Original Article
Psychology
Saeideh Eslah-kar; Shahram Vaziri; Farah Lotfi kashani
Volume 28, Issue 6 , January and February 2022, Pages 826-837
Abstract
The aim of this study was to determine the level of psychological factors which effectively contribute to the facilitation of the bereaving process of mothers who had lost their children to cancer.Methods: The current research was a purposive descriptive study with the statistical universe of mothers ...
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The aim of this study was to determine the level of psychological factors which effectively contribute to the facilitation of the bereaving process of mothers who had lost their children to cancer.Methods: The current research was a purposive descriptive study with the statistical universe of mothers whose children had lost their lives in the battle with cancer. Out of this statistical universe, 54 people were chosen using snowball sampling.Results: The results of the study reveal that self-efficiency, unemotional coping, meaning-centered coping approach, Get counseling and psychological services, Spouse support, Social support and family support, quality of interpersonal relationships, personal characteristics (hardiness), Being involved with a child's memory, Anger at God / the world / nature, Lack of confidence in the continuation of life after death, Release by the health system, Feeling lonely, avoid, Isolation, emotional coping, speed of losing a child, Seeing children of their child's age, marital conflicts, Lack of confidence in the quality of healthcare, feel guilty, A record of dying patient care, Distortion were variables which contributed to the facilitation of the bereavement of parents whose children had died of cancer.Conclusion: In light of the results of this study, the utilization of the following variables of self-efficiency, unemotional coping, meaning-centered coping approach, quality of interpersonal relationships, personal characteristics (hardiness), emotional coping and physical symptoms to facilitate the bereaving process of those mothers who lost their children due to cancer can be suggested
Original Article
Health and environment
Mousa Aminivafa; Ahmad Allahabadi; Golamreza Moussavi; Hosein Fahimi
Volume 28, Issue 6 , January and February 2022, Pages 838-849
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Background and Objectives: Antibiotics, comprising a significant amount of pharmaceutical compounds, are used as human and veterinary treatments . these antibiotics come to appear as contaminantoin soil, surface water, groundwater, and even drinkingwater.Advanced oxidation processes such as catalytic ...
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Background and Objectives: Antibiotics, comprising a significant amount of pharmaceutical compounds, are used as human and veterinary treatments . these antibiotics come to appear as contaminantoin soil, surface water, groundwater, and even drinkingwater.Advanced oxidation processes such as catalytic ozonation are effective to remove the antibiotics form water and wastewaterThe aim of this study was to investigate the efficiency of Catalytic Ozonation Process for tetracycline antibiotics removal from contaminated watersMaterial and method:In this design, an ozonation pilot with a volume of 200 cc was used. In each experiment, the tetracycline solution was poured into the desired concentration, the pH of the sample was adjusted with sulfuric acid and NaOH. At different times of 5 to 30 minutes and different pHs of 2 to 10 ozonation was performed at the dose of 0.8 mg/min. Then, under these conditions, ozonation was performed in the presence of activated carbon catalyst and a sample was discharged from the pilot and analyzed (HPLC) to determine the remaining tetracycline.Results:The results showed that under optimum conditions of pH= 8 and ozone dose of 0.8 mg / min and contact time of 30 minutes ozonation only eliminated 59% of tetracycline and in the same conditions catalytic ozonation with 0.01 g/L carbon. The Calligonum comosum tree was able to remove 100% tetracycline in 30 minutes.Conclusion: The results of this study showed that carbon catalyzed ozonation from wood Calligonum comosum waste can be used as an advanced treatment method.
Original Article
Psychology
Mahbobeh Keshtkar; Maryam Hejri; Amir Hossein Shirpour; Soleiman Hejazi Far; Zahra Nikdel; Moslem Akbari
Volume 28, Issue 6 , January and February 2022, Pages 850-861
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Introduction: The aim of this study is to compare the brain-behavioral systems in people before and after open-heart surgery.Method:The present research is a descriptive study with a comparative and retrospective causal method with purposeful sampling. The statistical population of the study includes ...
