Omid Yousefi; Shahab Ghazi Mirsaiid; Pouria Azami; Ghazal Karimi; Arash Mani; Amin Niakan; Hosseinali Khalili
Volume 10, Issue 4 , October 2022, , Pages 157-164
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Objective: To study a Boswellia and ginger mixture on the memory dysfunction of the mild traumatic braininjury (mTBI) patients.Methods: Patients with mTBI were asked about memory impairment following the injury. One hundred mTBIpatients were visited and assessed using an auditory-visual learning test ...
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Objective: To study a Boswellia and ginger mixture on the memory dysfunction of the mild traumatic braininjury (mTBI) patients.Methods: Patients with mTBI were asked about memory impairment following the injury. One hundred mTBIpatients were visited and assessed using an auditory-visual learning test (AVLT) questionnaire. By usingrandom permuted blocks, patients were given the Memoral (a mixture of 360 mg of Boswellia and 36 mg ofginger) or placebo and were asked to consume it for a month. Patients were assessed one and three monthsafterward using the second and third steps of AVLT, respectively.Results: One hundred patients were included in the study and divided into control and intervention groups.The mean age of the patients was 36.83±14.71, and there were no significant differences between the twogroups (p=0.41). There were no statistically significant differences in the baseline scores of different AVLTparameters between the two groups. All patients had improvements in different parameters after three months.But some factors include the scores’ change in total learning, retroactive interference score, forgetting rate,and net positive score were significantly higher in treatment groups at one-month and three-month follow-upscompared to the placebo group. In contrast, word span and hit parameters had the same pattern of improvementin both groups.Conclusion: The herbal medication can have a satisfactory effect on eliminating post-mTBI memory dysfunctionwhile having no considerable adverse effects. The effect of these components can also be sustained after a twomonthtimeframe. These results may assist patients to have less mental involvement.
Ali Akbary; Seyed Taghi Heydari; Yaser Sarikhani; Mehrdad Vossoughi; Reza Tabrizi; Maryam Akbari; Najmeh Movahhedian; Arash Mani; Homayoun Sadeghi-Bazargani; Tahereh Ostovar; Kamran Bagheri Lankarani
Volume 8, Issue 3 , July 2020, , Pages 163-168
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Objective: To investigate the association between attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) score and driving behaviors among motorcycle drivers in Iran. Methods: This multi-center cross-sectional study was conducted on 1747 motorcyclists in three cities of Iran. We used a random sampling method ...
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Objective: To investigate the association between attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) score and driving behaviors among motorcycle drivers in Iran. Methods: This multi-center cross-sectional study was conducted on 1747 motorcyclists in three cities of Iran. We used a random sampling method in this study and gathered data using two standard questionnaires. Data were presented using descriptive statistics, also t-test, and ANOVA used for analysis. Results: The mean age of participants was 27.41±8.80 years. ADHD scores of the participants ranged from 0 to 87, with a mean score 31±15.86. All risky driving behaviors (RDBs) were significantly associated with a higher mean of ADHD score. For example, driving with illegal speed (p<0.001), not wearing a crash helmet (p=0.016), driving while exhausting (p<0.001), talking with other passengers (p<0.001), being fined by the police in the past year (p=0.028), and maneuvering while driving (p<0.001) were related to a higher mean of ADHD score. Conclusion: All RDBs were significantly associated with the ADHD score among motorcyclists in Iran. In this regard, health care providers should inform people with ADHD about the negative consequences associated with driving and ADHD. Public health policymakers should consider management of ADHD through a comprehensive approach to improve driving performance and competencies among motorcyclists in order to decrease RDBs and traffic accidents.
