Showing 13 results for Abdollahi
Mr Einollah Molaei, Mr Mohammad Jafar Aghakhani, Mr Ali Akbar Abdollahi, Mr Alireza Shariati, Dr Ramin Taj Bakhsh,
Volume 7, Issue 2 (11-2010)
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Background and Objective : Recirculation rate is essential for the quality of Hemodialysis . Since the treatment of patients is based on the Dialysis Adequacy, the evaluation of recirculation is especially important. This study was performed with the aim of measuring arteriovenous fistula recirculation and its relationship with some factors in Hemodialysis patients.
Material and Methods: In this Descriptive-Analytical study, all Hemodialysis patients (n=100), in Panje Azar Hospital of Gorgan, whose vessels were accessed by arteriovenous Fistula was studied in the summer of 2009. In order to determine recirculation rate ، we used urea based classic method. The cut point of recirculation was considered 10%. The variables studied are Fistula longevity ، direction of needle insertion ، the space between needles and the place of needles fistula and KUF filteration. Data were analyzed by using descriptive statistics and logistic regression test (odds ratio and ci reported) in the SPSS software.
Results: Patients were male (53) and female (47) with the mean age of 50.93± 17.23. The mean year of Dialysis history was 4.04 ± 5.04. Fifteen percent of patients had recirculation. Average access recirculation of all patients was 0.067 ± 0.118. Recirculation rate had significant relationship (P <0.05) with direction of two Arterial-Venous needle and the place of the two needles ، which may have been higher.
Conclusion: Considering the results of this study, we conclude that emphasis should be applied on instructing correct needle insertion in order to decrease recirculation
Mr Ghanbar Rouhi, Mr Hamid Asayesh, Mr Hossein Rahmani, Mr Ali Akbar Abdollahi,
Volume 7, Issue 2 (11-2010)
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Background and Objective : Human resources are the most valuable sources of an organization. Nurses, because of special nature of their job, are influenced by various stressors affecting on their job satisfaction and organizational commitment. The aim of this study was to compare Nurses’ job satisfaction and their organizational commitment in intensive care and general wards of Golestan University of medical sciences.
Material and Methods: In this descriptive & analytical study, 389 Nurses were selected via census sampling in 1387. The instrument were job satisfaction questionnaire reliabled by alpha chronbach and meyer organizational commitment scale.To analyze the data, we used Pearson correlation coefficient, independent test, regression and one way anova in spss 16 soft ware environment.
Results: Participants were between 22-55 years. Their mean age was 32.6 ± 7.4 and most of them (72.7%) were female. Intensive care and emergency wards’ Nurses had the lowest organizational commitment and job satisfaction, respectively. There was a significant relationship between job satisfaction and organizational commitment in studied wards (P<0.05).
Conclusion : Whereas job satisfaction can predict organizational commitment of Nurses, it is essential for administrators to consider factors such as salary, participation in decision making, job security, and job enrichment and so on to promote quality of services
Mr Hamid Asayesh, Mr Ali Akbar Abdollahi, Mr Seyyed Yaqob Jafari, Mis Mahnaz Rezaiean,
Volume 8, Issue 1 (10-2011)
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Background and Objective: Student's mental health is one of the effective factors on academic achievement and it seems that the experience of university environment leads to some changes in it. The aim of this study was the assessment of Golestan medical university students' mental health, when they enter university and after one year.
Material and Methods: In this descriptive and analytical study,the mental health of 132 students of Golestan university of medical sciences were measured in two times. The first was in entrance to university and the second was after one year.The date was gathered by a demographic data sheet and general health questionnaire (GHQ-28). Statistical analysis was done in SPSS-16 software environment,using descriptive statistics, spearman correlation coefficient, paired T-test and independent T-test.
Results: The subjects aged19.89 ± 1.22 are both boys(n=43,32.6%) and girls(n=89,67.4%). In entrance to university, 22% of students are indicaled as an inappropriate mental health.Paired T-test indicated that students' total mental health score and its subscales (somatic symptom, anxiety and sleep disorder, social dysfunction and depression) has no significant difference in two measurements(P>0.05).Based on independent T-test, the second measurement of mental health is not significant between dormitory residents and non dormitory students, and between native and nonnative students (P>0.05).