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Introduction: The aim of this study is to compare the brain-behavioral systems in people before and after open-heart surgery.Method:The present research is a descriptive study with a comparative and retrospective causal method with purposeful sampling. The statistical population of the study includes 210 people, encompassing 70 people who underwent open-heart surgery, 70 volunteered for open-heart surgery and 70 other with a history of heart diseases. the information was collected in addition to the demographic questionnaire through the Gray-Wilson personality questionnaire. Then, in order to analyze the collected data, statistical models of multivariate and univariate analysis of variance were used.Results: The results showed that, patients candidate for open-heart surgery scored higher than patients who underwent surgery and the control group in behavioral activation measure. According to the findings in the behavioral inhibition component, there is a significant difference between the three groups. Patients who underwent surgery received the minimum scores in active avoidance, further people who underwent open-heart surgery received lower scores than patients who were candidate for surgery and the control group in extinction measurement.Conclusion:Therefore, due to the decrease in the performance of the behavioral activation system and the increase in the performance of the behavioral inhibition system, behavioral-activation-based interventions under the supervision of psychologists should be planned and implemented for these patients.
Original Article
Epidemiology and Statistics
Ali Asghar Ghaleˈe Noeie; Hossein Ansari; Abolfazl Payandeh; Gholamreza Soleimani; Hossein Kamani; Ali Meshkinian
Volume 28, Issue 6 , January and February 2022, Pages 862-873
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Background: The prevalence of asthma has increased dramatically among children. The aim of the study was to determine the prevalence of asthma symptoms among school‐age children in Zahedan, southeast of Iran.Materials and Methods: In this cross-sectional study, 1,600 primary school girls and boys were ...
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Background: The prevalence of asthma has increased dramatically among children. The aim of the study was to determine the prevalence of asthma symptoms among school‐age children in Zahedan, southeast of Iran.Materials and Methods: In this cross-sectional study, 1,600 primary school girls and boys were examined by multistage random sampling. Data were collected using the International ISAAC Questionnaire. The data were analyzed in Stata.14 software using chi-square test, multiple logistic regression and Kappa coefficient.Results: The prevalence of asthma based on physician diagnosis was 6.2%. The prevalence of asthma was statistically significant in girls with 8.3% and boys with 4.2% (P
Original Article
Health and environment
Ahmad Bashtani; Elahe Amouzadeh; Jamshid Yazdani Cherati; Siavash Etemadinezhad; Hossein Kalateh Arabi; Kalteh Haji Omid
Volume 28, Issue 6 , January and February 2022, Pages 874-884
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One of the most important factors causing musculoskeletal disorder is awkward body posture during work. Ergonomic interventions to improve working posture are essential. Improving posture is effective in promoting health, reducing stress and reducing work discomfort, it is also an important factor in ...
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One of the most important factors causing musculoskeletal disorder is awkward body posture during work. Ergonomic interventions to improve working posture are essential. Improving posture is effective in promoting health, reducing stress and reducing work discomfort, it is also an important factor in terms of work efficiency and job performance. There is a close relationship between posture and work efficiency, which has led to improved posture, increased efficiency and job performance.materials and methods:The present quasi-experimental research is a descriptive-analytical study that has been performed on 164 employees of small workshops. This study was performed in three stages including ergonomic evaluation of employees' posture using REBA evaluation method, interventions and post-intervention post-re-evaluation. WILCOXON statistical method was used to analyze the results.findings:The results of this study showed the improvement of posture in the organs of neck, trunk, arm, forearm, wrist and legs. Also, the comparison of overall score and risk level before and after the intervention was significant (P
Original Article
Psychology
Hamed Maleki; Fatemeh Tabatabaee; Mosayeb Bagherinik; Sheila Laka; Mojgan Mohajeri Iravani; Mohammad Javad Namazi
Volume 28, Issue 6 , January and February 2022, Pages 885-896
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Background: The coronavirus pandemic has created the most fatal health crisis in humanity in the recent century. The present study was designed to investigate the relationship between employees' spirituality and organizational vitality in the outcome of the health carers' work in Hajar hospital, an army ...
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Background: The coronavirus pandemic has created the most fatal health crisis in humanity in the recent century. The present study was designed to investigate the relationship between employees' spirituality and organizational vitality in the outcome of the health carers' work in Hajar hospital, an army hospital in Tehran, during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. The main purpose was to determine any significant relationships between staff spirituality and organizational vitality.Methods: This descriptive survey study was performed from March 2019 to February 2020. Seventy-one employees were recruited as the sample size using the Morgan table. The characteristic of the components of employees' spirituality were examined by performing Kingerski and Skrypnek questionnaires. All variables of the organizational vitality were determined using Rojelf model and a researcher-made questionnaire which was approved by the relevant experts. To analyze the data for determination the relationship among indicators, the structural equation model was exercised using LISREL software.Results: Most of the cases were between 21 and 39 years old. The results showed that there were significant relationships between all examined characteristics of the employees' spirituality and organizational vitality.Conclusion: The results confirmed that there were significant relationships between spiritual desire, spiritual connection, sense of unity, mystical experience and the organizational vitality components including positive thinking, organizational learning, organizational participation, organizational openness, meaningful life, and interest. Accordingly, determining the effects of interactions among those values in their reciprocal promotions are deserved to be seriously studied to achieve an advanced and successful COVID-19 disease management.
