patients and methods the study sample included 50 patients with schizophrenia in tuba rehabilitation center in ardabil selected by available sampling method. healthy group participants were selected through cloning by age, gender and marital status of the patient group. the data were collected by the questionnaire of holmes-rahe scale and cohen et al. data were analyzed by multivariate anova (m...

aim: tobacco use is one of the major causes of death worldwide and the most preventable risk factor of the coronary heart disease. the purpose of this study was to determine attitudes, risk perception and perceived vulnerability toward to water pipe (wp) smoking among male students in zarandieh city of iran. methods: this cross-sectional descriptive study was carried out on 400 male adolescents...

following the changes in the paradigm of urban studies in recent years, sustainability has become an increasingly important issue in the neighborhood’s planning and designing. however, this concept has originally been developed for american and european neighborhoods’ planning, it could also be customized for other neighborhoods’. additionally, in the neighborhood scale, the quality parameter f...

recently, the world health organization has made the need for countries to improve the school context and enhance the health of students at the school in terms of quality of life. this study aimed to determine the relation between improvement, adventure, social solidarity and opportunity with perceived stress among students. during the correlational qualitative research, among the population of...

years of age worldwide (39%). also in iran it is the cause of 45% of deaths. cardiovascular diseases place a huge social, economic and health burden on the society. patients suffer from this disease when they are at their highest social and economic productivity. the risk of this disease is related to modifiable factors such as smoking and high blood pressure, and also non-modifiable factors su...

Most surfaces reflect light from external sources, but others emit light: they glow. Glowing surfaces are often a sign of an important feature of the environment, such as a heat source or a bioluminescent life form, but we know little about how the human visual system identifies them. Previous work has shown that luminance and luminance gradients are important in glow perception [1,2]. While a ...

background: epileptic seizures would result in embarrassment in society and have some negative impact on the patients' social activities. the aim of this study was to show the perceived impact of epilepsy by patients on different aspect of their social activities including occupation, marriage and education. methods: we studied 179 epileptic patients aged 16 years and over using face to face in...