background: brief family interventions may have a positive impact on family caregivers of mental disorders. this study aimed to evaluate the effect of family psycho-education on depression, anxiety and stress in family caregivers of patients with mental disorders. methods: this randomized controlled trial designed and evaluated the effectiveness of a group psycho-educational program on 100 care...

Background and Aim: Dentistry is among the most stressful professions. Dentists’ occupational stress usually begins during their university education. This study aimed to assess the relationship between the level of stress experienced by dental students during endodontic treatment and their coping strategies. Materials and Methods: This descriptive study was conducted on 204 fifth and sixth ...

background: masticatory ability as a subjective response to masticatory function indicates patients’ perception of their mastication. to the best of our knowledge, there has been no study on association between masticatory ability and psychological status. this study investigated the association between self-assessed masticatory ability (sama) and psychological status among a large sample of ir...

background: infertility is defined as the inability to achieve the pregnancy within a year of unprotected intercourse. infertility is a complex issue and different factors such as stress oxidative can be involved in this problem. so, any attempt to neutralize oxidative stress would be helpful in the treatment of infertility. melatonin is a known scavenger of free radicals. objective: the aim of...

objective: diabetes is a chronic disease that causes severe side effects in patients. according to the previous studies, the incidence of depression and anxiety is higher among patients with diabetes type 2. the present study was conducted with the aim of examining the effectiveness of mindfulness-based stress reduction program and conscious yoga on depression, anxiety and stress in patients wi...

Since medical practice is one of the stressful occupations as a result of high work-load, sleepless conditions and hyposomnia, management of severely ill patients and occasionally death of them, this study was performed to determine the rate of stress in a group of specialists and residents of different fields in Shaheed Beheshti University of Medical Sciences. The descriptive and cross-sectio...

drought is the most common environmental stress in vineyard occurs in soils with low water content, even in irrigation condition. to evaluate foliar spraying of ascorbic acid under drought stress, a research during 2012 to 2013 years in the natural environment, and one year after the establishment of the cuttings in clay loam soil was conducted. cultivars with two-level white seedless and khosh...