Original Article
Nursing
Mostafa Rad; Nasser Mogharabian; Momamad Vali Ahmadi; Zahra Ghazi
Volume 28, Issue 6 , January and February 2022, Pages 897-910
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AbstractProper management and control of pain requires evaluation and treatment based on observation of the patient's condition. The aim of this study was to examining of the effect of patient evidence-based ambulation on pain after inguinal hernia surgery in Imam Hossein (AS) Hospital in Shahroud.Materials ...
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AbstractProper management and control of pain requires evaluation and treatment based on observation of the patient's condition. The aim of this study was to examining of the effect of patient evidence-based ambulation on pain after inguinal hernia surgery in Imam Hossein (AS) Hospital in Shahroud.Materials and MethodsThis is a single-blind clinical trial. In witch the study population was with hernia surgery in 2017.60 patients were divided into experimental and control groups by random allocation. Data collecting was done by the help of demographic forms and visual simulation scale of pain. Data were analyzed using SPSS16 software and Kolmogorov, Fisher, Friedman’s chi-2 and Wilkason tests.Findings The pain intensity among the experimental group's participants was less than control group's at the first step ,before the first ambulation (6.30 versus6.50) At the second step,befor the second ambulation,the experimental group s participants suffered from less pain intensity in comparison with the control group (5.40 versus6.83) and also the pain intensity at the third step was less in experimental group than the control group (5.27 versus7.00) At the fourth stepbefore the fourth ambulation,the experimental group's participants felt a less pain intensity than the control group's patients (5.37versus6.57) At the fifth step,befor dismissal,the adnauseam intensity in the experimental group was also less than control group (3.57 versus 5.77) Conclusion The research results shows that evidence based ambulation, after surgery is accompanied with decreasing the patient's pain intensity.Key wordsInguinal hernia surgery , pain , ambulation , evidence based nursing.
Original Article
Physiology & Pharmacology
Sahar Heydari; Bahareh Amin; Akbar Pejhan; Seyed Jamal Mirmoosavi; Mohammad Mohammadzadeh
Volume 28, Issue 6 , January and February 2022, Pages 911-922
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Background: Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental syndrome with two main symptoms: repetitive behavior and social interaction disorder. Camel milk, due to its antioxidant, immune-modulating, anti-inflammatory, and anti-apoptotic properties maybe have beneficial effects on ASD.Materials ...
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Background: Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental syndrome with two main symptoms: repetitive behavior and social interaction disorder. Camel milk, due to its antioxidant, immune-modulating, anti-inflammatory, and anti-apoptotic properties maybe have beneficial effects on ASD.Materials and Methods: Pregnant rats were injected intraperitoneally on day 12.5 of gestation with 500 mg/kg valproic acid. Then male neonatal rats were divided into five groups: Control group, valproic acid group, camel raw milk group + risperidone, and boiled camel milk group + risperidone. For the treatment period, rats have injected with risperidone (0.2 mg/kg) three times a week, and raw and boiled camel milk was given daily (10 ml/kg) for 42 days. Experiments of social interaction and repetitive behavior were measured at the beginning and end of the treatment period.Results: The offspring of mothers who received valproic acid had problems in social interactions, and sociability and social preference indexes were significantly reduced. Repetitive self-glooming behaviors also increased in VPA-rats. The treatment groups improved their social and repetitive behaviors after receiving camel milk and risperidone and were significantly different from the valproic acid and pre-treatment groups. Moreover, sociability and social preference indexes showed an increase after treatment with camel milk. Sociability index, social preference, social preference index, and repetitive behaviors before and after treatment between groups improved significantly (p <0.001) after treatment.Conclusion: Treatment with a camel milk diet improved the main behaviors of autism symptoms, such as social interactions and repetitive movements
Original Article
Aging
Azadeh Hajipour; Maryam Javadi; Mahnaz Abbasi; Isa Mohammadi Zeidi
Volume 28, Issue 6 , January and February 2022, Pages 923-935
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Introduction: The present study was conducted to determine the effect of education on glycemic control in the elderly with type 2 diabetes.Methods: The present study was a randomized controlled intervention that was performed on 110 elderly people with type 2 diabetes by multi-stage random sampling method ...
