جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه « Psychological Side Effects » در نشریات گروه « پزشکی »

ackground and This study was designed to compare motives and psycho-somatic effects of blood donation between Tehran and Mahabad as two different cities on culture and socio-economic status.
This cross-sectional study was done in Winter of 2014 on 258 blood donors: 123 in Tehran and 135 in Mahabad. Some days were selected randomly for the donors to be asssessed on those days. The questionnaire contained 44 questions. We used descriptive statistics, mean comparison tests and chi-square using SPSS version 18 to analyze the data.
In this study, 242 men (93.8%) and 16 females (6.2%) participated. The motives for blood donation were altruism (Tehran and Mahabad 93% and 80%, respectively), positive effects on health (Tehran and Mahabad 66% and 80%, respectively), and the health evaluation of blood donors (Tehran and Mahabad 52% and 69%, respectively). Among the short term effects, being useful, alertness, mental peace, and happiness and among the long term effects, the work efficiency, health improvement, and stress reduction had a higher frequency; 6.4% of donors reported negative effects such as loss of work efficiency as an impediment to blood donation.
The main motivation of blood donation was altruism and positive effects of blood donation with the recent impetus asssessed to be higher in Mahabad than Tehran. Most reported effects were mind relaxation, consciousness, happiness, and good feelings with greater frequency in Mahabad than in Tehran.

Patients with thalassemia experience complex symptoms and encounter many physical and mental problems. This problems can affect their quality of life. This study is carried out to find the relationship between psychological characteristics and the quality of life of patients with thalassemia. A cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted to determine the psychological reactions and quality of life of patients with thalassemia in Kerman. The instruments for data gathering were DASS (42) and Quality of life (SF 36). Data analyses were done by central indexes, chi2, ANOVA, and t-test. The results showed that 49.3% were male and 50.7 % female. The age range varied from 15 to 22.6 years. The results of 8 domains of the quality of life indicates that the score of physical domain was higher than the mental domain (p < 0.0001). The results regarding the psychological reactions showed that the patients had levels of “depression, anxiety, and stress” with 44.9%, 53.6%, and 50.7%, respectively. The results also showed there were significant differences between the quality of life and psychological reactions of patients. The results showed the patients were at risk of psychological problems and the poor quality of life in mental domains; thus, all domains of quality of life and mental problems of patients must be considered by caregivers, and holistic care of patients also should be one of the priorities of caring and curing.