Women's Health
Zainab Alimoardi; Narges Shirazi Haji Miriha; Lisa Astrologo; Nasim Bahrami
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AbstractBackground and aims: Midwives experience a high level of stress due to heavy workloads, which hasbeen shown to have adverse effects on well-being. Accordingly, the main goal of this study was toassess the predictors associated with a healthy lifestyle in a sample of midwives working in hospitalsand ...
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AbstractBackground and aims: Midwives experience a high level of stress due to heavy workloads, which hasbeen shown to have adverse effects on well-being. Accordingly, the main goal of this study was toassess the predictors associated with a healthy lifestyle in a sample of midwives working in hospitalsand health centers of Qazvin, Iran.Methods: A total of 200 midwives were recruited using convenience sampling method. Each subjectcompleted a demographic questionnaire, the Farsi version of the Health Promoting Lifestyle ProfileQuestionnaire, and Perceived Social Support Questionnaire. A multivariate linear regression modelwas used to assess the predictors of health promoting lifestyle (HPL).Results: Spiritual growth (2.78 ± 0.53) and nutrition (2.79 ± 0.45) had the highest scores among HPLsubscales. Conversely, subjects had the lowest score in physical activity (2.02 ± 0.64). Multivariateregression analyses showed that workplace (β = -0.19, P = 0.03), involving in professional sports(β = 0.2, P = 0.01), and perception of an adequate social support network (β = 0.47, P < 0.001) were thestrongest predictors of HPL. These predictors accounted for 27% of the variance in the model.Conclusion: Considering the predictive role of three variables including workplace, involving inprofessional sport, and having adequate social support, HPL interventions can be designed andimplemented. Improving working conditions, strengthening social support networks, and increasingphysical activity might be beneficial measures to improve midwives’ HPL.
Women's Health
Zahra Shamekhi; Mahtab Keshvari
Volume 4, Issue 2 , Spring 2017, , Pages 104-110
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Background and aims: It is well known that dyslipidemia is related to cardiovascular disease, dietary aspect and obesity play an important role in CVD risk factor. In the present study, we investigated the relationship between calorie intake, anthropometrical parameters and serum lipids in apparently ...
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Background and aims: It is well known that dyslipidemia is related to cardiovascular disease, dietary aspect and obesity play an important role in CVD risk factor. In the present study, we investigated the relationship between calorie intake, anthropometrical parameters and serum lipids in apparently healthy women. Methods: The subject were 90 healthy women aged between 20-55 who were taken part in diabetes screening plan of Shiraz University of Medical Sciences in 2011 anthropometric measurement were done by standard methods. Lipid profile was measured after 10 to 12 hours overnight fasting. Dietary calorie intake was assessed using 24h food recall. The bivariate associations between variables were examined with the Pearson correlation analysis and comparison of the calorie groups was done by t-test. Significance was accepted at P<0.05. Results: No significant relationships were seen between calorie intake, anthropometric measurements and serum lipids. Although TG level was positively correlated with BMI (r=0.4, P=0.000), WC (r=0.408, P=0.00) and WHR (r=0.33, P=0.003). Conclusion: Higher calorie intake was not significantly correlated with cardiovascular risk factor including Higher BMI,WC,WHR and abnormal serum lipids, but higher BMI,WC,WHR were directly associated with TG in healthy people. Although the association between these parameters and TG may be explained by insulin resistance, the lack of a significant association between anthropometric measurements and LDL in healthy people and limited studies in relation to net calorie and these variables remains an unexpected finding requiring further investigation.
Women's Health
Yousef Veisani; Ali Delpisheh; Kourosh Sayehmiri
Volume 2, Issue 4 , Autumn 2015, , Pages 178-183
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Background and aims: According to psychological research female-headed households have a lot of physical and mental problems because they experience stress and anxiety more than the other women in general population. The aim of this study was to determine the quality of life and the associated factors ...
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Background and aims: According to psychological research female-headed households have a lot of physical and mental problems because they experience stress and anxiety more than the other women in general population. The aim of this study was to determine the quality of life and the associated factors in female-headed households under the Welfare Organization coverage of Ilam Province. Methods: In this descriptive analytical study, 787 female-headed households under the Welfare Organization coverage of Ilam in urban and rural in Ilam province participated in this study. Systematic random sampling was used as a sampling method. A validated questionnaire (SF-36) completed in a six-month interval and then the data were collected and analyzed. Results: From 787 female-headed households contributing to the project, the numbers of missing subjects were 79 and 708 of the subjects completed the questionnaires (response rate 89.9%). Mean ± SD age of participants was 53.3±19.18. The results of this study showed an unfavorable health related quality of life in female-headed households spatially in role–physical (mean score 48.06) and mental health (mean score 40.80) demission. We found that having the chronic disease and living in rural area were associated with an unfavorable health related quality of life (P≤0.001). Conclusion: According to the results, the most important reason affecting the quality of life in female-headed households is low level of illiteracy and having a chronic illness.
