Prevalence of depression in personnel of Zanjan University of Medical Sciences

Depression has been assumed as a prevalent disorder of the era. Depression cannot be attributed to a particular social class. Factors such as incompatible situations may lead to mental disorders and affect physical immunity. This study was carried out to investigate the prevalence of depression among the staff of Zanjan University of Medical Sciences. This study was of cross-sectional type study whereby 693 subjects were selected through classified randomized sampling. The rate of depression incidence was obtained using Standard Beck Questionnaires. The data was analyzed by Chi-2 tests and cohesion indexes of Kramer and Gama were also used. According to the results of this study 40% of the personnel were suffering from depression. They were identified as 23% with low depression, 13% with moderate depression, and 4% with severe depression. A significant correlation was found between depression and education level, type of settlement, and city where they worked. Regarding the widespread prevalence of depression among the staff, planning and organization of consultation sessions by the authorities is suggested

[Prevalence of depression in personnel of Zanjan university of medical sciences]

Depression has been assumed as a prevalent disorder of the era. Depression cannot be attributed to a particular social class. Factors such as incompatible situations may lead to mental disorders and affect physical immunity. This study was carried out to investigate the prevalence of depression among the staff of Zanjan University of Medical Sciences. This study was of cross-sectional type study whereby 693 subjects were selected through classified randomized sampling. The rate of depression incidence was obtained using Standard Beck Questionnaires. The data was analyzed by Chi-2 tests and cohesion indexes of Kramer and Gama were also used. According to the results of this study 40% of the personnel were suffering from depression. They were identified as 23% with low depression, 13% with moderate depression, and 4% with severe depression. A significant correlation was found between depression and education level, type of settlement, and city where they worked. Regarding the widespread prevalence of depression among the staff, planning and organization of consultation sessions by the authorities is suggested

[ efficacity of two procedures [lecturing and story telling] on knowledge and attitude of the third grade boy pupils in Shahrekord on accident prevention]

Accidents and injuries are complicated phenomena being interfered by many factors in their appearance. In recent years, extensive measures are fulfilled on assigning appropriate educational contents and applied educational methods for accident prevention and immuny promotion. In spite of its high prevalence, severe disability and high mortality result from accidents and injuries between all age groups, particularly pupils in elementary schools. So the role of education by using appropriate methods will be important in this regard. This study was accomplished with aim of considering the efficacy of education by two procedures [lecturing and story telling] on knowledge and attitude of the third grade boy pupils on accident prevention. In this quasi experimental study, 150 pupils were selected from 5 schools by simple random sampling. Then the pupils were interviewed before and after training [14 knowledge questions and 9 attitude questions]. Afterward, demographic variables such as parents job , parents literacy, birth place and number of children were extracted from their history records. Then the information was analyzed by T Test, independent sample test, Anova test, spearman correlation and descriptive statistical indexes. There was a significant relationship between the pupils knowledge and the literacy of their parents. Also there was a significant reversed relationship between their birth place and number of family members. The results showed that knowledge and attitude promotion with story telling procedure is more important than lecturing procedure. In this study it was demonstrated that using proper and efficient methods on health education for pupils such as story telling or other active educational methods is perfectly effective and it can promote the level of knowledge and attitude of the people