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Introduction: The present study was conducted to determine the effect of education on glycemic control in the elderly with type 2 diabetes.Methods: The present study was a randomized controlled intervention that was performed on 110 elderly people with type 2 diabetes by multi-stage random sampling method in Mallard city (55 in the intervention group and 55 in the control group). The cases received 2 intensive training sessions and then the training follow-up by sending daily SMS to the mobile phone for a period of three months. Data related to demographic status, anthropometric indices, self-care rate and glucose profile indices of patients were collected before and after the intervention. Data were analyzed using SPSS software version 22 and independent t-test, one-way ANOVA and ANOVA.Results: Comparison of glucose profiles of control and intervention patients before and after three months of educational intervention showed a significant decrease in mean FBS and HbA1c (p
Original Article
Psychology
Toktam Dehghani Bidgoli; Hossein Mahdian; Mehdi Ghasemi Motlagh
Volume 28, Issue 6 , January and February 2022, Pages 936-949
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AbstractIntroduction: Multiple sclerosis is a chronic progressive disease of the central nervous system and is characterized by symptoms of pain and decreased functional capacity. The aim of this study was to compare the effectiveness of emotion regulation skill training and acceptance and commitment ...
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AbstractIntroduction: Multiple sclerosis is a chronic progressive disease of the central nervous system and is characterized by symptoms of pain and decreased functional capacity. The aim of this study was to compare the effectiveness of emotion regulation skill training and acceptance and commitment therapy on cognitive failures and emotional avoidance in patients with MS.Materials and Methods: The present study was a quasi-experimental with a pretest-posttest and follow-up design. Subjects with a age range of 20-20 years and expanded disability status scale (EDSS) of one to 5.5 were selected purposefully and voluntarily and randomly divided into experimental and control groups. In the pre-test-post-test phase and the 2-month follow-up, both groups answered Broadbent and et al. cognitive failure questionnaires and Kennedy et al. emotional avoidance. The collected data were analyzed using SPSS software version 23 and covariance analysis method with repeated measurements.Results: The results of multivariate analysis of covariance with repeated measurements showed that emotion regulation skill training and acceptance and commitment therapy is effective in reducing cognitive Failures and emotional avoidance of multiple sclerosis patients (p
Review article
Pediatric
Nasrin Hashemian Nezhad; Mozhdeh Navinejad
Volume 28, Issue 6 , January and February 2022, Pages 950-958
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Background and purpose: Microphthalmia is defined as the presence of a small eye inside the orbit, which occurs 30 times per 100,000 live births. 11% of which have been reported blind. Microphthalmia is associated with systemic anomalies in more than 50% of cases and has multiple and complex environmental ...
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Background and purpose: Microphthalmia is defined as the presence of a small eye inside the orbit, which occurs 30 times per 100,000 live births. 11% of which have been reported blind. Microphthalmia is associated with systemic anomalies in more than 50% of cases and has multiple and complex environmental and chromosomal causes. And in it chromosomal replication, deletion and displacement play an effective role. This study reports a case of unilateral microphthalmia referred to Shahidan Mobini Hospital in Sabzevar.Case report: A 35-year-old pregnant woman born to a 33-week-old mother with a gestational age of 33 weeks and one day is based on NT sonography. Examination of the left eye's microphthalmia was observed on the first day after delivery.Conclusion: According to the reported case, in order to prevent such a very worrying birth, it is necessary for obstetricians and gynecologists to pay special attention to this point in the periodic examination of pregnant mothers in the second trimester ultrasound of pregnancy and if The pregnant mother was exposed to X-rays or had infectious diseases or other risk factors such as long-term use of thalidomide, warfarin and alcohol, vitamin A deficiency, in addition to ultrasound, it is recommended to perform genetic testing if possible.
Original Article
Educational
Mousarreza Mohagheghnejad; Amir Ashkan Nasiripour; Rouhollah Zaboli; Hossein Damghanian
Volume 28, Issue 6 , January and February 2022, Pages 959-969
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Background: Hospitals, as an important unit in the modern treatment system, using various sources, are responsible for providing, maintaining and promoting health for individuals in the community. In order to perform this important service, it is necessary to meet their needs properly. This study was ...
