background: the postpartum period is a critical life event for women leading physical, emotional, and social changes. postpartum quality-of-life may be affected by delivery mode. the purpose of this study was to determine the association between postpartum health related quality-of-life (hrqol) and mode of delivery. materials and methods: in a prospective study, 300 women consisting of 150 vagi...

background: parents of children with developmental problems are always bearing a load of stress. the aim of this study is to compare the stress in mothers of children with different disabilities to each other, considering their demographic background. materials and methods: this was a cross-sectional study conducted in isfahan, iran during 2012 on 285 mothers of 6-12 years old children with chr...

background: the coronary artery bypass grafting (cabg) is performed to completely or partially relieve the symptoms of coronary heart disease (chd). one of the most important goals of this operation is the improvement of quality of life (qol). the data obtained on healthrelated quality of life (hrqol) represents the functional limitations and the alleviation of symptoms among patients. many fac...

People with serious mental illness (SMI) have greatly increasing morbidity and mortality from physical illness than the general population. This results in a 25 to 30 year shorter life expectancy with cardiovascular disease being the leading cause of death 1 . It has been suggested that current policy, services and health promotion actions are ineffective in targeting physical illness in this p...

attitudes to humankind will have different effects on health service delivery. health might used to be intended to provide physical health in the past; today, however, many researchers and clinicians consider the concept health to be beyond physical health. in support of this claim, it is enough to indicate that the bio-psycho-social model has for years been held by scientific communities to be...

1Department of General Psychiatry 1, Institute of Mental Health, Singapore 2Offi ce of Clinical Sciences, Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School, Singapore 3Schizophrenia Division, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Canada 4Neuroscience & Behavioral Disorders, Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School, Singapore 5Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Canada Address for Correspondence: Dr Jimmy...

background: adolescence is a critical stage of growth and development. that is associated with changes in body shape and appearance. issues such as irregular menstrual periods, amenorrhea, and menstrual cycle are major issues in women's health. the purpose of this study was to examine the determinants of physical puberty health based on the health belief model (hbm) among female adolescents.   ...

background: adolescence is a critical stage of growth and development. that is associated with changes in body shape and appearance. issues such as irregular menstrual periods, amenorrhea, and menstrual cycle are major issues in women's health. the purpose of this study was to examine the determinants of physical puberty health based on the health belief model (hbm) among female adolescent...