Conclusion: According to our finding, in first year of university, student's mental health has no special changes. Small sample size and lack of follow up in later years of university can be our study limitation.
Ali Akbar Abdollahi, Shahzad Mehranfard, Naser Behnampour, Dr Abdolmohammad Kordnejad,
Volume 9, Issue 2 (1-2013)
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Background and Objective: Cardiac angiography, which is widely used in Iran, is a diagnostic and therapeutic procedure for cardiac diseases. The patients suffer from back pain due to complete bed rest after angiography. Thus, this study aimed at determining the correlated factors with the severity of back pain after cardiac angiography in Dr. Ganjavian Hospital of Dezful, 2011.
Material and Methods: In this correlational study, 140 candidates of cardiac angiography were selected via convenience sampling. We used a checklist to collect the data about age, sex, body mass index(BMI), smoking, high blood pressure, diabetes and duration of angiography, which are the influential factors of the severity of back pain. Then, the severity of back pain was measured at first, second, fourth and sixth hour after angiography, using a numerical scale of pain assessment.To analyze the data, we used descriptive statistic, Mann Whitney and Spearman correlation.
Results: The subjects are males (N=67), females (N=64) and smokers (12%). The mean age is 55.7±7.7, and body mass index is 27.6±3.07. None of them has history of back pain and previous angiography. Based on Spearman, there is no significance correlation between back pain of 1, 2, 4, and 6 hours after angiography and factors such as age, BMI and duration of angiography. Man Whitney test indicates a statistical significance between gender and severity of pain in the first hour (Z=-2.17) and sixth hour (Z=-2.4) after angiography, whereas there is no statistical significance in the second, fourth and fifth hour after angiography. As well, there is no significant correlation between back pain and variables such as smoking, diabetes and hypertension.
Conclusion: The findings showthat the nurses by being aware of related factors to back pain severity can try to reduce the pain and promote the patients’ convenience.
Hossein Rahmani Anaraki, Mehri Farhan Ranjbar, Ali Akbar Abdollahi, Naser Behnampour,
Volume 10, Issue 1 (4-2013)
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Background and Objective: Injection of subcutaneous low molecular weight heparin often causes some local reactions such as bruising, hematoma, and pain, directly related to inappropriate injection method. This study aimed at determining the effect of injection duration of Subcutaneous Enoxaparin Sodium on the size of bruising and the severity of injection pain.
Material and Methods: This experimental study was conducted on 36 patients medicated by subcutaneous Enoxaparin Sodium (60mg). They were randomly divided into two groups. The first group received routine method of subcutaneous anoxaparine injection (10 second duration injection technique) and in the second group in addition to routine method, “10 second waits” before removing needle was performed. Data collection was carried out by using a researcher-made check-list consisting of a section for demographic data and a section to record the extent o f bruising and pain intensity. The Extent of bruising was measured by using a clear flexible ruler within 24, 48 and 72 hours and pain intensity by visual analog scale (VAS) ,immediately after injection.We analyzed the Data by independent T test and Chi square.
Results: The Results indicate that the mean of pain intensity in second group (3.05 ± 1.71) is less than first group (3.86 ± 2.75).There is no significant difference between two groups for the extent of bruising in 24, 48 and 72 hours (P>0.05).
Conclusion: with regard to pain intensity and the size of the bruising, the two groups are not significantly different.
Ali Akbar Abdollahi, Seyyed Abedin Hosseini, Dr Aref Salehi, Gholamreza Vaghari, Naser Behnampour,
Volume 10, Issue 2 (10-2013)
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Background and objective: Cardiovascular disease is the leading problem of the elders. It is progressive disorder that is initiated in childhood and its clinical demonstration is revealed after middle-aged period. This study aimed to determine the relationship between coronary artery disease- related risk-factors and aging.
Material and Methods: This descriptive-analytical study was conducted on all 772 elders referring to Kosar Angiography Center in Golestan province, 2008-2009. The subjects were divided into coronary disorder group and normal group. The risk factors including age, gender, body mass index (BMI), blood pressure, diabetes mellitus, smoking and drug addiction were assessed. The data was analyzed by SPSS-16, using Mann-Whitney and T-test.
