[Effect of Depo-Provera on depression rate in the women referring to the health center of Babol city]

In the recent century, rapid growth of population is a threat to human life. Family planning has been of great benefit to family health. Thirteen million women in the world use Depo-Provera as a contraceptive method. Different studies have reported development of depression in Depo-Provera users, and some articles reported that they are ineffective on mood. Therefore assessment of Depo-Provera effects on mood is important. Depression in women can lead to physical, psychological and social reactions. Therefore we decided to assess the effect of Depo-Provera on depression rate in the health center of Babol City. This study was a Quazi-experimental study. 64 women completed a questionnaire consisted of demographic data before Depo-Provera injection and also Beck Standard Questionnaire before and 3 months after Depo-Provera injection at the health center of Babol City. For data analysis we used Wilcoxon and Fisher's exact tests. Mean score of depression symptoms before Depo-Provera injection was 6.50 +/- 8.2 but three month after injection it was 4.50 +/- 6.6 which had a significant difference [p=0.001]. Age, education, satisfaction of husband's job, husband's literacy, husband's aid at home, satisfaction with the marital life, family class, family income, child abortion history, outcome of recent pregnancy, satisfaction in relationship with parents in childhood, satisfaction in relationship with family members, support from the family and relatives, satisfaction in relationship with friends and worrisome events during the last year showed no significant relationship with depression before and after Depo-Provea injections. But satisfaction with husband's family [p=0.034] and history of depression [p=0.026] had a significant relationship with depression before loss of independency and depression before and after Depo-Provera injection [p=0.024, p=0.001]. The results of this study showed lack of deterioration of depression by Depo-Provera injections. Therefore appropriate consultation can lead to increased use of Depo-Provera

[Frequency of risky behaviours among students in Babol Universities [2009]]

The safety of teenagers and young are the major factor in developing a community and they are also the major group at risk of behavioural problems. So, this study was performed to evaluate the prevalence of risky behaviours among different university students in Babol, located in Norther of Iran. This cross sectional study was carried out in a random sample of 882 Babol university students including medical university, university of engineering and Azad University with roughly equal sampling ratio with respect to university and gender. The data was gathered by a designed questionnaire including demographic characteristics, physical involvement with others [violence], cigarette smoking, drug abuse, physical inactivity, overweight and obesity. In statistical analysis the Chi square test was used to determine the association of risky behaviours with demographic characteristics. The results revealed that in general the prevalence of physical involvement with others [violence] during a recent year was 33.3% current cigarette smoking 13.7%, overweight and obesity 25.6%, physical inactivity 15.3% and drug user during recent year 0.3%. In general, the prevalence of some risky behaviour was more in boys than girls [P<0.001], and it was more in single than married [P<0.001] and in residence of dormitory and rented houses than personal houses [P<0.001] and also in engineering and Azad university in contrast to medical university [P<0.001]. For example, the prevalence of cigarette smoking was 25.7% in boys and 3.6% in girls [P<0.001]. This study showed a rather high frequency of risky behaviours among students in Babol city in North of Iran

Psychological symptoms in infertile people referred to babol infertility center

Studies showed that, infertility is known as a stressful incident and infertile men and women are exposed to many stresses. Thus, physicians who treat these couples should be aware of the effects of these stresses to use appropriate therapeutic procedures to reduce the stresses of the infertile couples during the treatment. This is a descriptive-analytic and cross-sectional study. The study has been done by means of a demographic questionnaire and a SCL-90-R test on 452 infertile people who referred to Fatemeh- Zahra infertility Center in Babol from March 2002 to November 2003. According to this study 213 people [47.1%] showed the symptoms of the psychiatric disorders, among which 66.2% and 33.8% were women and men, respectively. Most of the symptoms were due to the paranoid thoughts [44.4%] and interpersonal sensitivity [38%], while the least of them were related to the psychosis [18.14%] and phobia [17.04%]. The most prevalent was between 20 to 26 years. Most patients had education lower than diploma [60.1%], also their infertility has lasted for about 4-6 years. Most of them were housewife women and men with optional jobs and living in the city. According to the presence of high percentage of the psychiatric disorders symptoms among the infertile couples, specially the more number of the women being affected by this problem, more attention and psychological supports are required besides the other therapeutic managements