BACKGROUND Oral and dental health diseases can affect the general health of students. OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to identify the predictors of oral and dental health behavior using the health belief model (HBM) in female students in Teheran, Iran. PATIENTS AND METHODS This was a cross-sectional study framed by the HBM, including 400 female students living in district 5 of Tehran, ...

Teaching ethics to nurses leads to their involvement in providing high quality care, enable them to duly encounter ethical issues. One of the key elements of educational systems is nursing instructors. Even though lots of studies show the role of instructors in students' learning, their role in promotion of professional ethics has been attended to less. The objective of this study is surveying ...

this paper reports trichotillomania in eight iranian children (7 girls and 1 boy) .it is rarely seen in children and adolescents. although some subjects are psychiatrically normal, but some suffer from depressive disorder, neurosis, or personality problems. separation from key figure, denial of femininity/and inadequate mother-child relationship play important roles either in the etiology of tr...

in this paper the breast lesions, more particularly the carcinomas. have been studied in the taj pahlavi cancer institute, teheran , iran, from 1956 through 1971. in this period of 15 years the number of breast lesions observed have been 2107 cases of which 1023 cases or 48.5 %have had reference to carcinomas especially among women, the ratio of females to males suffering from this type oflesio...

From 23,231 total admission to three chil­dren's hospitals in Teheran over 3years and 6 months to 8 years period, 83 patients were found to have diabetes, 23 per thousand. The incidence of diabetes in children in­creases with age and is maximum in adoles­cence.  In 83 diabetic children 59 were male and 24 female (F /M:(0.4.)  From 83 diabetic patients 25 (31.2p.c.) were admitted with ketoacid...

Epidemics of methanol poisoning happen across the globe. There are prognostic factors associated with morbidity or mortality from methanol poisoning. Recently we have compared retrospective observational case series of methanol-poisoned patients from Norway (1979 and 2002-2005), Estonia (2001) and Tunisia (2003/2004), and patients from two different centers in Iran (Teheran 2004-2009 and Mashha...

Sur une periode de un an (mars 1974 :1 mars 1975) 572 enfants ont ete hospitalises dans le service de pedia­trie du C.H.U. LOGMANDOLEH ADHAM, de l'Univer­site Nationale d'lran. a Teheran. 69 deces ont ete consta­tes (] 3 "{, des malades admis) dont les 3/4 concernaient les enfants ages de moins de 24 mois, l'autopsie a ete effec­tuce chez 73,8';{, des enfants decedes dans le service. En­viron 4...