Results: Most of the subjects were between 65 to 75 years. Of the three main vessels, the most involved one was circumflex (31.5%). The factors such as gender and systolic hypertension were significantly different in two groups. Furthermore, the Risk ratio in the patients with systolic hypertension (1.13 times) and the ones with diastolic hypertension (1.11 times) was more than normal group.
Conclusion: Gender and systolic hypertension in the elders with CAD are the main and predisposing factors. Therefore, if we control hypertension, it may be possible to prevent from the CAD progress.
Dr Gholam Reza Mahmoodi Shan , Hosein Rahmani, Ali Akbar Abdollahi, Dr Mohammad Ali Vakili, Houralnesa Sheikh, Hosein Nasiri,
Volume 11, Issue 1 (5-2014)
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Background and Objective: There is an inevitable relationship between nurses' health and their lifestyle. Therefore, we intended to determin nurses’ lifestyle and its' relationship with some personal- professional characteristics.
Material and Methods: This descriptive-analytical investigation was conducted on 391 nurses selected via multi-stage random sampling in the Hospitals affiliated to Golestan University of medical sciences. The data was collected by a nurses lifestyle questionnaire having 6 subscales (internal consistency α=0.87 and stability r= 0.897). The data was analyzed by SPSS16 soft ware using independent t test, Kruskal-Wallis, Mann-Whitney U and chi-square tests( p<0.05).
Results: Of 391 , 20.2% were male and 79.2% female, and 85.4% have worked in rotation shift. The nurses (36.3 %) working experience was 6-10 years. The majority (78.1%) had optimal lifestyle. The highest score belonged to competency subscale (92.17%) and the lowest to personal life management subscale (64.82%). There was a significant relationship between a number of lifestyle subscales and some personal-professional characteristics such as nurse position,
Employing condition, work shift, overtime, night shift and holiday shifts (p≤ 0.05).
Conclusion: There is a relationship between nurses' lifestyle and some of the personal-professional status. Given that some professional conditions can decrease the personal life management and the role management of healthy lifestyle, we recommend that managers should be careful about working programs to provide healthy lifestyle.
Maryam Mansoor Bostani, Ali Akbar Abdollahi , Ganbar Rouhi , Navisa Sadat Seyedghasem, Millad Mansoor Bostani, Farnaz Abdollahi ,
Volume 14, Issue 2 (9-2017)
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Background: School age is a sensitive period in the child growth. Backpack weight has an important impact on physical growth and neuromuscular development of the children. Regarding this, the present study was conducted to determine the ratio of backpack weight to body weight and investigate its relationship with some factors among the elementary school students of Gorgan, Iran, within 2013-14.
Methods: This cross-sectional descriptive-analytical study was conducted on 258 elementary school students of Gorgan, Iran, in academic year of 2013-14. The participants were selected via stratified random sampling. The data were collected using a digital scale, a meter, and a checklist. The body weight and height of the students were measured once in the presence of the researcher. Data analysis was performed using the Mann-Whitney, Kruskal-Wallis, and analysis of variance through the SPSS version 16.
Results: According to the results, 57.4% of the participants were female. Regarding the bag type, the backpack and other types of bags, such as file-box, had the highest (89.5%) and lowest (0.8%) frequencies, respectively. The mean ratio of students’ bag weight to their body weight was 9.4±3.78. Furthermore, the ratio of bag weight to body weight had a significant difference (P<0.001) between the two groups of boys and girls, between the various school levels, and also between the different school bag types. Nevertheless, there was not a significant difference in bag weight considering the parental occupation. Moreover, the most common pain and discomfort was found to be in the neck (27.3%).
Conclusion: Although this study indicates that the ratio of bag weight to students’ body weight is in the standard limit, but neck pain was common, and this issue could be considered and taught in school schedules by managers of educational settings.
