Associations of knowledge about Alzheimer’s disease, dysfunctional cognition, and coping with caregiver’s blood pressure

Health Workers\' Knowledge and Attitude about Ebola Virus Disease

Introduction: Ebola is a viral infection with a high mortality risk and health workers are considered as an at-risk group. The main aim of this study was to determine the knowledge and attitude of health workers about Ebola virus disease (EVD) in Yazd city, Iran. Methods: This cross-sectional study was carried out on 110 health workers in health centres of Yazd city, Iran in 2015, who were sel...

Religious coping, ethnicity, and ambulatory blood pressure.

OBJECTIVE To investigate the relationship between religious coping, ethnicity, and ambulatory blood pressure (ABP) measured during daily life. METHODS A 24-hour ABP was obtained from 155 men and women (78 African American and 77 white) on a typical workday. ABP was averaged over awake and sleep periods, and clinic BP was also assessed. Psychosocial measures of coping style, negative affect, s...

Blood Pressure and Aging Associations of Bisphenol A Exposure With Heart Rate Variability and Blood Pressure

Bisphenol A (BPA) is a high-volume production chemical that has been suspected to have adverse health effects. Recent studies have suggested that cardiovascular diseases are associated with the BPA exposure. The aim of present study was to investigate the associations of urinary BPA with heart rate variability and blood pressure. We recruited 560 noninstitutionalized elderly citizens from Augus...

The Development and Psychometric Evaluation of Iranian Coping Style Scale (ICSS): Associations with Individual Differences

Survey knowledge of caregivers of patients of schizophrenia about home care in ‎

Introduction: More than ‎‏70%‏‎ of patients with schizophrenia are cared by family at home. ‎Knowledge deficit of caregivers is basically the basic and fundamental problem regarding the ‎signs and symptoms of disease.  ‎ Objective: This study was to assess the knowledge level of schizophrenic patients' caregivers ‎referring to Shahid Beheshti hospital in ...