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Introduction: Absconding patients from psychiatric ward is common phenomenon that causes many consequences for community and patient. In order to decrease rate of absconding, it is necessary to know the related factors leading to this event. Thus, this study was conducted at Razi Psychiatric Hospital to determine the related factors leading to absconding of psychiatric patients from Razi Psychiatric Hospital
Methods: In this descriptive study, 117 patients' files were utilized to study by nonrandomized sampling. For data gathering, a questionnaire made by a researcher with approved validity and reliability was utilized and then SPSS has been used to analyze the data
Results: Results indicated that demographic factors such as genders, age, marital status, place of living, education and social factors such as occupational, family role of patient, supportive systems, referral organization and disorder related factors likes psychiatric diagnosis, drug abuse history, absconding history, length of hospitalization, history of re hospitalization in psychiatric units, exit permission, place of absconding, kinds of treatment and factors related to the time of absconding such as time and shift rotation had significant relationship with the rate of absconding
Conclusion: Most demographic, social, disorders factors and also time of absconding had significant correlation with the rate of absconding which is similar to other studies results. Therefore, it can be concluded that absconding preventive plans in psychiatric units can lead to much decrease in the rate of absconding
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Introduction: Depression is one of the most costly diseases of the labor force. Complications of depression has been proved on work absenteeism rates, accurate measurement of individual tasks and Employee Efficiency. This study was conducted with aimed to investigate the depression and its association with demographic variables in the employees of Isfahan University of Medical sciences in 1392
Methods: This is a descriptive - cross-sectional correlation study that was implemented in 1392. 405 employees from Isfahan University of Medical sciences were randomly chosen. Data gathering tool included demographic information form and Beck depression [version-II] questionnaire. The data was analyzed by descriptive statistics, Pearson and Spearman correlation coefficients, student t-Test and Multiple linear regressions with stepwise method applying SPSSv18 software
Results: According to the results of this study 45.92% of the employees were suffering from depression. They were identified as 28.39% with low depression, 15.30% with moderate depression, and 2.22% with severe depression. A significant correlation was found between depression with education level [p=0.002] and work site [p=0.01], but that there was no statistically significant relationship between depression with age, sex, marital status, years of service and type of residence. The results of stepwise regression analysis indicated that the education level in the first model and work site in the second model were regularly the best predictions of the employees' depression, whereas they explained totally 25.7% of the variance of employees' depression
Conclusions: This study showed a high prevalence of depression in employees. Encouraging teamwork, participate the employees in decision-making, supported employment, reduce conflicts and job ambiguities as well as increased job control events with development centers of consultation sessions in university are the helpful measures suggested to control and reduce depression