improvements in knowledge as well as technology and industrial workers’ exposure to adverse factors have caused more attention to be paid to the workers’ occupational health. according to the report by w.h.o., noise, as one of the most important physical factors of workplace, causes 4 million dollars health damage every day. noise can also reduce the workers’ morale as well as motivation and, c...

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 ...

introduction: elder abuse may increase the vulnerability of ageing people to disease and decrease their general health status, so addressing the issue is essential for promoting elderly quality of life. the study aimed to examine the relation between abuse experience and general health among elderly people in yazd city- iran. methods: the cross-sectional study carried out on 250 community-dwell...

objectives: the purpose of this study was to explore the general health status in women as care givers of the elderly people with alzheimer who attending to the iranian association of alzheimer’s disease. methods & materials: in this descriptive –cross sectional study as a introductory stage of a randomized controlled field trial, 150 women were recruited with a consecutive sampling method. the...

background the 12-item general health (ghq-12) questionnaire is one of the most commonly used instruments in screening studies on mental health. objectives the current study aimed to examine the factor structure of the ghq-12 questionnaire among the students in iran. materials and methods it was a cross-sectional study in which 428 university students were recruited and completed the ghq-12. re...

background: this study sought the relationship between social support, mental health and demographic factors in new students of tehran university (2005-06). methods: this cross-sectional descriptive study enrolled 2916 university students. subjects were evaluated using demographic questionnaire, general health questionnaire-12 and social support scale. statistical analysis was performed by anov...

the aim of this study was to investigate the mental health state of high school students of hamideyh branch ahvaz city. the present survey was an analytical study. a sample of 305 (93 girl and 212 boy) students was selected using random stratified sampling and proportion and base of krejcie and morgan table from primary to college years high school students in suburb of ahvaz township and compl...

objectives: the aim of this study was to assess the mental health of patients admitted in internal medicine, surgery and gynecology wards of imam khomeini hospital of tehran in 2009. method: the symptom checklist-90-r (scl-90-r) questionnaire was administered for 93 patients in internal, surgical and gynecological wards of imam khomeini hospital in 2009. result: in this study, the mean age was ...