1. Dept. of Radiology, Imam Khomeini Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 2. Epidemiology and Biostatistics Department, School of Public Health, Knowledge Utilization Research Centre (KURC), Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 3. Roozbeh Hospital, Department of Psychiatry, Imam Khomeini Hospital, Psychosomatic Ward, Tehran University of Medical Sciences,...

Objectives: Personality and spiritual factors play an important role in the death anxiety of incurable patients. This research was performed to investigate mediating resilience relationship between emotional regulation spirituality, with cancer Methods: Number 290 patients referring chemotherapy section Imam Reza Hospital were selected using available sampling methods. The questionnaires that c...

BACKGROUND Being diagnosed with cancer has major impacts on a patient's life. This study was conducted to explore how specific daily activities of patients change as a result of cancer diagnosis or its treatment and how these patients feel about such changes. METHODS This was a cross-sectional descriptive study. Cancer patients referred to our clinics and by completing a questionnaire, they r...

OBJECTIVE To describe the epidemiological and clinical characteristics of fall injuries in East Azerbaijan, Iran. METHODS This cross-sectional study was based on Hospital Information System (HIS) data for patients referred to the Imam Reza Hospital between 2008 and 2013. We recorded the demographic characteristics and epidemiological patterns of patients who were admitted to our center due to...

Obesity is one of the major issues in health population worldwide. Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB) considered a safe and effective treatment obese patients. In addition RYGB has shown therapeutic potential type 2 diabetic This study represents 6 months follow-up on 63 patients with BMI≥40 Kg/m3, suffering from both DM2 CKD, who underwent LRYGB. From 900 referred to Imam Reza, Sina, Bentolhod...

BACKGROUND Positive thinking which is derived from an optimistic view toward the universe and plays an important role in the incidence of better and a more targeted behavior among human beings. It can improve spiritual health in the individuals through increased communication with God and thanksgiving and accelerate the healing process. Accordingly, we aimed to evaluate the effect of positive t...

Objective: Trauma is a disease of modern societies and one of the reasons for the deaths of all ages in those societies. It is estimated that each year about 8.5 million people worldwide lose their lives as a result of trauma. Among the types of injuri...

BACKGROUND Pneumonia is the third most common cause of death in the world, and mortality is highest for patients who require hospitalization. OBJECTIVES This prospective observational study is an etiological survey of community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) over a 12-month period in the Iranian city of Mashhad. To our knowledge, this is one of the first prospective hospital-based studies to compre...