In epidemiological studies there exists the evidence of relationship between socio-economic status (SES) and health. The suspicious cause of these differences is life-style. The aim of the presented study was to identify the relationship between SES, demographic characteristics and the life-style in an industrial region. A structured questionnaire was distributed to a random sample of some 3,00...

BACKGROUND According to the WHO report released in 2000, about 121 million people worldwide suffer from depression. The present study aimed to explore factors influencing depression in mothers from Rey, South of Tehran, Iran; who had elementary school children. METHODS The cross-sectional survey was conducted in spring 2010. Four hundred thirty mothers, who had elementary school children, wer...

Background: There is lack of Iranian studies on marital satisfaction which is one of the important factors in the stability of marriage. The present study aimed to evaluate the effects of socio-demographic variables on marital satisfaction. Methods: This Analytical and  cross-sectional study was conducted on 770 married people from Gonabad city, Northeast of Iran. Simple random sampling was us...

BACKGROUND Nutritional habits are a useful way to characterize whole diets and they are also known to be influenced by a wide range of social and economic factors. The above factors in each country may have different effect on children's eating habits. In Lithuania the data of children nutrition in association with socio-economic status of family is poor. There are few studies done, where links...

BACKGROUND Illnesses and interventions can affect the health status of family carers in addition to patients. However economic evaluation studies rarely incorporate data on health status of carers. OBJECTIVES We investigated whether changes in carer health status could be 'predicted' from the health data of those they provide care to (patients), as a means of incorporating carer outcomes in e...

Background Depression is a mental health state whose frequency has been increasing in modern societies. It imposes a great burden, because of the strong impact on people’s quality of life and happiness. Depression can be reliably diagnosed and treated in primary care: if more people could get effective treatments earlier, the costs related to depression would be reversed. The aim of this study ...