for most people iterance to hospital is a disturbing experience and expects that nurses be sensitive to patient's physical, emotional and social need at admission. whereas interrupt of sleep due to physical, psychological and social status damage, knowing about effective mechanisms in retention and disturbance of sleep – wake cycles help nurses to make natural criteria for their patient&ap...

INTRODUCTION Noise is one of the most extensive environmental factors affecting the general population. The present study is focused on the association between discomfort caused by noise and the incidence of certain diseases (ischaemic heart disease, stroke and hypertension). MATERIALS AND METHODS This cross-sectional questionnaire study, conducted in 10 cities in the Czech Republic, comprise...

The PMV index forms the basis of international thermal comfort standards. was developed based on empirical relationships between metabolic rate activity and body mean skin temperature evaporative heat loss under conditions. However, many recent studies have questioned accuracy reliability predictions, particularly for discomfort range. This paper develops a general formulation that does not inv...

Abstract
 
 Background : Pregnancy is a transition between life before and after the birth of child. These changes are considered as period undergoing preparation process both physically psychologically, complaints caused by an enlarged abdomen, anatomical hormonal will cause in pregnant women such low back pain, swelling cramps legs, this discomfort causes sleep disturbances affect f...

Purpose: To describe and explore carer quality of life (QoL) night-time attendance to their child in parents non-ambulant youth with Neuromuscular Disorders.Methods: A cross-sectional population-based, comprehensive survey including the Adult Carer QoL (AC-QoL) questionnaire, measures social context youths’ physical status. Associations between carer-QoL or frequency parents’ independent variab...

background: the aim of this study was to evaluate the relation of intensity of low back discomfort with two factors that contribute to low back pain -ergonomics risk factors and psychosocial factors- most seen in emergency unit nurses. methods: this cross-sectional survey was conducted on 120 emergency unit nurses in isfehan. for daily assessment of psychosocial and ergonomics factors and inten...

T he intensive care unit (ICU) is an extremely stressful environment where anxiety is prevalent, pain frequent, rest difficult, and sleep often impossible. Relief of pain and anxiety is often neglected while efforts focus on immediate life-threatening concerns. A growing awareness of ICU imposed stress and the increasing popularity of some modes of mechanical ventilation such as extended ratio ...

UNLABELLED Obstructive sleep apnea and hipoapnea syndrome (OSAHS) is a disorder that affects about 4% of the adult population, and besides the social problems associated to snoring and extreme day time sleepiness, it is preoccupying since it may cause pulmonary hypertension and cardiac failure. REVIEW AND DISCUSSION Through a literature review, we discuss the use of oral appliances to treat t...

background: although sleep disorders are common problems among families and they affect the learning, memory processes and academic performance of children, there is no evaluation of these disorders in iran. the aim of this study was to assess the prevalence of sleep disorders and its association with academic performance of school age children.materials and methods: a cross-sectional study was...

BACKGROUND COPD patients who develop chronic hypercapnic respiratory failure have a poor prognosis. Treatment of choice, especially the best form of ventilation, is not well known. OBJECTIVES This study compared the effects of pressure-controlled (spontaneous timed [ST]) non-invasive ventilation (NIV) and NIV with intelligent volume-assured pressure support (IVAPS) in chronic hypercapnic COPD...