Comparison of the efficacy of massage and aromatherapy massage with geranium on depression in postmenopausal women: a clinical trial

Depression exacerbates the physical problems in menopause in addition to influencing the individual, occupational and social functioning of women. This study was conducted to determine the effect of aromatherapy massage on depression in menopausal women. In this clinical trial, 120 menopausal women were selected based on the inclusion criteria and were randomly divided into three groups namely control, aromatherapy massage and massage group. Data collection tool in this study was demographics questionnaire and the Beck Depression Inventory [BDI]. In aromatherapy massage group, essential oil of geranium [2%] in almond oil was used. Both groups were treated for 8 weeks, once a week for 30 minutes and their depression rate was assessed before and after the intervention and were compared with the control group. ANOVA and t-test were used for data analysis. Aromatherapy massage reduced the mean depression score [MD: 0.51, 95%CI]. Massage therapy also reduced depression score [MD: 0.20, 95%CI] [P < 0.001]. To detect the effects of aromatherapy and massage therapy separately, the mean depression score was compared and aromatherapy massage reduced the depression score more than massage therapy [MD: -0.31, 95%CI]. The results of this study consider aromatherapy massage beneficial in improving symptoms of depression and recommend it as a complementary therapy

Study of relationship between different kinds of finger print and blood pressure in infected and non-infected patients afflicted with blood pressure, hospitalized at Ali Ebn Abitaleb Hospital in Rafsanjan, in second half of 2002

Conceding the wide effect of high blood pressure on different organs of body and its different complications and as this disease doesn't have any signs and people don't aware about their dieses when they are affected by finger print and modifying the association between that and finger print, it is possible to diagnose the disease on them and take the right treatments. In this research which was case-control research we collected fingerprints from 100 persons that were at Ali-Ebn-Abitaleb Hospital and 100 normal persons that the same paper is used and characteristic in two group classified in 3 categories: whirl Arch loop and from the SPSS and t-test method was made for statistic analysis. Results showed from 2000 samples of finger print that were taken from 100 persons that had blood pressure and 100 persons that didn 't have blood pressure, the average loop fingerprint in blood pressure group was 3.82 +/- 2.27 and in non blood pressure group 6.5 +/- 1.81 that has the significance deterrence [P value=0.023]. The average Whirl fingerprint in blood pressure group was 4.73 +/- 2.59 and in none blood pressure group was 2.29 +/- 1.93 that has the significances difference [P value= 0.002] and the average arch finger print in blood pressure group was 1.43 +/- 1.55 and in none blood pressure group was 1.04+0.93 that has the significance difference. [P value=0.0001]. Among fingerprints and high blood pressure are relationships and on the basis of the resolutions of research possibility of taking to high blood pressure in people that have whirl fingerprint is more