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Background: Hospitals, as an important unit in the modern treatment system, using various sources, are responsible for providing, maintaining and promoting health for individuals in the community. In order to perform this important service, it is necessary to meet their needs properly. This study was conducted to design a model of factors affecting hospital services supply chain.Materials and Methods: This is a combined (qualitative-quantitative) research in which the opinions of fifteen experts about the hospital supply chain from six provinces of the country were used. After conducting a semi-structured interview, their opinions were collected until saturation and then analyzed. The framework analysis approach was used to determine the effective factors. Using Delphi method, the level of agreement of experts was evaluated.Results: After analysis and coding, finally seven main topics including financial resources, human resources, technologies, induced demand, management, supply and distribution, and construction and equipment were identified. Meanwhile, management (mean 4/42±0/46 and mean rank 5/56) was identified as the most important factor.Conclusion: Although financial or human resources and other factors inside or outside the organization affect the hospital services supply chain, but investing to improve management prevents or reduces the impact of many challenges.
Original Article
Anatomy, Histologyو Embryology
Behrooz Yahyaei; Neda Sheikh Mohammadi
Volume 28, Issue 6 , January and February 2022, Pages 979-981
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Background: Due to the effect of L-arginine analogues on inhibiting nitric oxide synthesis and exercise training as one of the non-pharmacological methods, the aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of aerobic exercise training with garlic extract on changes of cerebellar tissue in rats with induced ...
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Background: Due to the effect of L-arginine analogues on inhibiting nitric oxide synthesis and exercise training as one of the non-pharmacological methods, the aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of aerobic exercise training with garlic extract on changes of cerebellar tissue in rats with induced hypertension.Materials & Methods: Rats weighing 200 to 220 gr and hypertension at 10 to 12 weeks of age responding to the main symptoms of hypertension were selected. The rats will be divided into 6 treatment groups after a period of injection of L_NAME that results in hypertension. Balance and motor coordination test was performed after 8 weeks of exercise using Beam Walking Test. The treatment groups were given orally garlic and sorbide extracting.Results: In the hypertensive group, white matter and gray matter had some amount of hypertension associated with cellular distribution in the granular area. In Purkinje cells, degenerative cellular changes are observed.Endurance training group did not show any significant changes compared to control group. The endurance training group and the garlic extract retained some meningeal detachment along with some blood accumulation, and the sorbide group in the purkinje cells degenerative changes such as bold cytoplasm and unspecified nucleus are seen.Conclusion: Hypertension causes moderate changes in the purkinje layer and mild changes in the granular layer, as well as mild hyperemia in the cerebellar tissue and the sorbide and garlic extract alone, as well as markedly reduced exercise training.
Original Article
Health and environment
Ramezan Sadeghi; Mehraban Sadeghi; Rahman Abdizadeh; Morteza Sedehi; Morteza Hashemzadeh Chaleshtori; Shahrbanou Parchami Barjui; Mohammad Rasoul Asadi Amirabadi
Volume 28, Issue 6 , January and February 2022, Pages 982-994
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Backgrounds: Similar to some organic materials the heavy metals are not easily removed from the environment because of the toxic nature and form a class of stable and non-biodegradable pollutants. These elements enter the nature and the food chain as a result of natural activities such as eruptions of ...
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Backgrounds: Similar to some organic materials the heavy metals are not easily removed from the environment because of the toxic nature and form a class of stable and non-biodegradable pollutants. These elements enter the nature and the food chain as a result of natural activities such as eruptions of volcanoes and human activities such as mining, producing industrial and urban wastewaters and applying pesticides.Materials and Methods: In this study, chrome (VI) -resistant bacteria were isolated from the industrial wastewater taken from Isfahan Mobarakeh Steel Complex. The isolated strains were identified and their resistance to chromium was determined and the strain with the highest resistance to chromium was used for its bioremediation.Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and one way ANOVA.Results: The results of this study led to the identification of five chrome resistant strains that the Micrococcus luteus SEHD031RS bacterium was detected as the best chrome resistant strain due to the minimum inhibitory concentration of 140 mgL-1 and minimum bactericidal concentration of 152 mgL-1. In this study, the highest chromium removal rate of 82.5% was obtained at pH 4, concentration of 30 mgL-1 and 96 hours.Conclusion: The results of this study indicate that the Micrococcus luteus SEHD031RS strain can be used as an effective microorganism in removing chromium from industrial wastewater or environmental bioremediation.