Quality of Life of Elderly Living in Nursing Homes in Shahrekord

Background & Aim: Increasing elderly population has led to increased attention to the concepts of health and quality of life in the past decades. The present study aimed to determine The Relationship of Socioeconomic Factors and quality of life among elderly living in nursing homes in Shahrekord. Materials & Methods: The present research was a descriptive-analytical study which was conducted on 254 elderly of living in nursing homes in Shahrekord. The participants were selected using Convenience sampling. The required data were collected through a two-part questionnaire (demographic variables, LEIPAD questionnaire) and then statistically analyzed using descriptive statistics and analytical tests (Pearson correlation and ANOVA analysis) in SPSS-18. Results: The age of 43.3% of the elderly was 60-70 years. Based on the results, the mean score of quality of life for men was 64.25±17.05 and women 46.23±17.64. There is a direct and significant relationship between the mean score of quality of life and sex and economic status (p=0.001). Conclusion: The results showed that the elderly had a medium of quality of life. it is necessary to have a approach to help elder people to advance and maintain public health and quality of life. Keywords: Socioeconomic Factors, Quality of Life, Elder Peopl

The Main Patterns in the Trend Change of Stomach Cancer Incidence amongst Selected African Countries

Aim. The current study aimed to investigate the trend changes of stomach cancer incidence amongst African countries and identify the main patterns. Methods. The annual reports of stomach cancer incidence rate (per 100,000 people) for males and females in 53 African countries from 1990 to 2016 were maintained from the World Health Organization archive. The growth mixture model was used for fitting the models in Mplus 7.4. The estimated linear trend in each pattern was characterized by intercept (the rate at 1990) and slope (the observed biennial trend changes), and finally, each country was grouped into a cluster with the most similar pattern. Results. Three main patterns for males and two main patterns for females were determined. For males, the first cluster, containing Cape Verde, Central African Republic, and Mauritius, showed a sharp fall, while countries in the second pattern including Algeria, Cote d'Ivoire, Egypt, Gambia, Libya, Malawi, Morocco, Namibia, Nigeria, and Tunisia were categorized in a pattern with a slight decrease, and other 43 countries were in the third pattern with a moderate falling trend. For females, 19 countries including Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Congo Republic, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Kenya, Mali, Mauritius, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe, Sudan, Swaziland, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe were categorized in the moderate-to-high falling pattern, but the other 34 countries had a gentle downward pattern. Conclusion. Although most of the observed trends of stomach cancer were falling, only a few countries had experienced a favorable decreasing trend (three countries in male incidence and nineteen countries in female incidence). Therefore, taking effective actions to accelerate the observed falling trends seems necessary

Prevalence of Pathological Lesion Due to Mild Head Trauma in Computed Tomography Scan of Patients’ Brains

Background and aims: This study investigated the prevalence of pathological lesions on the computed tomography (CT) scans of the brains of patients with mild head trauma based on the New Orleans-Canadian criteria at Shahrekord Ayatollah Kashani Hospital, Iran. Methods: All patients referred to the Emergency Department of Shahrekord Ayatollah Kashani Hospital in 2019 with a history of head trauma were included in this cross-sectional, descriptive-analytical study according to the criteria of mild head trauma. Then, the relevant checklist was used to record the patients’ level of consciousness, demographic information, and cause of trauma. Finally, the data were analyzed using SPSS 18, and the patient’s lesions were reported accordingly. Results: Out of 143 patients, 89 were males, and 54 were females in this study. Falling from a height was the cause of head trauma in most patients (43.3%). Among all patients, the CT scans of six patients were abnormal and had lesions. The vomiting had a significant relationship with the results of the CT scan, and for patients with mild head trauma, the Canadian and New Orleans indices had the same clinical importance. Conclusion: According to the results of the present study, the New Orleans index could identify more patients as CT scan candidates than the Canadian index; however, there was no difference in the final result (the presence of a pathological lesion in the CT scan) between these two indices. The New Orleans index has more features than the Canadian index, but its results are not different from the Canadian index. Thus, we believe that using the Canadian index can reduce imaging rates, costs, and protection from the side effects of radiation