Women's Health
Ashraf Direkvand-Moghadam; Ali Delpisheh; Azadeh Direkvand-Moghadam; Parvaneh Karzani; Parvin Saraee; Zahra Safaripour; Nasim Mir-Moghadam
Volume 2, Issue 1 , Winter 2015, , Pages 4-11
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Background and aims: Infertility is a major problem during reproductive age. Physical and psychological effects of infertility in women are problematic. The aim of this study was to determine the potential predictive factors of infertility, among women referring both public and private health centers ...
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Background and aims: Infertility is a major problem during reproductive age. Physical and psychological effects of infertility in women are problematic. The aim of this study was to determine the potential predictive factors of infertility, among women referring both public and private health centers in Ilam province, western Iran, in 2013. Methods: In this cross-sectional study, 1013 women referring the health care centers of Ilam province were enrolled in 2013. The participants were selected by simple random sampling method and their demographic, medical and obstetric variables were collected. The univariate and multiple logistic regression analyses were used to predict the potential risk factors of infertility. Results: The husband’s education and occupation showed to be suitable independent predictor variables for infertility by multivariate logistic regression analysis (OR: 1.36 and 2, respectively). Overall percentage of correct classification of the model was 88.7%. It means that, considering the husband’s education and women’s occupation, the ability of the model to predict the actual category of the cases was 88.7%. Conclusions: It seems that husband education level and women occupation are independent predictive variables. The women at risk of infertility have to be identified and high-quality counseling should be given in order to minimize the complications of infertility in both genders.
Women's Health
Ashraf Direkvand-Moghadam; Zeynab Ghazanfari; Ali Montazeri; Ali Delpisheh; Azadeh Direkvand-Moghadam
Volume 1, Issue 1 , Autumn 2014, , Pages 29-34
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Background and aims: Pelvic organ prolapse (POP) is a common condition which affects on a large proportion of women. The objective of this study was to determine the risk factors of POP in Iranian women. Methods: This cross-sectional study was carried out to examine the role of demographic, anthropometric ...
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Background and aims: Pelvic organ prolapse (POP) is a common condition which affects on a large proportion of women. The objective of this study was to determine the risk factors of POP in Iranian women. Methods: This cross-sectional study was carried out to examine the role of demographic, anthropometric and clinical characteristics in POP disease in a sample of 365 females in Ilam, Iran. Examinations were performed according to Pelvic Organ Prolapse Quantification (POPQ) technique in dorsal lithotomic position. Then, the sample divided into two groups as with and without prolapse. Then, unilabiate and multivariate analyses were performed. Results: Totally, 365 women participated in this study. The prevalence of POP was 80.8%. Univariate logistic regression analysis showed a significant differences between groups with and without POP based on age, maximum birth weight, BMI, pregnancy, delivery mode, delivery operative and delivery position. But after multivariate analysis, the most significant factors identified as risk factors for POP were age (OR= 1.12, 95% CI= 1.02-1.23, P= 0.02), normal vaginal delivery (NVD; OR= 6.18, 95% CI= 1.43-26.75, P= 0.01) and episiotomy (OR= 30, 95% CI= 5.69-158.11, P= 0.000). Conclusion: Findings of the study showed that several risk factors could collaborate in creating of POP. However; body mass index and number of pregnancies are modifiable factors. So, maternal care providers should educate women for maintaining the ideal weight and decreasing the number of pregnancy in order to prevent POP.
Women's Health
Ashraf Direkvand-Moghadam; Kourosh Sayehmiri; Ali Delpisheh; Azadeh Direkvand-Moghadam
Volume 1, Issue 1 , Autumn 2014, , Pages 35-43
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Background and aims: Infertility is one of the most important conditions in reproductive system and there is no reliable estimates for global prevalence of infertility. Therefore, knowing the prevalence of infertility is important and can be effective in decision making. Methods: We systematically reviewed ...
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Background and aims: Infertility is one of the most important conditions in reproductive system and there is no reliable estimates for global prevalence of infertility. Therefore, knowing the prevalence of infertility is important and can be effective in decision making. Methods: We systematically reviewed all published papers in Medline database and Scopus (1988–2010). Univariate and multivariate approaches were applied to assess the causes of heterogeneity among the selected studies. Meta-regression was used to examine the relationship between the prevalence of infertility and the year of study. Data manipulation and statistical analyses were performed using Stata 11.1. Results: The study population was not similar in all papers. Studies evaluated the prevalence of infertility in the general population, the total female population, women and couples. Some studies defined infertility as failure to conceive within 12 months of regular sexual life without contraception methods while other studies defined it as failure to conceive within 24 months of regular sexual life without contraception methods. Overall, 52 studies met our inclusion criteria and the pooled worldwide of infertility was obtained about 10%. The correlation between prevalence of secondary infertility and year of study was significant (P=0.039). Conclusions: Approximately 10% of the world's population suffers from infertility. Due to the negative impact of infertility on couples in various aspects of life, and the need for treatment and support programs, accurate estimate of infertility is essential worldwide.