background: premature birth is one of the most important unresolved reproductive health problems. premature birth is often traumatic and a source of distress for parents. increased parental stress during the first year of their infant's life is a risk factor for later behavioral problems in infants. objectives: this study was designed to compare anxiety, post-traumatic stress, and social suppor...

this paper presents the results of engineering geological studies of rock blocks along a road tunnel in nw iran. the tunnel is to cross the western alborz mountain range through 530 m in length with 11.2 m span and 8 m height. eocene tuffs and andesites crop out in whole of the tunnel route. numerical analyses are done using, a 3d stability analysis and visualization program, called unwedge tha...

abstract background: childbirth is accompanied with enormous physical and emotional changes in mothers. anxiety is the most common problem among these patients. this study was aimed to determine the effect of the presence of trained husbands beside their wives during childbirth on their anxiety. materials and methods: in a randomized control trial, 84 primiparous women were enrolled in childbir...

the purpose of this research was the the role of coping styles and social support in discriminating of students with high and low test anxiety. 387 of students in azad university of kermanshah selected by clustered sampling and filled the students coping scale and multidimensional scale of perceived social support and test anxiety questionnaire. results indicated that there is meaningful correl...

aim and background: this meta-analysis evaluated the relationship between mental health and social support in iran. methods and materials: in order to assess the relationship between mental health and social support, eight eligible studies with acceptable methodology were selected. findings: the effect size of the relationship between mental health and social support in iran was 0.369. conclusi...

background women are seriously subjected to psychiatric diseases during pregnancy and depression is the most prevailing one among these diseases. there is a relation between the social support and depression in pregnancy whose predisposing factors are genetic, psychological, biological, environmental, and hormonal. objectives this study aimed to determine the frequency of depression symptoms, a...

conclusions: the core variable of our research is acceptance of the reality of the conditions caused by the disease. the research finalized our knowledge about patient problems regarding social support and revealed many problems of supporting patients by health team members, family members and organizations. the findings suggest that individual aspects of patient experiences must be considered ...

conclusions based on the findings of the study, it can be concluded that self-efficacy beliefs and social support play effective roles in preventing patients from addiction relapse. results findings revealed significant differences between participants without relapse and participants with relapse in terms of “self-efficacy beliefs” and “social support”. the two variables of self-efficacy belie...

in this paper, covalent immobilization of beta amylase enzyme on the surface of modified magnetic nano particles (znfe2o4@sio2-nh2) is reported. for doing so, at first, the magnetic nanoparticles of znfe2o4 were synthesized by chemical co-precipitation method and then tetraethyl orthosilicate (teos) and 3-aminopropyltriethoxy silane (aptes) were used for modification of znfe2o4 nanoparticles wi...

introduction : pregnancy as a stressful event may cause some consequence for both mother and infant such as low birth weight (lbw). lbw is seen in about 7% of pregnancies in iran. it was proved there is a correlation between infants weight and maternal social support. this study was designed to evaluate maternal perceived social support in lbw infants and infants with normal weight. methods and...