objective: to evaluate the possible interaction between religious beliefs and psychiatric disorders among black americans. methods: in this study, we used data of 5181 adult black americans who had participated in national survey of american life (nsal) from february 2001 to june 2003. variables such as socio-demographics, religious beliefs, and psychiatric disorders were entered in a cox regre...

1 Characteristic 0 We start with a basic question: given a polynomial f ∈ C[z1, · · · , zn] with a singularity at 0, how can we measure the “singularness” of this polynomial in a precise way? In other words: we can look at various singularities and see intuitively that some singularities are worse than others. For instance, it feels like a transverse self-intersection is probably not as bad as ...

background: irritable bowel syndrome (ibs) is a very common disorder. some researches have pointed to an interaction between psychiatric disorders and ibs. present study aimed to determine psychiatric disorders in patients with ibs compared to normal controls among an iranian population. materials and methods: all freshmen students (n=3012) of tehran university invited to the study at 2001. a t...

this study was done to assess bioequivalence between test and reference formulations of escitalopram oxalate 20 mg in healthy indian male subjects. this single-dose, randomized, open-label, 2-period crossover study was carried out in 12 healthy indian male volunteers aged 18 to 55 years under fasting conditions with a wash out of 14 days.  the subjects were randomly assigned to receive the test...

background: psychiatric illnesses are an important group of co‑morbidities that can occur among patients with non‑communicable diseases (ncds). both these chronic conditions have an important implication in terms of quality of life, general well-being and cost of treatment and general longevity of the patient. the objectives of our study were to assess the burden of psychiatric co‑morbidities a...

objective: this study aimed to describe attributors of family stressors which cause rehospitalizations in patients with psychotic disorders. materials and methods: in a cross sectional study (during 2006-7) 203 randomly selected psychiatric readmitted patients with psychotic diagnosis and registered demographic and psychiatric clinical data were included. family stressors as the possible cause ...

recent epidemiological studies show that obsessive-compulsive disorder (ocd) and its comorbidity with psychiatric problems is more prevalent among children and adolescents than was previously believed. the primary aim of the current study is to investigate the point-prevalence rate of obsessive compulsive symptoms in a sample of adolescent high school student in iran. a two-stage epidemiologica...

quality of life measures can provide an important source of medical information for promoting the health status of chronically ill patients. the purpose of the present study was to evaluate health related quality of life in psychiatric veterans of the iraq- iran war of the 1980s.they were out patients diagnosed with various psychiatric symptoms. the present study used a cross sectional design, ...