Khajenasiri F, Sotoudeh G,
Volume 65, Issue 14 (Vol 65, Supplement 2 2008)
Abstract
Background: Healthy vision of workers is one of the important elements in carpet weaving
industry which has essential role in improving of the job quality and efficiency. Visual acuity
is the primary outcome measure in most studies involving eye diseases. Ihe aim of this study
was determination of visual acuity and its effective factors in women carpet weaver in fordu
rural area of Qom has been investigated.
Methods: In a cross-sectional (descriptive-analytical) study visual acuity of 177 women
carpet weaver has been determined. Job hours per day, job history, age, literacy, trauma
history, diabetes history, family history of eye diseases, eye diseases history and family size
of subjects were determined .
Results: The results of study indicated that the right eyes visual acuity of 72.4 % of women
were desirable (0 – 0.8) and 27.6 % were undesirable (0.9-1.2). These results for the left eyes
were 69.5 % and 30.5 % respectively. In addition, the result showed that with increasing the
job hours and history and age, percent of women with undesirable both eyes visual acuity
were increased. With higher literacy levels, percent of women with undesirable both eyes
visual acuity decreased. In subjects with truma history, the undesirable visual acuity was
higher. In this study the relation between visual acuity and job history, age, literacy, truma
history and eye diseases history were statistically significant (in all cases P<0.05).
Conclusions: High percentage of women carpet weaver were in undesirable visual acuity
and in this study the relation between visual acuity and job history, age, literacy, trauma
history and eye diseases history were statistically significant (in all cases P<0.05).
Karolin Abashzadeh , Fereydoun Siassi , Mostafa Qorbani , Fariba Koohdani , Negin Farasati , Gity Sotoudeh ,
Volume 74, Issue 12 (March 2017)
Abstract
Background: Nurses are prone to continuous stress due to their job situation that lead to many physical and psychological disorders. this job stress also affects their personal life and career. The aim of this study was to evaluate the association between major dietary patterns and anthropometry in nurses.
Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional study from February to October 2014. In this cross-sectional study, 320 female nurses were selected randomly from eight hospitals affiliated to Tehran University of Medical Sciences in 2014. This research project carried out with the code 24371 Tehran University of Medical Sciences in Research Ethics Committee approved. Anthropometry and blood pressure measurement was done. Data on physical activity were obtained using the short version of international physical activity questionnaire.
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Results: Three dietary patterns were identified using factor analysis and labeled: healthy, unhealthy and traditional. The healthy dietary pattern score was significantly related to weight and body mass index (BMI) of participants after adjusting for confounders (P=0.05, P=0.01, respectively). There was not significant association between the unhealthy dietary pattern and anthropometry measures. The unhealthy dietary pattern score was inversely related to systolic and diastolic blood pressure after adjusting for confounders (P=0.001, P=0.03, respectively). There was not any significant association between the traditional dietary pattern and anthropometry and blood pressure measures (P>0.05).
Conclusion: According to the result of this study, three dietary patterns including, healthy, unhealthy and traditional were identified in nurses. The healthy dietary pattern was associated with weight and BMI and the unhealthy dietary pattern was inversely associated with blood pressure. The traditional dietary pattern had no effect on anthropometry and blood pressure measures.
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