background: religious belief is one of the most important factors in people’s life that can affect their mental health. the aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between religious belief and mental health among high school students in dargaz city, khorasan razavi province, iran, 2010-2011. methods: this cross-sectional study was performed on 157 high school students selected by ...

AIMS Planning a career in general practice depends on positive attitudes towards primary care. The aim of this study was to compare attitudes of medical students of a Modern Curriculum at Hannover Medical School with those of the Traditional Curriculum before (pre) and after (post) a three-week clerkship in general practice. In parallel, we aimed to analyse several other variables such as age a...

Meat demand and production are under strain because of their effect on the atmosphere, animal welfare, growing for proteins worldwide. Cultured meat (CM) is now an industry, politics, society's hot subject. While understanding effects rise, opposition to removal from our diets remains. One alternative way alleviating these consequences by producing in vitro meat. A pre-coded questionnaire was u...

this study is aimed at identifying and comparing the factors impacting on happy, stable marriages lasting more than 20 years and the factors influencing divorcing couples. using purposeful sampling, the sampling process continued until theoretical saturation. the obtained data were analyzed on the basis of grounded theory. the results indicate that a journey toward a thriving or dissolving marr...

This research details the development of a new instrument designed to measure attitudes toward same-sex marriage. Participants were 615 heterosexual women and men, drawn from both student and nonstudent adult populations. Four studies were conducted for the purpose of developing the scale and to establish its psychometric properties. The resulting Attitudes Toward Same-Sex Marriage Scale (ATSM)...