Several observations have addressed high rates of occupational burnout among personnel of emergency medical services (EMSs) centers. Occupational burnout influences EMS personnel's well-being and quality of life. The main objective of this study was to assess burnout and its determinants among Iranian EMS personnel. This study was carried out at all EMS centers in two provinces of Kermanshah an...

BACKGROUND Visceral leishmaniasis (VL) or kala-azar is a parasitic disease caused by the species of Leishmania donovani complex. It is endemic in some parts of provinces of Iran. According to the reported cases of VL in Kermanshah Province in recent years, this study was conducted to determine the seroprevalence of VL in high risk villages of the province. METHODS Totally, 1622 serum samples ...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the effects of acetazolamide on the ischemia-reperfused isolated hearts of 2- and 8-week-old rabbits. METHODS This study was conducted at the Kermanshah Medical Biology Research Center, Kermanshah, Iran from March to September 2011. Two- (n=17) and 8-week old (n=17) rabbits were separately divided into 2 control (n=9), and test (n=8) groups. Isolated hearts were subje...

Linguatulosis is one of the important zoonotic diseases that cause public health problems worldwide. This study was carried out from March 2014 to February 2015 to estimate the prevalence of nymphal stages of Linguatula serrata in ruminants of different sex and age slaughtered at the Kermanshah municipal abattoir, in western Iran. For this purpose, the mesenteric lymph nodes (MLNs) were examine...

Background: Hepatitis B (HB) is one of the important common occupational diseases, and health care workers are most at-risk groups. The current study aimed to investigate best psycho-social predictors HB preventive behaviors among nurses by using theory planned behavior (TPB). Methods: research was a cross-sectional study. An anonymous self-reported scale according TPB determinants distributed ...

Aims: Frequent investigation of the patient for determining sedation level is one of the main measures in care of critically ill patient especially after heart surgeries. Riker scale is a valid and reliable tool which has been used in different studies as sedation-agitation scale in patients hospitalized in Intensive Care Unit (ICU). This study had been done with the aim of “investigating the e...