Journal of biology and today’s world

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Authors: Naeimeh Dastgahdar1, Golrasteh Kholasehzadeh2, Naser Dashtei2, Mehdi Mirzaei-Alavijeh3

Psychiatric illness is one of the major causes of disability and social functioning decrease. Today in most communities due to lack of re-sources, a significant part of the responsibility to care and maintenances of psychiatric patients are in the families responsibilities. One of the most important health issues and problems is Familial misbehavior. Therefore, this study conducted with aimed to determine the prevalence of familial misbehavior at mania and schizophrenia patients hospitalized in Taft psychiatric center. Simple randomized meth-od conducted this descriptive study between 122 selected patients. Data collected by questionnaire in two parts; demographic (9 ques-tions), physical and psychological misbehavior (22 questions) by a general medicine in the interview. Data were analyzed in SPSS-11 by using the descriptive statistics and chi-square test in (α=0.05). Mean age of Patients was 35.22±12.29 years, 69 persons (56.5%) were male, 53 persons (43.5%) women. 59 persons (48.4%) manic disease and 63 persons (51.6%) had a schizophrenia. 80 persons (65.6%) have experienced physical misbehavior, 96 persons (78.7%) psychological, 109 persons (89.3%) physical and psychological, only 13 persons (10.7%) did not experience any misbehavior. Householder patients, manic and men most experienced physical misbehavior. Prevalence of physical and psychological misbehavior was 89.3 percent. Importance of attention and adopting is necessary in educa-tional preventive approach in family.

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Authors: AliReza Dehghani1, Leila Rezaei2*, Farzan Kianersi3, Masume Azadi4, Mohammad Mahbobui5

Evaluation of epidemiological factors and the contributing factors in occurrence of penetrating ocular trauma in patients under the age of 16. This descriptive - analytical study was carried out on 100 children affected by penetrating eye trauma, who were referred to ophthal-mology emergency room, Feiz Hospital, in one year. For each patient, age, gender, time and place of occurrence of trauma, education level of parents, being alone at the time of trauma, and the type of trauma were recorded and analyzed. The mean age of patients was 7±3.8 years (2-16 years old), and of the patients evaluated, 69 patients were male. The trauma occurred at home in 57 cases, and 47% of injuries took place in the morning. Knife was the most common cause of injury (26%). Twenty nine patients were alone at the time of trauma. The most frequent type of injury was corneal laceration. All the traumas were unilateral. Careful observation of children by par-ents, particularly in the morning, plays an important role in decreasing the number of penetrating traumas. Moreover, supervising out-door activities and games is of great importance.