[Stress in senior managers of kohgilouyeh and boyrahmad province]

Stress is a collection of reactions against incompatible and unexpected internal and external factors. Since the manager of any organization is exposed to stress more than other personnel. The present study was performed to determine the rate of stress in senior managers and their assistants in Kohgilouyeh and Boyrahmad province. In this descriptive, cross-sectional study, all the 134 senior managers and their assistants were recruited through a stress questionnaire. The questionnaire included six physical, individual, cultural, occupational, familial domains, and physical conditions of job environment. It was revealed that the avarage rate of stress was 54.88, and 34.3% of the subjects appeared to experience high stress. Occupational stress [58.73] appeared to be the most stressful domain and physical stress [41 .43] was the least stressful one, respectively. Violation from regulations, success of the opportunists, and showing discrimination toward the referrals turned out to be the most stressful options. Since in this study the occupational dimension had created the highest degree of stress in the managers, it appears that the greatest and most effective step in decreasing the managers' stress is perhaps accurate supervision, appropriate encouragement and finally due punishment proportionate the managers' performance

[Women's level of knowledge, attitude and practice about osteoporosis in Yasouj 2006]

Osteoporosis is a multifactor chronic disease that is recognized by low bone concentration and substructure disorder of bone tissue and is a major health problem. This disease is preventable and curable to a large extent by recognition of attitude, daily habits living method, etc of people .So, this research was done in order to determine the women's level of knowledge, Attitude and practice about Osteoporosis so that an important work for the health of this great group of society. In this descriptive study, 320 women 15-65 years old from Yasouj referred to the health centers in the year 2006 were studied. Using convenient sampling method, data collection was done through a questionnaire including individual characteristic [age, education level, marriage and employment status] and three parts of knowledge, attitude and practice. Data analysis was done using SPSS software and descriptive statistical and Mann- whitney tests to study the relation between basic variables and level of knowledge, attitude and practice of samples. Results showed that, from employment point of view, 226[70.6%] of samples were housekeeper and 94[24%] were employed, from education point of view, 318[68.4%] illiterate or primary and 102[31.6%], had diploma or higher levels. the knowledge of 41.0%of samples was medium, attitude of 72.3% was positive and practice of 64.3% was good. Regarding the relation between basic variables and level of knowledge, attitude and practice of samples, there was a meaningful relation between employment and practice [p<0.05], in such a way that, persons who were out at work had a better practice and there was direct linear relation between knowledge and education level, but no relation existed between knowledge and attitude. Considering the results of the research, extending women's education by general communications gynecologists, health centers and family health personnels regarding the Osteoporosis prevention measures such as proper food habits, abstaining from alcohol, smoking and bone erosive drugs, proper physical activity, using of calcium rich diet, being exposed to the sunlight and using of hormonal and non -hormonal drugs are suggested