conclusions based on the study results, making plans to promote mental aspect of nurses, focusing on family foundations like marriage, reducing and distributing working hours, and decreasing night shifts hours of nurses could reduce their depression and improve their quality of life. results according to the final model yielded from path analysis, the most important factors contributing to depr...

objective: based on young’s schema therapy model, three coping styles i.e. avoidance, surrender, and overcompensation is utilized against schema activation. confronting with events, the type of dominant coping style affects general health. the aim of this study was to predict general health status (mental and physical) based on the type of dominant coping styles.   method: for this purpose, sho...

Expectant mothers are inundated with information about the benefits of breastfeeding for their babies but are often poorly informed about the consequences breastfeeding has for their own mental and physical health. Women know about the potential benefits of breastfeeding for the baby’s immune function and intellect (Kramer et al., 2001; Kramer et al., 2008), but mothers could also be asking the...

People with serious mental illness (SMI) have greatly increasing morbidity and mortality from physical illness than the general population. This results in a 25 to 30 year shorter life expectancy with cardiovascular disease being the leading cause of death 1 . It has been suggested that current policy, services and health promotion actions are ineffective in targeting physical illness in this p...

background female circumcision, sexual amputation, or female genital mutilation (fgm) is an action existing in some cultures and regions of the world. for instance, in africa and some little communities in middle east use this operation for many reasons. this operation is forbidden in those countries and is never linked to religious attitudes. objectives the purpose of the following research wa...