Hadis Rastad

Department of Epidemiology, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.

[ 1 ] - Diagnostic accuracy of sonohysterography compared to endometrial biopsy in pre-menopausal women with abnormal uterine bleeding

  Background: AUB is a common cause of women’s referring to gynecologists. Although hysteroscopy is known as the gold standard technique for diagnosing the cause of AUB, sonohysterography is less invasive, and it is performed by general gynecologists. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the diagnostic performance of sonohysterography compared to the results of the endometrial biopsy, guided…

[ 2 ] - Understanding the Reasons for Sharing Syringes or Needles to Inject Drugs: Conventional Content Analysis

Background: This qualitative study was undertaken with the aim to identify the reasons for sharing syringesor needles among people who inject drugs (PWID) in Iran.Methods: We used purposive sampling to recruit 4 groups of participants, male PWID (n = 14), female PWID(n = 6), service providers (n = 8), and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)/addiction experts (n = 9). Datawere collected through 2 f…