Manoochehr Karami

Research Center for Health Sciences, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran.

[ 1 ] - Nasopharyngeal Pneumococcal Colonization among Children after Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine Introduction

World Health Organization has recommended all countries to introduction of Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine (PCV) in routine immunization schedule, especially those countries with higher rate of mortality in children. However, Islamic Republic of Iran and more than 50 other countries including Algeria, Antigua and Barbuda, Belarus, Belize, Bhutan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brunei Darussalam, Cabo V...

[ 2 ] - Potentially Preventable Number of Cases and Deaths Associated with Pneumococcal Diseases and Haemophilus Influenzae in Iran during (2010-2013)

Background: Streptococcus pneumoniae and Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) is a leading cause of bacterial pneumonia, meningitis, and sepsis in children under 5-year of age. This study aims to estimate potentially preventable number of cases and deaths caused by Hib and pneumococcal in Iran.Materials and Methods:We used the burden of diseases model estimates of the World Health Organization (...

[ 3 ] - بررسی ارتباط سازه های الگوی اعتقاد بهداشتی با رفتارهای پیشگیری کننده از هپاتیت «ب» در معتادین مراجعه کننده به مرکز ترک اعتیاد شهر همدان

Introduction: Hepatitis B is a major global health problem. Injecting drug users are at high risk of hepatitis B and the majority of cases with hepatitis B are among this group. The purpose of this survey was to study the preventive behaviors of hepatitis B based on Health Belief Model among addicts affiliated to Hamadan. Methods: This was a descriptive cross-sectional study on 135 male addi...

[ 4 ] - بررسی تاثیر آموزش مراقبت در منزل بر کنترل قند خون بیماران دیابتی نوع دو مراجعه کننده به مرکز تحقیقات دیابت شهر همدان

  Background: One of the most challenges in diabetic patients is learning how to glycemic control. Patient education in the home increases the ability of patients to self-care. This study aimed to determine the effect of home care education on glycemic control in type 2 diabetes patients.   Methods: This study was a clinical randomized controlled trial which conducted on sixty diabetic type 2 p...

[ 5 ] - اعتبارسنجی روش‌های اندازه‌گیری طول کانال دندان: یک مطالعه روش شناختی

Background and Aims: Acurate measurements of variables are crucial in epidemiological studies. Therefore, even the best design cannot prevent bugs caused due to the lack of reliability and validity measurement in studies. The aim of this study is to determine the validity of teeth-canal measurement. Materials and Methods: This methodological study used available data of patients referred t...

[ 6 ] - تحلیل زمان- مکان موارد سل ریوی در استان همدان با استفاده از خطر قابل انتساب جمعیت

Background and Objectives: One of the applications of population attributable risk percent (PAR%) is to estimate the disease burden in a population exposed to several risk factors. Therefore, this study was conducted to estimates the PAR% of the space-time clusters of pulmonary tuberculosis. Methods: In this study, the data of pulmonary TB cases were obtained from the health department of Ha...

[ 7 ] - روش‌های پایش و ارزش‌یابی اثرات واکسن‌های هموفیلوس آنفلوانزا و پنوموکوک در ایران

Background and Objectives: The Haemophilus influenzae (Hib) conjugate vaccine (HibCV) using a pentavalent formulation was introduced to the Iranian routine immunization program from November 2014. Iran is preparing to include Pneumococcal conjugate vaccines (PCV), as well. Measuring and monitoring the impact of HibCV and PCV are necessary to provide evidence for introduction and sustained admin...

[ 8 ] - تعیین رابطه آلودگی هوا و مرگ به علت بیماری‌های قلبی- عروقی و تنفسی در کلان‌شهر تهران با به‌کارگیری مدل GLARMA

Background and Objectives: Cardiac diseases are a major cause of death in Iran. The number of deaths from cardiac diseases can be reduced through controlling air pollution. The aim of this study was to determine the relationship between increased air pollution and mortality from respiratory and cardiac diseases in Tehran. Methods: The average daily concentrations of five pollutants, includin...

[ 9 ] - امکان‌سنجی استفاده از منابع داده‌های بالینی و غیربالینی در نظام مراقبت سندرومیک آنفلوانزا: به‌کارگیری رویکرد تجزیه‌وتحلیل همبستگی

Background and Objectives: Syndromic surveillance systems are used to early detection of outbreaks. The purpose of this study was to determine the feasibility of clinical and non-clinical data sources used in influenza syndromic surveillance in Zanjan. Methods: In this time series study, clinical and non-clinical data related to influenza like illness (ILI) as a potential data source of synd...

[ 10 ] - الگوی فشار خون بالا و سهم منتسب جمعیتی سکته مغزی مرتبط با فشار خون بالا در استان همدان طی سال‏های 88-1384

  Background & Objectives : Considering the high prevalence of hypertension and its increasing trend in Iran as the most important known modifiable risk factor of stroke, this study was performed to determine the pattern of hypertension and the related population attributable fraction (PAF) of stroke in Hamadan Province.   Methods: Blood pressure data of over-19-year-old population of Hamadan P...

[ 11 ] - ارزشیابی عملکرد الگوریتم مجموع تراکمی در کشف طغیان

Background & Objectives: Timely response to emerging diseases and outbreaks are a major public health and health systems priority. There are few published studies that evaluate the performance of cumulative sum (CUSUM) on identical data using semi- synthetic simulation approach. This study was undertaken to determine the performance of the CUSUM in timely detection of 831 days of simulated outb...

[ 12 ] - عوامل تعیین‌کننده دوره زمانی منفی‌شدن اسمیر خلط بیماران سل ریوی در استان همدان: یک مطالعه همگروهی تاریخی

Background & Objectives: Tuberculosis (TB) is the largest single cause of death from infectious diseases and has a ten rating of global burden of disease. Despite the availability of effective treatment for pulmonary TB, sputum conversion of patients affected by various factors. This study aimed to determine the time course of sputum conversion in patients and possible affected factors in this ...

[ 13 ] - عوامل تعیین‌کننده خودکشی موفق: یک مطالعه مقطعی

سابقه و هدف: خودکشی به عنوان یک معضل بزرگ بهداشت عمومی در کلیه جوامع مطرح است. خودکشی ریشه در مسائل پیچیده رفتاری، بیولوژیک، اجتماعی و روانشناختی داشته و اطلاعات موجود در این زمینه به خصوص در شهرستان‌‎ها محدود است. لذا، این پژوهش با هدف تعیین عوامل مرتبط با خودکشی موفق در شهرستان تویسرکان انجام گرفت. روش‌کار: مطالعه حاضر یک مطالعه مقطعی از نوع توصیفی- تحلیلی می باشد که در آن 265 مورد اقدام ب...

[ 14 ] - Evaluation of Resistance to Aminoglycosides among clinical isolates of Acinetobacter baumannii: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

In past decades, aminoglycosides have been commonly used to treat gram-negative infections as well as multi-drug resistant tuberculosis strains. However, in recent years, intrinsic, adaptive and acquired resistances have been raised against aminoglycosides which limits the uptake of these antibiotics. Acquired resistance to Acinetobacter baumannii responsible for nosocomial infection against am...

[ 15 ] - Research Priorities of Hamadan University of Medical Sciences in 2017: Application of Essential National Health Research (ENHR)

Background and Objectives: Prioritizing the list of required research, taking into account the real needs and problems of the health sector, provides a ground for justice; strengthens the link between research, action, and policy; and addresses the needs of vulnerable groups. The present study was done to formulate research priorities of Hamadan University of Medical Sciences using the opinions...