[Assessment of relationship between characteristics of psychiatric patients escaping from Razi psychiatric hospital]

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

[Workplace violence status, vulnerable and preventive factors among nurses working in psychiatric wards]

Introduction: Workplace violence is one of the issues that nurses face in clinical practice, which needs to be studied. One of the most eventful clinical environments is a psychiatric ward. The aim of this study was to determine workplace violence status, vulnerable and preventive factors among nurses working in psychiatric wards

Materials and Methods: In this study, 183 nurses were selected from psychiatric wards in Razi Psychiatric Center in Tehran, by simple random sampling. Data gathered with [International Workplace Violence Questionnaire]

The questionnaire contains 4 subscales, physical, mental, sexual and rational violence and three open ended questions. Content and face validity were measured by opinion of experts and reliability was confirmed by test-retest [r=0.73].Data analyzed with descriptive statistics methods by SPSS/18

Findings: Prevalence of workplace violence was 71% in one year period. Physical and psychological violence, respectively, with a frequency of 4.93% and 6.71%, respectively racial and sexual violence, respectively, with a frequency of 1.19%, and 5.5% lower than subjects who had suffered violence. Majority of samples' reaction [39.9%] was to calm the aggressive person. Furthermore, most of them [61.2%] supposed that providing educational course of violence control and 59.6% thought that providing a management system to report control is necessary

Conclusion: Psychiatric nurses permanently exposed to a variety of physical and verbal violence. Providing function for prevention is suggested

[Symptomology of patients with obsessive compulsive disorders when referring to clinical centers in Tehran]

Different cultural habits through creating different beliefs and attitudes can affect phenomenology and prevalence of symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorders. This descriptive study was conducted among patients to determine symptomology of obsessive disorder Referred to clinical centers in Tehran with emphasis on culture. In this descriptive study 103 patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder were selected through non accidental sampling [quota, convenience]. Yale Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale with an open-ended question was used in this study. Convergent and test-retest were also conducted in order to determine the validity and reliability. Data have been analyzed by SPSS software. The results showed that the most common symptoms of obsession in Iranian patients respectively, Included contamination obsession [92.23%], miscellaneous obsessions [66.99%] and physical obsession [57.28%] and the most common symptoms of compulsive respectively, Include miscellaneous compulsive [78.64%], Cleaning and washing [73.78%], and Sift [64.07%]. The overall pattern of Symptomology obsessive-compulsive disorder in this study sample is consistent with the observed pattern in Western and Eastern cultures in some countries, so that the main features of obsessive-compulsive disorder was relatively independent of cultural variables and only exception is content of OCD in which cultural factors may play a significant role