Rezaali Mohamadpour, Nasser Behnampour, Fateme Abdollahi, Amenesadat Sheykholeslami, Zahra Mehrbakhsh, Somaie Barzanuni,
Volume 14, Issue 2 (9-2017)
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Background: Breast milk is the most suitable nutrition for the neonates. Breast milk and breastfeeding duration can contribute to decreased mortality rate, intestinal bleeding, and various neonatal diseases (e.g., digestive and respiratory diseases). It can also reduce the risk of diabetes and obesity in childhood and adulthood. Therefore, the estimation of breastfeeding duration and recognition of the effective factors in this regard can lead to designing and implementing appropriate programs, which can provide the foundations for the modification of breastfeeding behavior.
Methods: This survival study was conducted on 501 mothers with healthy and single birth neonates born within March 21, 2011-September 21, 2012 with active medical records in Aqqala city, Golestan province, Iran, in the second half of 2014. The data were collected from the information registered at the archives of health centers by in-person visiting. In addition, some of the information was collected through phone contacts. The duration of breastfeeding was estimated in month. Data analysis was carried out using the Cox regression in the STATA software, version 11.
Results: According to the results, the mean and median of breastfeeding were 20.44 and 22 months, respectively. According to the Cox regression, maternal ethnicity, living with family, birth spacing, type of milk consumed along with complementary nutrition, and type of neonatal nutrition during the hospital stay of the infant had a significant relationship with the early cessation of breastfeeding.
Conclusion: Based on the findings of the present study and the identified factors affecting the breastfeeding duration, it seems necessary to provide the essential trainings for the young mothers and pregnant women to avoid of reducing the duration of breastfeeding. These educations can be included in the programs of the Health centers of the universities and urban and rural medical clinics.
Hamideh Mancheri , Shohreh Kolagari , Mahnaz Modanloo, Habib Abdollahi, Mohammad Aryaie ,
Volume 15, Issue 1 (2-2018)
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Background: The effect of new teaching method on study skill of students results in a significant improvement in learning performances. The aim of study was to determine the effect of Team-Based Learning on study habits of nursing students.
Methods: The quasi-experimental study with a before-and-after design was conducted on nursing students of Golestan University of Medical Sciences in 2015. 101 students participated in this study through census sampling considering the inclusion criteria. The data was collected using Palsane and Sharma Study Habits Inventory (PSSHI) before and after intervention. The intervention was 16 sessions (a two-hour session per week) Team-based learning. The data was analyzed in SPSS-20 software using paired t-test.
Results: Finding showed that most of the students were female (60.3%), and single (95%) with mean age of 21.47±1.5 years. When students were stratified into four groups based on the quartiles of the distribution of study habit, the number of students who had poor study habit decrease after intervention (%5.6) and the number of students with excellent study habit increase after intervention (%3.8). In addition, the mean and standard deviation scores of students' study habits of before and after the intervention were 42.53±7.46 and 48.75±8.94, respectively, which was significantly different (P<.005).
Conclusion: The results showed that Team-Based learning improved their study habits, but the majority of students had poor study habits. In order to improve the study habits of students, student-centered learning is recommended
Tayebeh Abdollahi, Nasibeh Zanjari, Yadollah Abolfathi Momtaz , Ahmad Delbari,
Volume 18, Issue 1 (5-2021)
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Background: According to the World Health Organization, aging anxiety decrease life expectancy and causes disease in old age. Negative attitude towards the older adults is a major factor associated with aging anxiety. Therefore, the present study aimed to determine the relationship between attitudes towards the older adults and fear of aging in the health care providers of Social Security Organization’s hospitals in Mazandaran province in 2018.
Methods: We conducted the present cross-sectional study on 232 health care providers of hospitals of Social Security Organization in Mazandaran province in 2018, selected them by stratified random sampling according to the job categories, and included them in the study. We utilized the Anxiety about Aging Scale (AAS) by Lasher and Faulkender and Kogan's Attitude toward Old People Scale (KAOPS) to collect data. We analyzed the data in SPSS16 using Pearson correlation, independent t-test, and one-way analysis of variance.
