Zahra Dashti; Tahereh Ramezani; Shahram Arsang; Siamak Mohebi
Volume 22, Issue 3 , May and June 2015, , Pages 334-341
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Objective and background: Puberty problems and the ways dealing with them are very important and girls’ health status in puberty is even more vital. Therefore, besides passing this sensitive puberty period, they have a special condition in terms of their expected role related to their gender in society. ...
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Objective and background: Puberty problems and the ways dealing with them are very important and girls’ health status in puberty is even more vital. Therefore, besides passing this sensitive puberty period, they have a special condition in terms of their expected role related to their gender in society. So the role of this group has always been considered by researchers. This study aimed to determine general health status of female students during their puberty period and its relevant factors in Qom in 2012.
Materials and Methods: This cross-sectional descriptive-analytic study was conducted among female guidance school students in Qom in 2012. Study sample consisted of 191 girls who were chosen according to multistage cluster sampling methods from Qom girls’ schools. The study data was collected by means of Demographic questionnaire and GHQ-28 standard questionnaire. Eventually the data was analyzed by SPSS software in lower than 0.05 significance according to descriptive and analytic tests including Chi-2 and Fisher's exact test.
Results: In this study 69.9% of the students were junior students and 30.4%were in the second year (middle year) of guidance school. 31.4% of these students’ mothers had high school degrees and 8.9% of them were illiterate. 41.6% of the fathers had university degrees and 2.1% were illiterate. 85.9% of the mothers were housewives and 13.1% were employed. Students’ General Health Status mean and standard deviation were 26.87±14.72 respectively. The results demonstrated that 48.2% of students had a normal health status, 31.4% had a minor inconvenience, 18.3% had an average inconvenience, and 2.1% had a serious inconvenience.
Conclusion: Eventually the current study demonstrated that according to General Health ranking, the health grades of studied students were in minor inconvenience range and unfortunately the studied students were not in normal general health status.
Rohollah Safaee pour; Ali Rasouli; Mahmod Parham; Siamak Mohebbi
Volume 21, Issue 3 , July and August 2014, , Pages 473-484
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Background: Diabetes is considered as one of the most important health issues in 3rd millenary that the number of the patients is increasing. Self-care has been known as one of the most effective method for The prevention and control of diabetes complications. This research was performed to assess the ...
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Background: Diabetes is considered as one of the most important health issues in 3rd millenary that the number of the patients is increasing. Self-care has been known as one of the most effective method for The prevention and control of diabetes complications. This research was performed to assess the self-caring grades in diabetic patients who come to Qom diabetes community in 1391.
Materials and Methods: this cross-sectional descriptive and analytic study was conducted on 251 diabetic patients referring to the Qom diabetes community and was selected randomly. Demographic and information record checklist and also standard SDSCA questionnaire were used to collect data. Obtained information was analyzed through SPSS software 18 and p value lower than 0.05 was considered as significant level.
Results: Results showed a proportion of 32.99% have never performed any self-caring activity and only 7.97% of them followed these every day. The mean values of FBS and HbA1c were 157.74 mg/dl and 7.74 mg/dl, respectively and also self-caring score was 46.53. There was observed a significant reverse association between FBS and HbA1c values.
Conclusion: Self-caring is substantially unacceptable in diabetic patients who are under covered of Qom diabetes community and they don’t perform some self-caring actions like diary regime, appropriate exercise, control of blood glucose, foot caring and also taking medicine or insulin injection completely and regular. For this reason, these patients had inappropriate values of FBS and HbA1c
Siyamak Mohebi; Yaser Tabaraie; Gholamreza Sharifirad; Mohammad Matlabi; Marziyeh Shahsiah
Volume 18, Issue 2 , July and August 2011, , Pages 82-90
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Background and Purpose: Lower levels of academic anxiety can motivate the educational improvement but higher degrees can be a disturbance in concentration، attention، storage، recall and educational failure. Since it affects millions of students worldwide، the present study aimed to determine the ...
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Background and Purpose: Lower levels of academic anxiety can motivate the educational improvement but higher degrees can be a disturbance in concentration، attention، storage، recall and educational failure. Since it affects millions of students worldwide، the present study aimed to determine the effect of assertiveness training on reducing anxiety level in the pre-university students in Gonabad، Iran in 2008.
Methods and Materials: In this randomized clinical trail، all pre-university students of Gonabad، Iran were invited to the study; and finally 89 students were randomly assigned into experimental and control groups. Data collection instruments included a 3-part questionnaire for recording demographic، academic anxiety and assertiveness (Rathus questionnaire with a validity of 0.83). The intervention for the experimental group was a 5-session course of assertiveness training based on PRECEDE model and one session for parents and teachers to help support the intervention program. Post-test was given top both groups 8 weeks after the last training session. The obtained data were analyzed in SPSS 16 using paired and independent t-test، chi-square and correlation coefficient.
Results: The results showed that anxiety levels and assertiveness in the target group were moderate to high (18.14 and 108 respectively); a negative but significant relationship was found between these two factors (r =-0.69، p < 0.001). Also، the anxiety levels of the study decreased significantly، so that their anxiety score lowered from 18.87 to 8.12 (P