background: occupational injury is related to personal characteristics. this phenomenon is a controversial issue. this paper presents the relationships of certain occupational and individual characteristics with frequency of occupational injuries. methods : a standardized injury questionnaire was completed for 199 employees in a big iranian industrial company (mapna group) by the researcher in ...

occupational therapy in iran is relatively young-established in 1971-with a fluctuated development due to the iranian revolution in 1979, and eight years war from 1981 to 1989. today, there are ten bachelor programs across the country approved by world federation of occupational therapists (wfot). furthermore, occupational therapists have opportunities for further postgraduate training in both ...

The authors examined the prediction of occupational attainment by age 40 from contextual and personal variables assessed during childhood and adolescence in 2 participant samples: (a) the Columbia County Longitudinal Study, a study of 856 third graders in a semirural county in New York State that began in 1960, and (b) the Jyväskylä Longitudinal Study of Personality and Social Development, a st...

Past paternal psychobiology research has focused almost exclusively on biological, residential fathers and the role of fathers as direct caregivers. Here, drawing on a large sample of Filipino men, we help to expand this research area by testing for relationships between fathers’ testosterone, prolactin, and weekly hours in work, childcare, and recreation. Using longitudinal data collected when...

Background & Aims of the Study: Pediculosis is a parasitic disease and one of the main factors affecting the health level of the society. The present study aimed to determine the risk factors associated with the prevalence of pediculosis in elementary school females in Mashhad, Iran, from 2017 to 2018. Materials and Methods: This descriptive and analytical study included 3062 elementary sc...

Background: Prior research on adaptation after early trauma among black South African women typically assessed resilience in ways that lacked contextual specificity. In addition, the neurocognitive correlates of social and occupational resilience have not been investigated. Objective: The primary aim of this exploratory study was to identify domains of neurocognitive functioning associated with...

conclusions this study indicated that the use of this model in the children’s nutritional status can result in positive outcomes, and this model can make interventions more effective in this regard. objectives this study aimed to apply authoritative parenting style model in children’s nutritional status. methods this research was a cross-sectional study conducted on 1000 parents selected by ran...

Occupational medicine has been formally recognized as a specialty since 1978 but until recently it has been practised largely outside the National Health Service so that its content and scope may be unfamiliar to many doctors. The Faculty of Occupational Medicine which has just celebrated its tenth anniversary has, as one of the features of the examination for Associateship, a requirement to pa...

It has been argued in sociology, economics, and evolutionary anthropology that family size limitation enhances the intergenerational upward mobility chances in modernized societies. If parents have a large flock, family resources get diluted and intergenerational mobility is bound to head downwards. Yet, the empirical record supporting this resource dilution hypothesis is limited. This article ...