background : child abuse is a big social and health problem. this study aimed to compare child abuse by parents among healthy children and those with chronic diseases. methods: this was a descriptive comparative study between two groups carried out in 2007 in isfahan. the samples included 212 children of 11 to 18 years old, 106 of them were referring to the health centers of the isfahan univers...

background and objectives: prayer is one of the most important religious ordinances and is one of the necessities of islam. in spite of the progression of medicine science, it is sometimes seen that the mundane subjects become hopeless in curing physical diseases and this time, the hopeless man appeals to the lord god. this review study was conducted to examine the positive and negative views r...

BACKGROUND Youth with chronic physical health problems often experience social and emotional problems. We investigate the relationship between participation in the Big Brothers Big Sisters of Canada community-based mentoring programs (BBBS) and youth social and mood outcomes by youth health status. METHODS Youth newly enrolled in BBBS were classified by health status (one or more chronic phys...

Introduction: Bronchiectasis is a common problem in children and early diagnosis can lead to early treatment and prevent of its complications. This study was aimed to evaluate factors effective on outcome of bronchiectasis in children. Methods: In an analytical cross-sectional study, 347 children with bronchiectasis Underwent the study. the patients were diagnosed based on chronic suppurative c...

BACKGROUND Chronic musculoskeletal pain is a major health problem among older adults, particularly those who live alone and/or those who are dependent on formal care. Chronic pain is associated with mobility problems, falls, fear of falling, catastrophizing thoughts, and a lower quality of life. Research shows that physical therapy interventions based on behavioral medicine approaches are benef...

recognizing patients at a higher risk of developing chronic low back pain (lbp) is important in industrial medicine. this study aimed to assess the power and quality of general health questionnaire (ghq) for prediction of the odds of chronicity of acute lbp. this study was conducted on industrial workers. all subjects with acute lbp who met the inclusion criteria were enrolled. demographic char...

We have used the recently published varying physical constants (VPC) approach to resolve primordial lithium abundance problem. The value of ratio $7Li$ hydrogen $7Li/H=1.400(\pm 0.023){\times}10^{-10}$ we calculated using this is about four times lower than that estimated standard lambda cold dark matter (${\Lambda}$CDM) cosmological model, and consistent with most agreed observational $1.6(\pm...

introduction: although the incidence and prevalence of chronic suppurative otitis media (csom) has been decreased in recent decades, but it is still a major health problem in both developing and developed countries. csom can cause major and life-threatening complications such as hearing loss, meningitis and cerebral abscess. since hearing loss is the most common complication of csom, we aimed t...