Results: The participants' mean age was 37.85±6.40 years and the mean of aging anxiety was 67.90±10.60. Among the four subscales of aging anxiety, the highest fear was related to "fear of loss" (23.7±4.5) and then "fear of physical appearance" (21.25±4.65), and the lowest was related to "fear of the older people " (10.12± 3.25). Despite the slightly higher mean aging anxiety among nursing and midwifery staff than medical staff, it was not statistically significant. Findings indicated that aging anxiety had a negative and significant relationship with attitudes towards the older adults in health care providers (r=0.35, P=0.001).
Conclusion: Given the high aging anxiety in health care providers and its importance in providing services for the older adults as well as the quality of their old age, we suggest promoting the health care providers’ positive attitudes towards the older adults through in-service training courses.
Fariba Abdollahi, Seyede Soghra Taher Harikandeie, Leila Dehghankar, Zahra Tayebi Myaneh, Simin Zarrabadi Pour,
Volume 19, Issue 2 (9-2022)
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Background: Inadequate health literacy has negative effects on physical and mental performance, medication adherence, self-care behaviors and quality of life . The impact of health literacy on different aspects of illness perception in patients with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is not clear. Therefore, the present study aimed to determine relationship between health literacy and illness perception in patients with MS.
Methods: This was a correlational study on 100 patients with MS who had been referred to neurology clinic of Abu Ali Sina Hospital in Qazvin (Iran) in 2017-2018. The subjects were enrolled via convenience sampling. A demographic information questionnaire, the Newest Vital Sign (NVS) health literacy instrument, and the brief illness perception questionnaire (BIPQ) were used to collect data. The data were analyzed in SPSS (version 22) using descriptive statistics, the Pearson correlation coefficient, and linear regression model.
Results: Adequate health literacy level was found in 11% of patients; 26% had a possibility of limited health literacy and 63% had a high likelihood of limited health literacy. The mean illness perception score was 35.53±1.31 (moderate). There was no significant relationship between health literacy and the mean score of illness perception (r=-0.014, P=0.894). However, there was a significant relationship between perception and recognition of present illness, as a subscale of illness perception with health literacy (r=0.243, P=0.015). Variables in the multi-variate predictive model accounted for 37.6 % of the total variance in heath literacy. Duration of illness perception significantly predict health literacy (B=0.052, P=0.035). Moreover, the only predictor of illness perception in patients with MS was income level (B=87.87, P=0.05), which explained 35.7% of the illness perception changes.
Conclusion: Based on the results, illness perception is significantly associated with health literacy. Therefore, it is necessary to promote health literacy in order to improve understanding the nature and consequences of the disease and conduct further research on the relationship between health literacy and illness perception among patients with MS.
Azam Mohammadi Sangsari , Ghanbar Roohi, Zahra Sabzi, Ali Akbar Abdollahi , Naser Behnampour ,
Volume 20, Issue 2 (10-2023)
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Background: Swift diagnosis and treatment of cardiac patients can avert unnecessary hospitalizations. Emergency departments routinely assess patients using the Emergency Severity Index (ESI) method. This study compares the effects of two triage methods, cardiac triage, and ESI, on the admission time of acute coronary syndrome patients.
Methods: This intervention study aimed to enhance the quality of therapeutic interventions through an intervention design featuring a control group. The research sample comprised all patients referred to the Sayad Shirazi Educational and Medical Center triage unit in Gorgan, Iran. All patients were randomly allocated into two groups: the control group (23 patients) and the intervention group (46 patients), utilizing a simple random allocation method. The control group underwent triage using the Emergency Severity Index, whereas the intervention group received cardiac triage. Triage forms and time-related indices were completed for both groups. Statistical analysis was conducted using descriptive statistics, the Shapiro-Wilk, and the Mann-Whitney tests to compare these characteristics between the two groups, utilizing SPSS version 18.
Results: Significant statistical differences were observed between the two groups in several aspects: the average time from the emergency department to the cardiac intensive care unit (p < 0.001), the average duration of presence of a cardiac specialist physician (p < 0.001), the average time from arrival to triage room exit (p < 0.001), and the average hospitalization time (p < 0.001). These time intervals were shorter in the cardiac triage group.
Conclusion: Implementing specialized cardiac triage for cardiac patients plays a pivotal role in reducing response times. Cardiac triage can furnish the medical team with more comprehensive information, thereby improving the management of these patients in the emergency department.
