this survey-study carried out among 360 randomly selected farmers living in drought-prone areas of fars province, iran, set out to investigate the perceptions and psychologi-cal coping strategies of farmers when facing drought. results showed that farmers per-ceived drought as a threat to all of their resources (material, conditions, personal, social and energies) and used emotion-focused and r...

summary: adult-onset still’s disease (aosd) is a rare systemic inflammatory disorder of unknown etiology. it is characterized by high grade fever, skin rash, arthritis, leukocytosis, increased esr, crp and liver enzyme levels and high levels of ferritin. the treatment of aosd includes nsaids, steroids, and disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (dmards). recently biologic agents have been used f...

conclusions sexual activity in last week of pregnancy might be associated with the onset of labor. therefore, in the absence of complications in term pregnancy, sexual activity can be considered as a natural way to prevent post term pregnancy. background pregnancy is one of the most critical periods in women's lives. sexual relationships change in this period. monitoring of uterine contractions...

the organic deposition particularly asphaltenes has many detrimental effects on the oil industries, such as plugging in pipelines, wellbore and facilities and subsequently, considerable reduction in well productivity.asphaltenes are the most polar fractions, which they have been dispersed as colloidal clusters in crude oil. the accumulation of these clusters lead to the flocculation of colloids...

behcet's disease (bd) is a multisystemic inflammatory disease that occurs most often between the second and fourth decade of life. patients have been reported during the first months of life and after 70 years. our objective was to determine the clinical, paraclinical and genetic characteristics of bd in patients aged < 20 and > 40 years. we conducted a comparative retrospective study including...

background: maturity-onset diabetes of the young (mody) is a heterogeneous entity of monogenic disorders characterized by autosomal dominant inheritance. eleven genes were related, including hnf4α, gck, hnf1α, ipf1, and hnf-1β, and various mutations are being reported. methods: to help the overall understanding of mody-related pathologic mutations, we studied a large mody family found in 2012, ...

how to cite this article: najafi mr, najafi ma, safaei a. association of family history of epilepsy with earlier age onset of juvenile myoclonic epilepsy. iran j child neurol. spring 2016; 10(2):10-15. abstract objective juvenile myoclonic epilepsy (jme) is supposedly the most frequent subtype of idiopathic generalized epilepsies (ige). the aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of j...

background one of the strategies for a good outcome and pain free childbearing is to design the delivery room. objectives the aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of snoezelen room on childbearing outcome such as pain intensity, duration of labor, and perinea status in nulliparous women. patients and methods this study was a randomized controlled clinical trial consists of 100 childbea...

psoas abscesses could originate from an adjacent source of infection in the abdominopelvic cavity known as a secondary complication of acute appendicitis. however, it is considered as a very rare event when occurring late after the presentation of appendicitis. whether it is the source or complication of acute appendicitis following appendectomy remains unclear. a 25-year-old man was admitted t...

background familial mediterranean fever (fmf) is an autosomal recessive disorder characterized by sporadic, paroxysmal attacks of fever and serosal inflammation. although the disease usually begins before the age of 20 years, we aimed to evaluate the demogra­phy, clinical features and treatment outcome of familial mediter­ranean fever in iranian adult patients above 20 years old. methods in thi...