جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه « آسانسور » در نشریات گروه « پزشکی »

This study was done in order to assess the appropriateness of elevators of public/private buildings located in Mazandaran province. This was a cross-sectional study done in summer 2010. Examined buildings were randomly selected when there were many samples, however, all were assessed if were unique or less than 4 such in the cities. A check list was developed according to governmental standards. Content validity was obtained by consultation with experts and consumers. Reliability was tested by "test-re-test" method (using Pearson correlation Coefficient, r 0.77). Thirty five hundreds buildings in 4 categories (educational, health care related, community services, residential and leisure places) were assessed with 4 items regarding the function and services to provide. Items were included: presence of sliding doors, enough space of lift for accommodating at least one wheelchair, appropriate height and place of the order button in/out of the elevator, palpable button for use by blind handicapped. Scales for evaluation were as; existed/none existed. Data entered the SPSS (16) software to analyze. One thousand and three hundreds and ten community service (CS), 1010 residential / leisure places (RLP), 830 health care related buildings (HCR) and 350 educational buildings (EB) were evaluated. In 93% of CS, 94% of RLP, 92% of HCR and 83% of EB, the mentioned criteria were not met. Despite the existence of a dedicated legislation for comply; the vast majority of elevators were not suitable for the disabled. Needed corrections are necessary and essential.

Today oro-dental health is one of the health problems in our country and throughout the world. One of the useful educational methods is using appropriate educational posters. This research studies the effects of educational posters and charts on knowledge and attitude of addressee about oral health. This study was a quasi experiment research. Ten units of apartments in different areas of Isfahan city was selected as research sample (126 persons) in 2008 (five units as case and five as control group). The intervention was done by installing educational posters and charts in the lift and on the apartment’s board. Data collected by a questionnaire in two stages before and after the educational posters and charts use and analyzed by statistical analytic tests using SPSS software. 62.5% of samples were women and 37.5% were men. Diploma graduated were 43%, more than the other degrees. Inappropriate level of knowledge and attitude were present in 25.8% and 86.7% of participants, respectively. The rank of scores of knowledge and attitude before and after education did not have significant difference between case and control groups (P>0.05). Since educational posters and charts did not have enough efficacy to promote the knowledge and attitude about oro-dental health, it is better to use them with other educational methods.