Background Asthma is the most common chronic disease in childhood. Parents have an important role in managing asthma in children. Studies have shown a higher degree of depression and anxiety and lower family performance in mothers of asthmatic children in comparison with the control group. Objective The aim of this study was to evaluate the parenting styles and also depression, anxiety and st...

BACKGROUND Health warning labels on cigarette packages are among the most straightforward and important tools to communicate with smokers and various studies have illustrated their efficacy. OBJECTIVES The current study aimed to investigate the opinions of male smokers in Mashhad city about the efficacy of health warning labels printed on cigarette packages on the smoking status of smokers. ...

C injury to the liver leads to its fibrosis (1). Hepatitis B and C are examples of viral infections that cause chronic hepatitis; even asymptomatic patients show some degree of liver fibrosis (LF) that can range from mild to end-stage cirrhosis (2-4). Determining the degree of LF in chronic viral hepatitis is necessary in determining a patient’s prognosis and indications for therapy. Although l...

Antibiotic Resistance Pattern and Prevalence of tetA, tetB, tetR, OXA-10 OXA-48 Genes among Escherichia coli Isolates from Toilets in Mashhad Azad University (Iran) 2020

BACKGROUND The objective of this investigation was to detect the presence of Trichinella in some carnivores of Mashhad in northeast of Iran and to identify Trichinella species circulating in this area. METHODS The present study was carried out using muscle tissue collected from 120 stray dogs, 26 wild boars, 25 rodents, two foxes and two hyenas captured in Mashhad City, province of Khorasan R...

*Corresponding author: Amir Reza Sabah. Department of Neurosurgery, Ghaem Hospital, School of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran E-mail: [email protected] Tel: 051-38457069 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons. org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distrib...

abstract climate variability empowers critical consequences on sustainability of soil and water resources. in this paper the trend of annual and seasonal time scale of temperature (minimum, maximum, average), relative humidity (minimum, maximum, average), precipitation, wind speed, extreme events, cloudiness, reference evapotranspiration employing mann-kendall and least square errors were studi...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Preventing oral disease is the most desirable way of ensuring good dental health for children with heart disease. Dental and gingival infections in patients with cardiac problems may lead to infective endocarditis. The aim of this study was to evaluate oral and dental health status in children with heart disease referred to a cardiac center compared with the control group. ...

INTRODUCTION To supply quality services and healthcare, it is evident that medical ethics and patients' rights, while providing medical and healthcare services need to be observed. This study was conducted to evaluate observance of the Patients' Rights Charter among medical staff of educational hospitals affiliated to Mashhad University of Medical Sciences. METHODS This cross-sectional study ...