hiv/aids because of its transmission methods has cultural, social and psychiatric impacts on patients especially in islamic countries. we investigated depression frequency in an iranian referral center for hiv/aids patients. all patients attending the counseling centre of imam khomeini hospital during 2006 and 2007 who agreed to participate were enrolled. depression was measured by beck depress...

introduction & objective :without doubt, the largest human society’s misfortune after second world war is aids world conquering . at present , the best way of combat is to prevent the disease . giving knowledge to the health personnels and their understanding about risk factors of the disease can promote health and prevention of disease propagation . therefore this study has been done in order ...

objective: studies have identified high prevalence of depression among people living with hiv/aids, but only few studies have looked into this association in this environment. the objectives were to determine the prevalence of major depressive disorder, associated socio-demographic and psychosocial variables in people living with hiv/aids attending an out-patient clinic at the olabisi onabanjo ...

background: hiv and aids have many different epidemiological, social and political aspects. the aim of this study was to determine the research priorities according to the necessary aspects of hiv and aids in iran. methods: the national and international databases were searched to obtain the published articles regarding hiv and aids in iran. all epidemiologic studies were included in this revie...

background: hiv/aids control are one of the most important goals of the health systems. the aim of this study was to determine how hiv/aids control was initiated among policy makers' agenda setting in iran.   methods: a qualitative research (semi-structured interview) was conducted using kingdon's framework (problem, policy and politics streams, and policy windows and policy entrepreneurs) to a...

This study aimed to investigate the effect of visual aids on elementary Iranian EFL learners’ vocabulary learning. To achieve the aim of the study, 60 elementary EFL learners were selected based on their performance on proficiency test. After administering the pretest, the participants of the experimental group received vocabulary visually. The teacher used different kinds of strategies such as...

this study investigated the effect of using visual aids, semantic elaboration, and visual aids plus semantic elaboration on the iranian efl learners' vocabulary learning. to conduct the study, the researchers assigned 49 elementary learners to three homogeneous groups according to their proficiency level. then, a pre-test of paribakht and wesche's vocabulary knowledge scale was given ...