Background and purpose: Identifying the nature of social anxiety through its causative factors can provide valuable information for the health system. The purpose of this study was to evaluate a structural model for creating and maintaining factors causing social anxiety disorder in students in a medical sciences university. Materials and methods: A descriptive-correlational study was perform...

Professional ethics is one of the most important topics in medicine that educators or professors play an important role in teaching and measuring it. The present study was designed and conducted to evaluate the observance of professional ethics among surgical assistants of educational hospitals of Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences in 2019 by self-assessment method. This study was...

Abstract Introduction: Parallel with the rapid advancements in information and communication technology (ICT) and evolving learner behaviors, language teaching and learning discipline looks to from the application of these developments for learning and teaching English as a lingua franca (ELF). However, acquisition of ELF is deemed to be a demanding experience affecting learners both psycholo...

Introduction: Web is a source of information for students. Online information seeking behavior is related to several factors. One of these factors is the skill of critical thinking and information analysis on the web. The present study was conducted for explanting online information behavior and relation with critical thinking in postgraduate student. Methods: The present research is descripti...

Background and objective: Residents’ specialty choices have a direct impact on the health care workforce and the future supply of physician manpower. This study carried out to assess preferences choices of medical residents’ and society needs in Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences. Materials and Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted on 389 medical residents in 2013. Da...

Background and purpose: Colorectal cancer is one of the most common cancers in the world and Iran. This cancer is a multifactorial disease that is induced by interaction of various genetic and environmental factors. In this study, we investigated the interactions between different environmental factors and candidate polymorphisms of two genes in colorectal cancer X-ray repair cross-complementin...

Background and purpose: The newly updated American Diabetes Association guidelines based on evidence-based medical practice have proposed screening of the patients for neuropathy at the time of diagnosis with type II diabetes mellitus. However, the complex and extensive clinical manifestation of diabetic peripheral neuropathy and lack of objective evaluation indexes makes this screening rather ...