Relationship between COVID-19-caused Anxiety and Job Burnout among Hospital Staff: A Cross-sectional Study in the Southeast of Iran

background the incidence of inflammatory bowel disease (ibd) varies among different societies. the aim of this study is to determine the incidence rate of ibd in kerman, a city in southeast iran. methods all medical records that indicated a new diagnosis of ulcerative colitis (uc) or crohn`s disease (cd) were retrieved from the gastrointestinal endoscopy and pathology departments of 12 centers ...

Southeast of Iran is an endemic area for Malaria and Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF). In 1999, we faced with an outbreak of CCHF in Sistan and Baluchistan Province, in the border of Pakistan and Afghanistan. The most cases of Malaria in Iran are also reported from this area. This article presents a 17-year- old woman who admitted to our hospital because of acute fever, headache, epistaxi...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to investigate the epidemiological aspects of malignant tumors of head and neck in southeast of Iran, with a view toward analyzing the age, gender and site distribution and histological types. METHODS All cases with malignant tumor of the head and neck region from 1999 to 2009 were retrieved from the records of cancer registry center of Kerman University o...

Despite numerous studies on the prevalence of temporomandibular joint disorders (TMJDs) in adults, those performed in children are limited. This study determined the prevalence of TMJDs in 9−12−year−old Kermanian boy students living in Southeast of Iran. 240 boy students selected by randomized method and studied through a descriptive cross-sectional epidemiologic survey including interviews and...

The lice (Insecta: Phthiraptera) are permanent obligatory ectoparasite of a diverse selection of birds and mammals with a worldwide distribution. This study provides information on the lice species most commonly associated with peacock in Sistan, southeast Iran. There is no previous described study on lice infestation of peacock in Iran. For this aim, Peacock were examined carefully for chewing...

BACKGROUND Genetic diversity has provided Plasmodium falciparum with the potential capacity of avoiding the immune response, and possibly supported the natural selection of drug or vaccine-resistant parasites. Merozoite surface protein-3 (MSP-3) has been used to develop vaccines and investigate the genetic diversity regarding P. falciparum malaria in Iran. OBJECTIVES The main goal of this stu...

BACKGROUND Visceral leishmaniasis (kala-azar) is an endemic disease in some areas of Iran. A cross- sectional study was conducted for sero-epidemiological survey of visceral leishmaniasis (VL) in Baft district from Kerman Province, southeast of Iran. METHODS Blood samples were collected from children up to 12 years old and 10% of adult population from Baft villages with a multi-stage randomiz...

INTRODUCTION Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) is endemic in southeast Iran. In this study we present the epidemiological features of CCHF and its relationship with climate factors in over a 13-year span. METHODOLOGY Surveillance system data of CCHF from 2000 to 2012 were obtained from the Province Health Centre of Zahedan University of Medical Sciences in southeast Iran. The climate dat...