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Abstract

 

Introduction: Myocardial infarction is a life threatening event and often reduces the quality of life of patients and their families’ particularly close and intimate persons such as spouses. The aim of study was to determine quality of marital relationship of spouses of patients with and without a history of myocardial infarction.

 

Materials and Methods: This descriptive-comparative study has been done on 162 spouses of patients with myocardial infarction admitted in educational hospitals of Zahedan University of Medical Sciences by convenience sampling method and 162 spouses of healthy persons (324 married individuals). Data were collected by “Perceived Relationship Quality Components (PRQC) questionnaire with approved validity and reliability in Iran. Data was analyzed with SPSS/16.

 

Findings: 42% of the samples were male and 58% female, with an overall mean age of 47.89±5.95, average length of common life 25.32±7.48. In addition, 56.7% of the respondents had diploma or higher education. The results also illustrated that the mean score of quality of marital relationship on the dimensions of satisfaction, passion and love in patient’ spouses with a history of myocardial infarction was 13.37±5.03, 10.67±4.56, 19.56± 2.56 respectively and in healthy persons spouses was 18.92±2.85, 18±3.14, 20.37±1.36. U-Mann Whitney test results determine that these differences are statistically significant (P<0.001).

 

Conclusion: MI disease has a negative impact on the overall quality of marital relationship, especially on the dimensions of satisfaction, passion and love between couples. Hence, the inclusion of family educational programs and couple therapy in heart disease rehabilitation program is important in order to improve the quality of marital relationship and subsequent quality of life patients and their family’s needs.

 

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Introduction: At present, the organization for success, have no choice except to formulate appropriate strategies with human resources otherwise today's complex environment and incompatibility of the strategies will lead to inefficient use of human resources. The aim of this study was to determine the correlation of human resource strategies based on Allen Ylsy Model with organizational performance in Aiat Allah Kashani hospital staff.

 

Materials and Methods: This study is a descriptive-correlation study that was performed on 247 personnel’s of Aiat Allah Kashani hospital in Shahrekord. Stratified samples were randomly selected and collected demographic and researcher’s made “Staff Function Questionnaire on Allen Yelsy Model” in two components for assessing the Allen Ylsy Model and personnel performance were used in 43 questions. Content and face validity of this questionnaire were confirmed through 7 specialists. Reliability was obtained by using Cronbach's alpha 0.92. Data were also analyzed by descriptive statistics and inferential statistical test using SPSS/18.

 

Findings: The results showed that there is a significant solidarity between human resource strategy and organizational performance (P<0.05). The most important strategies that had correlation with organizational performance included, personnel relations (33.3%), strategy (14.2%) and performance management strategies (2%). However, strategies to attract, hire and compensate predictive, had not significant correlation with personnel performance.

 

Conclusion: Due to impact of human resource strategies on the performance evaluation has been studied more than the average, it is suggested that management should focus on strategies to improve organizational performance benefits they are entitled to. In this regards, providing HR position in Kashani Hospital is recommended. 

 

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Introduction: The tendency to cosmetic surgery and its practice can be influenced by various physical, psychological, social and cultural factors. The aim of this study was to determine the correlation between sexual satisfaction and perceived social support with a tendency to cosmetic surgery.
Methods: The method of the present study is descriptive-correlation. The statistical population included all patients seeking cosmetic surgery in one month in 2020 in selected 3 clinics in Tehran, which was estimated at a total of 900 people. 322 of them were selected as a sample by non-random sampling Quota method. The demographic questionnaire, "Sexual Satisfaction Questionnaire", the "Perceived Social Support Scale" and the "Acceptance of Cosmetic Surgery Scale" were used to collect data. The construct validity of the instruments was confirmed by confirmatory factor analysis and the reliability was confirmed by internal consistency by calculating Cronbach's alpha coefficient. The collected data were analyzed in SPSS. 19.
Results: Tendency to cosmetic surgery has a negative and significant correlation with sexual satisfaction (r = -0.208) and perceived community support (r = -0.338) (P <0.05). Also, perceived social support (β = -0.29) and sexual satisfaction (β = -0.19) predict a total of 15% of the variance of the tendency to cosmetic surgery (P <0.05).
Conclusions: Tendency to cosmetic surgery has a negative and significant correlation with sexual satisfaction and perceived community support. Therefore, social support and sexual satisfaction predict the tendency to surgery. It is suggested that psychologists and counselors consider the role of social support and sexual satisfaction in reducing the unnecessary tendency of individuals to cosmetic surgery.