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War puts veteran's families at risk and a problem in addition to the physical and mental disorders for veterans. The present study was conducted to examine effectiveness of hope therapy on quality of life in wives of veteranswith post-traumatic stress disorder.
Design of This study was quasi-experimental. It consisted of 30 participants who were wives of veterans with PTSD disorder in Dehloran that were selected by convenience method and were assigned into experimental and control groups randomly. Group hopetherapy was conductedin eight sessions of two-hours. Quality of Life Questionnaire (SF-36) was used in this study. The questionnaire was implemented on participants of both groups in three stages: before intervention, after intervention and two months after the intervention (follow-up).
Based on the results of repeated measures variance analysis, mean score of quality of life significantly increased in experimental group in comparison to control group, in post-test and follow-up.
According to results of this study that represent effect of hope therapy on quality of life, so it is recommended hope therapy can be used to improve the quality of life of people especially the families of veterans.

Legionella pneumophila is an organism of public health interest because of its ability to cause mechanical ventilation. The aim of this research was determination of Legionella pnemophila in bronchoalveolar lavage samples in patients with ventilator-associated pneumonia by real time PCR in ICU at Al Zahra hospital. In this descriptive analytic study, Pneumonia patients hospitalized in ICU of Isfahan Al Zahra hospital were studied in one year in 2011. Thirty-nine Bronchoalveolar lavage specimens were collected from patients with ventilator associated Pneumonia and kept in- 20°C until the test. DNA was extracted by phenol chloroform and Real time PCR process was done in 45 cycles consist of 95°C for 4 seconds in the first step and 58°C for 30 seconds, while experiments were performed using Taq Man method. The results for presence of Legionella pneumophila bacteria in all samples were negative. Minimum age of patients was 20 and maximum age was 86 years. Duration of hospitalization in ICU was at least 2 days and maximum was 65 days. Maximum ventilation period was 65 days and minimum period was 2 days. This study demonstrates the absence of Legionella pneumophila in patients with ventilator associated pneumonia in ICU of this hospital. It seems that Legionella pneumophila microbiological pattern recognition is also logical for other medical centers.