Showing 6 results for BEHESHTI
S Beheshti, Gr Rezaian, K Aghasadeghi, Z Faghiri, M Aghajan Shakeri,
Volume 15, Issue 2 (8-2001)
Abstract
Over a 10-year period, l30 consecutive cases of brucellosis were encountered
and were prospectively treated and followed. Twenty-one cases were children
and the remainder were adults. There were 93 males and 37 females with a
male: female ratio of 2.5 to one. The age range of the patients was from 2 to 74
years with a mean of 30 years. Fifty-five percent of cases were from rural areas
and the rest from major cities of the Fars province. The disease was most frequently
seen during spring and summer. Although it was seen in ranchers and
farmers who usually deal with small ruminants in our country, it was also frequently
seen in those with other professions. Animal contact was common (33%)
as well as consumption of raw unpasteurized milk and fresh cheese which was
seen in almost half of the cases. Fever and sweating were the most common complaints
and arthritis and splenomegaly were the most frequent physical findings.
Bilateral sacroiliac joint involvement was the most common arthritic disorder
and was exclusively seen in adults. Knee and ankle joint involvement was commonly
seen in children. They were unilateral and monoarticular in their presentation.
Seven cases had orchitis and one pregnant lady developed second trimester
abortion. Treatment with conventionally recommended antibiotics was successful
in all except two cases who had relapse secondary to an inadequate course of
drug therapy. The two, however, responded to another course of full term antibiotic
therapy with full recovery.
In contrast to western countries were cattle and swine are the most frequent sources
for human brucellosis, sheep and goats are the most common source of infection in our
country. Here, the disease is not an exclusively occupational one for young adult males and
an indirect oral route of disease transmission is quite frequent. Brucellosis, therefore, affects
both children and adults of either sex, with a wide age range. Prohibition of ingestion
of raw milk: and fresh cheese as well as control of Brucella melitensis infection in sheep
and goats can significantly reduce the burden of disease in our country.
Jaleh Zolghadri, Shahrzad Ghotbi, Mahmood Beheshti,
Volume 20, Issue 1 (5-2006)
Abstract
ABSTRACT
Background and Objective: To assess the diagnostic value of hysterosalpingography (HSG) in the evaluation of the uterine cavity in recurrent aborters in comparison to hysteroscopy as the gold standard of diagnosis.
Methods: 58 reproductive age women, all with habitual abortion (3 consecutive abortions), were examined by both HSG and hysteroscopy.
Results: The overall sensitivity and specificity of HSG was 18.75% and 82.2%, respectively. The false positive and false negative results of HSG were 17.8% and 81.25%, respectively, and the positive predictive value for HSG is, therefore, 37.5%.
Conclusion: Regarding very low sensitivity, specificity and high falsenegative rates of HSG, it is concluded that it has low value in detection of uterine cavity abnormalities in habitual abortion and hysteroscopy should be used as the gold standard method for diagnosis in these patients.
Maryam Beheshtian, Ardeshir Khosravi, Alireza Olyaeemanesh, Hossein Malekafzali, Shirin Bonakdar Esfahani, Leila Hosseiny Ghavamabad, Saeideh Aghamohammadi, Mahnaz Nouri, Elaheh Kazemi, Mohammadreza Zakeri, Fatemeh Sagha,
Volume 29, Issue 1 (1-2015)
Abstract
Background: An obvious gradient in health outcomes has been implicated in many evidences relating to social and economic factors. Proper data are requested to convince policy-makers calling for intersectoral action for health. Recently, I.R. of Iran has come up with 52 health equity indicators to monitor health equity through the country. Conducting regular surveys on 14 out of 52 national health equity indicators is needed to provide a basis for the health inequality analysis through the country. We aimed to introduce a survey tool and its related protocols on health equity indicators.
Methods: This study was conducted through addressing the literature and expertise of health and demographic surveys at the national and international levels. Also, we conducted technical and consultative committee meetings, a final consensus workshop and a pilot study to finalize the survey tool.
Results: We defined the study design, sampling method, reliable questionnaires and instructions, data collection and supervision procedure. We also defined the data analysis protocol on health equity indicators, generated from non-routine data.
Conclusion: A valid and reliable tool, which could be employed at the national and sub-national levels, was designed to measure health equity in Iran. Policy-makers can use this survey tool to generate useful information and evidence to design appropriate required intervention and reduce health inequality across the country.
Masoud Mirzaei, Mehran Karimi, Shima Beheshti, Masoud Mohammadi,
Volume 31, Issue 1 (1-2017)
Abstract
Background: The prevalence of asthma and allergy has increased during the last decades, especially in children. However, little is
known about it in the Middle East region. This systematic review is aimed to estimate the prevalence of asthma among the Middle
Eastern children.
