OBJECTIVE Determining the prevalence and psychosocial factors associated with public university students' legal and illegal substance consumption. METHOD This was across-sectional study of 1,359 randomly selected students. The harvesting instrument included the CAGE questionnaire and VESPA,WHO, Rosenberg, Francis and APGAR scales. The Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) was use...

asthma has been linked to family disfunctioning and poor control of the disease. this study was conducted to analyze the interactions between the level of intermittent asthma control, family functioning and respiratory function and between quality of life of asthmatic patients and their caregivers. 7 to 15 years old children with intermittent asthma were included. asthma control test questionna...

INTRODUCTION Studies show that dysfunctional family relationships are important predictors of addictions to all psychoactive substances. OBJECTIVE To establish if there is a connection between family relations and heroin addiction and if found to exist, what is the quality of this connection. SUBJECTS AND METHODS This research was conducted on the sample comprised of 160 subjects divided in...

Background & Aims: The purpose of the present study was to investigate the effects of Stress Inoculation Training [SIT] on patients with dysfunctional attitudes and primary hypertension. Methods: The study sample included 60 subjects with primary hypertension (32 females & 28 males) referred to special clinics in Ahwaz. Those who had primary hypertension and dysfunctional attitudes based on Bec...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to determine the effect of psychosocial factors on the age at menarche of girls in Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (FBH). SUBJECTS AND METHODS A cross-sectional study was conducted from September 2002 to May 2003 in all Cantons of the FBH. The random stratified sample included 19.803 girls aged 9.0 to 17.5 years. Data were collected using the status qu...

The present study aimed to evaluate a path analytic model accounting for caregivers' psychological distress that takes into account perceived family cohesion and flexibility, expressed emotion and caregiver's burden associated with the presence of mental illness in the family. 50 first-episode and 50 chronic patients diagnosed with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder (most recent episode manic se...

OBJECTIVE: To determine the percentage of family caregivers of persons with spinal cord injury (SCI) with probable depression and to test the hypothesis that dysfunctional problem-solving abilities would be significantly predictive of risk status after taking into account important demographic characteristics and caregiver health. DESIGN: Correlational and logistic regression analyses of data c...