrawal in self-declared addicts. Methods and Materials: In this deh1ive analytical study 456 addicts were randomly selected from the population of self-declared addicts admitted to Behzisti Clinic of Withdrawal in Sabzevar. A questionnaire matching with the aims of the study was completed during interviews and investigation of records. The obtained data were analyzed in SPSS using chi-square and student t-test. Results: It was found that the study sample included 394 male (86.4%) and 62 female (13.6%) informants. Mean age of males and females were 37.4±10.7 and 41.79±13.4 years respectively. In digressing to addiction men were mostly affected by friends and colleagues (46%) and strangers (42%). However women were mostly affected by family and kinsmen (40%) and strangers (30%).; and the difference was statistically significant (p
Abbas Heidari; Tahereh Tofighian; Ali Rabbanizadeh; MohmmadReza Shegarf Nakhaee; Mohsen Koushan; Kazem Maskani
Volume 15, Issue 2 , July and August 2008, , Pages 123-128
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Background and purpose: Research findings suggest a day-to-day increase in the rate of suicide particularly among the youth. Recognizing the risk factors and taking measures to control them seem essential and this study was conducted to this purpose among patients admitted to Sabzevar Hospital who attempted ...
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Background and purpose: Research findings suggest a day-to-day increase in the rate of suicide particularly among the youth. Recognizing the risk factors and taking measures to control them seem essential and this study was conducted to this purpose among patients admitted to Sabzevar Hospital who attempted to commit suicide. Methods and materials: The study is a deh1ive study and the study population was cases of suicide at Vase'ee Emergency clinic in Sabzevar Iran from which 106 cases were selected through convenient non-probability sampling. Clinical interviews were done by a psychiatrist; interviews were conducted with other family members of the cases in order to shape a clear picture of cases' personal social and economic characteristics. Throughout the interviews a checklist of intended variables was filled out. The study data were analyzed using Chi-square in SPSS. Results: In the present study 106 cases (49.1% male and 50.9% female) with a mean age of 24.88.4 years were studied. The prevalence of suicide risk factors were 63.2% singleness mental disorders (41.5%) with depression being the most prevalent (28.3%) conjugal conflicts (15%) drug-dependence (14.2%) family problems (12.3%) physical disorders (8.5%) unemployment (6.6%) stressful events such as loss of a close relative (6.86%) educational problems (3.8%) and divorce (2.8%). Conclusion: According to the findings of the present study the risk factors contributing to suicide in Sabzevar Iran may include adolescence and beginning of adulthood mental disorders conjugal conflicts family problems unemployment educational failure marital disagreement having lost a close kinsman and disappointment.
K MASKANI; M JAFARZADEH FAKHARI
Volume 13, Issue 3 , September and October 2006, , Pages 122-126
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Background and Purpose: Recent studies have revealed that stressors can originate from either disease or hospital environment, in cardiac patients, which are perceptible by nurses. However, it seems that nurses take actions by their perceptions when facing stressors. This Research was conducted to study ...
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Background and Purpose: Recent studies have revealed that stressors can originate from either disease or hospital environment, in cardiac patients, which are perceptible by nurses. However, it seems that nurses take actions by their perceptions when facing stressors. This Research was conducted to study and compare the perceptions of cardiac patients and nurses from stressors of disease and hospital environment at Vasee'e Hospital in Sabzevar, Iran.
Methods and Materials: In this cross-sectional descriptive- analytical study, nurses and patients admitted to the cardiology ware were considered as the study population, out of which 18 nurses doing rounds in this ward and 141 patients were included in the study. Patients were selected through convenient non- probability sampling. Personal information forms and stressors questionnaires (adapted from kanali 1992, Hikila 1999 and Voliser 1975) were given to both groups for data collection. Relevant data were analyzed using Mann whitney and chi- square.
Results: The findings revealed that there was a significant difference between the nurses, and patents, Perceptions of stressors (p