Methods: Local and international scientific databases including SID, Iranmedex, Medline and Science Direct were systematically
searched for relevant keywords including; asthma, prevalence, children, International Study of Asthma and Allergies in Childhood
(ISACC) and the names of Middle Eastern countries for the period of 1996-2011. Papers in Persian and English which met the defined
criteria were included into the study. Bibliographies of the extracted articles were also searched. After extraction of data, heterogeneity
between studies and publication bias were measured using Egger's-test. Effect size was pooled by the random-effect model. Since significant
heterogeneity was found between studies, univariate meta-regression analyses were done to assess the association of variables
with the overall results.
Results: Fifty studies in the Middle East examined the prevalence of asthma and allergy in children under the age of 18 years according
to the ISAAC criteria and were included. A total number of 289,717 children were examined in the included studies and the prevalence
varied from 0.7 % in Isfahan to 22.3 % in Bagdad. The total prevalence of diagnosed asthma was calculated 7.53 % (95% Cl:
6.38-8.75). Prevalence of asthma in the 13-14 years age group was 7.57% (95% Cl: 5.78-9.29) and in 6-7 years age group was 7.43%
(95% Cl: 5.75-9.10). The prevalence of asthma among girls, based on random effect model, was 6.30% (95% Cl: 4.97-7.61) and
among boys, it was 8.91% (95% Cl: 6.80-11.04).
Conclusion: The prevalence of asthma in the Middle East is lower than most developed countries. However, there is not enough
longitudinal data to estimate the trend over time. In order to have more accurate estimates and to provide evidence for proper planning,
standard epidemiologic studies should be conducted in countries of the region.
Nasrin Motazedian, Mehrab Sayadi, Shohreh Beheshti, Nooshin Zarei, Javad Ghaderi,
Volume 34, Issue 1 (2-2020)
Abstract
Background: Street children around the world are accompanying a wide range of risky behaviors. The most common ones include risky sexual behavior, substance and alcohol abuse, and violence. This study aimed to assess risk behaviors and HIV knowledge of street children in Shiraz.
Methods: A total of 329 street children (7-18 years of age who spend days or nights on streets with or without their family for earning money) were interviewed through 2014-2016 in Shiraz. Data were collected through a structured interview about high-risk behaviors and HIV/AIDS Knowledge based on a form and questionnaire. Street children were asked to identify HIV/AIDS mode of transmission. All correct answers were scored as one (1), and incorrect, “don’t know” responses and no responses scored as zero. The data were analyzed by SPSS software 16 (SPSS, Inc. Chicago, USA) using the Independent t-test and chi-square test, and Pearson's correlation test. P value< 0.05 was considered as statistically significant
Results: The mean ± SD age was 13.46±3.09. A total of 86.6% of them were boys. A total of 97.6% of them reported staying with their parents. Street children reported sleeping place as follow: with their parents (n=312, 94.8%), sharing accommodation with other kids (n=13, %4), sleeping in parks (n=2, 7%), and one with relatives. The frequency of smoking, alcohol drinking, and drug abuse were 35 (10.6%), 47 (14. 3%), and 6 (1.8%) respectively. A total of 43 (13.1%) street children reported sexual activity, among them 30 (9.1%) had sexual activity without a condom. Mean ± SD HIV/AIDS knowledge scoring of street children was, 4.1±3.9.
Conclusion: Special programs should be implemented in order to reduce high-risk behavior among street children. Intervention should include increasing awareness about alcohol and drug abuse, HIV/AIDS knowledge, sexual and verbal abuse through an organized system with the help of peer education.
Masoud Mohammadi, Gholamreza Roshandel, Seyed Javad Ghazimirsaeid, Marzieh Zarinbal, Molukosadat Hosseini Beheshti, Fatemeh Sheikhshoaei,
Volume 36, Issue 1 (1-2022)
Abstract
Background: Mapping scientific trends is one of the most important missions of scientometric research for effective research. The main goal of this paper was to visualize and draw the intellectual and cognitive structures of information retrieval (IR) in the medical sciences using science mapping.
Methods: In this cross-sectional scientometric study, we recruited all documents indexed in the Web of Science database with the topic of storing and retrieval of information in medical sciences. To analyze the results, 3 software, SciMAT-v1.1.04, VOSviewer-v1.6.14, CitNetExplorer_v1.0.0, were used.
Results: Our results showed that most scientific productions in this field fall into 2 categories: (1) effective methods of organizing information and (2) application and operation of the IR system in the process of intelligent questioning and answering, and analyzing information behaviors of physicians and health professionals. The results showed that the similarity index increased over time from 0.43 to 0.71. Analysis of the findings showed that similarity measures, expert systems, concepts, experience, answers, and multimodel IR clusters were considered as mature and completely centralized clusters in the first quarter of the strategic chart.
Conclusion: Because of the dramatic approximation of the vocabulary used by researchers and a relative slowdown in the growth rate of the subject's domain in the last decade, it seems necessary to pay attention to the expansion of the fields of IR and the application of its concepts in medical information sciences. Also, it can be recommended that designers of IR systems and techniques in medical information sciences pay more attention to human factors attentively to develop new technologies and tools.
