this commentary on potts et al provides a critical view on their thesis that increasing the level of education among women is likely to reduce terrorism. presence of a strong family planning program enables women to control family size resulting in women’s public participation more likely and facilitating the emergence of small birth cohorts who are less likely to become unemployed. in spite of...

patients and methods the current quasi-experimental study was conducted on 96 eligible females, who were allocated either to the case or the control group and were selected from homes in the border of zahedan city (southeast of iran) during 2010. convenience sampling by door-to-door visits was used for finding eligible cases. a ttm-based self-administrated family planning questionnaire was used...

background and aim: family psychological support is a highly important concept concerning patients diagnosed with cancer. the purpose of this study was to investigate cancer patients’ perceptions of family psychological support. methods: this study had a qualitative approach using inductive content analysis method. through purposive sampling, 15 patients were selected who underwent semi-structu...

background: short birth intervals have been associated with adverse health outcomes, including infant, child and maternal mortality. objective:  we aimed to investigate the duration and determinants of inter birth intervals among women of reproductive age in yazd, iran. materials and methods:  a cluster sampling technique was used to select 400 ever-married women aged 15-49 years in yazd, islam...

background: the fertility experience in iran suggests that the family planning programs had an effective role in the fertility reduction. this study aimed to specify patterns of marriage in iran and especially in a northern city of iran and to investigate the association between patterns of marriage and contraceptive use before first pregnancy and current contraceptive use. methods: in this cro...

background & aim: family caregivers of cancer patients are at a high risk of physical, psychological and emotional problems, which could adversely affect their quality of life. this study aimed to evaluate the quality of life of the female caregivers of breast cancer patients in sabzevar, iran. methods: this cross-sectional study was conducted on 105 participants in sabzevar, iran in 2013. subj...

objective: smoking is a worldwide health problem. despite recent efforts to reduce the rate of smoking, adolescent smoking still remains a significant public health concern. current study was conducted to determine the effects of socio-environmental and personal factors on the smoking among adolescents. method: in the first stage of a longitudinal study of smoking in adolescents, 1785 students ...

solving the dilemma of the organ shortage in malaysia requires educating malaysians about organ donation and transplantation. this paper aims at exploring the average malaysian households ' preferred channels of campaigns and the preferred campaigners in a family setting, targeting at the dialysis family members.we analyzed the responses of 350 respondents regarding organ donation campaigns. th...

background and objectives: brucellosis is a zoonotic disease and it’s still endemic in iran. there are some reports regarding brucellosis infection in family members sharing same risk factors and remain unrecognized. however , few studies on the importance of family screening are available. we aimed to screen household members of index cases with acute brucellosis for detecting additional unrec...