conclusions this study presented some effects of the pomegranate peel extract in reducing pain and improving clinical signs and symptoms in women with knee oa and might be considered as a complementary medicine in treating oa. results there were no significant differences between the two groups in the mean of age, body mass index (bmi), disease duration and parity before intervention (p > 0.05)...

considering the importance of randomized clinical trials (rcts) in the evidence-based approach, the objective of this study was critical appraisal of reporting rcts in iranian dental journals.after adequate searching, 113 rct articles published during 2003-2010 were reviewed for quality of reporting with the consort scale. the quality of each paper was assessed on 20.although statistical analys...

background: cardiovascular disease is the main reason for mortality in men and women. clinical epidemiology of myocardial infarction (mi) in men and women has not been yet studied in iran, one of the largest middle east countries in south‑western asia. this study was conducted to determine the clinical epidemiology of mi in men and women in iran. methods: this hospital‑based, cross‑sectional st...

this research is a cross-sectional study conducted to aim of comparison of self treatment between teacher and clinical nurse in tehran. in this study 100 teacher and 100 clinical nurses participate. for data gathering use of a questionnaire including tow part: one section about overall participants characteristics and another section including question about self treatment. the results show tha...

background: brucellosis is one of the most common infectious diseases in some areas of iran. brucellosis has various clinical manifestations and should be considered in the differential diagnosis of many infectious and non-infectious diseases. the aims of this study were to determine the epidemiological, clinical and laboratory findings of the disease in patients with brucellosis in hamadan, we...

introduction: the objective of this retrospective cross-sectional study was to obtain epidemiological data from the charts of 297 patients with nasal polyposis who were operated on in a referral hospital in mashhad and to determine the frequency of the presenting symptoms of nasal polyps.  materials and methods: the variables recorded included age, gender, the presence of asthma or allergic rhi...

abstract objective: according to the previous studies, 2-5 percent of patients with multiple sclerosis experienced the first episode of disease before the age 16.  since the age of onset among children is not similar to that in general population, clinicians often fail to early diagnose the disease. this study aims to determine the epidemiological and clinical patterns of ms among iranian child...

introduction: clinical education in critical care units is very important and promotion of quality of clinical education can lead to higher qualification and professionalism of nursing students in this area of practice . so, this study was conducted to evaluate the clinical skills of nursing students in icu , ccu and dialysis units . method & materials : this research was a cross sectional desc...

background: clinical education is a critical and complex component of nursing education that is influenced by many variables. one of them is stress, which may disturb students’ learning, too. stressors may differ according to the learning situation and environment, and recognizing them, seems to be essential for corrective interventions. the present work was performed to identify stressors in c...