background: despite cultural and religious prohibitions against premarital heterosexual relationships and intimacy, some recent evidence suggests some rise in premarital heterosexual interactions and relationships among young people. on the other hand, although hiv in iran is a concentrated epidemic and mainly reported among high risk groups such as injecting drug users (idus), but there are ev...

abstract background: women’s sexual self‑esteem is one of the most important factors that affect women’s sexual satisfaction and their sexual anxiety. various aspects of sexual life are blended with the entire personality. determining the relationship between personality traits and self‑concept aspects such as sexual self‑esteem leads to better understanding of sexual behavior in people with di...

background :this study was performed to evaluate the effect of stoppa hernia repair on sexual function of the patients with bilateral inguinal hernia.   methods: in a prospective follow-up study, 50 patients with bilateral inguinal hernia were investigated to assess sexual function before and 1 and 6 months after standardized stoppahernioplasty using the international index of erectile function...

background: infertility makes an essential challenge to the sexual life of couples, especially infertile women. when pregnancy does not happen, infertile women think that sexual intercourse is not fruitful and sexual desire became reduce gradually. infertile women progressively forget that their sexual relationship is also a response to their natural need. objective: this qualitative study was ...

objectives the present study aimed at investigating the effects of lifestyle changes on the sexual function of patients undergoing hemodialysis. patients and methods in a mono group quasi-experimental study, 37 subjects (21 males and 16 females) were selected among available patients using convenience sampling. the population included all the patients undergoing hemodialysis treatment in the ye...

conclusions lower estimations in the nsu method might be due to the transmission barrier, which means that students were not fully aware of the high-risk behaviors of their close friends. nonetheless, it seems that these risky behaviors were more or less common among iranian college students. results the estimated prevalence using the cm and nsu were alcohol consumption (16.8% vs. 8.1%), opium ...

objective: parents are believed to be among the most influential adults who have a deterministic role in the success of interventional programs on adolescents' reproductive health. the aim of this study is to describe parents' perceptions and attitudes towards adolescent reproductive needs, experiences and associated factors. method: a population-based study of 539 parents of adolescent boys, a...

background people living with hiv (plhiv) are highly stigmatized and consequently hard-to-access by researchers and importantly, public health outreach in iran, possibly due to the existing socio-cultural situation in this country. the present study aimed to evaluate the sexual and reproductive health needs of plhiv in tehran, the capital of iran.   methods as a mixed-method descriptive study, ...