Abstract Background & Aims: Despite the fact that pregnancy after In Vitro Fertilization is often the end of infertility treatment and investigations, some of pregnant women experience high level of anxiety and stress. The aim of this study is to determine the relationship of perceived social support and anxiety in women conceived via Assisted Reproduction Technologies (ARTs). Material & ...

Background & Aim: Chronic diseases are one of the most prevalent health problems affecting the quality of an adolescent's interaction with others. Social support can be important particularly during adolescence due to the many internal and external changes that happen to a person. This study aimed to determine the levels of perceived social support and its correlated factors in adolescents with...

  Background: Adherences to diet is essential for the treatment of hemodialysis patients. Nonadherence to treatment is directly associated with worse clinical outcomes.This study was designed to determine the association between Adherences to diet with perceived social support and self-efficacy among hemodialysis patients .   Methods: In this cross-sectional study, 203 hemodialysis patients wer...

  Background & Aims : quality of sleep could be useful in health promotion and improvement of quality of life in student. Some psychosocial factors such as social support might affect the quality of sleep. Accordingly, the aim of this study was to determine the relationship between perceived social support and quality of sleep in nursing students.   Material & Methods : It was a descriptive cor...

  Abstract   Background & Aim: Providing protection strategies against depression or anxiety after coronary artery bypass surgery has been recommend by different studies. Accordingly this study was conducted to investigate the relationship between perceived social support and depression and anxiety before and after surgery in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass graft in 201...

  Background and Aim: Cancer produces many problems in all dimensions of human life. and cause increased supportive needs patients. Dramatic increase in the number of cancer patients, different treatments and health care costs highlights the need for a better social setting towards a healthy life. Present study determines the correlation between perceived social support from different and suppo...

Abstract The aim of the present study is to compare personality characteristics and social support of successful and unsuccessful addicts in quitting addiction. In this causal-comparative research 50 successful addicts in quitting addiction, and 50 unsuccessful addicts were selected using convenience sampling. Data were collected using NEO personality questionnaire and Procidano and Heller p...