introduction: newborn hearing screening leads to the early detection of hearing impairment. the aim of screening is to decrease or remove the effect of hearing impairment on development of speech and language by timely diagnosis and effective treatment. a number of risk factors lead to delayed start of decreased hearing ability including: 1. congenital infection with cytomegalovirus  (cmv) viru...

background : noise pollution is one of the important issues of pollutant in workplaces and is almost one of the harmful agents for workers. at present, instrumental based inspections for determining the index levels of noise in workshops is performed. this method is requiring a time consuming and ex-pensive in large scale inspection for workplaces. classification of workplaces based on noise po...

background: organized cervical screening program has led to prevention of cervical cancer prevention worldwide. women’s knowledge and attitudes is linked to their participation in cervical screening. objective: we studied the knowledge, attitudes and practices (kap) of women about cervical cancer prevention and the related factors in tehran, i.r. of iran. methods: trained interviewers used a va...

introduction: increasing incidence of cancers, particularly breast cancer (the third cause of death in iran), the role of information in decision making, policymaking and planning, and the need to assess the status of breast cancer in the country and the world necessitated a research to describe the advantages and disadvantages of the existing information on breast cancer patients. the present ...

background: glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (g6pd) deficiency is the most common disease of the hexose monophosphate pathway existing in more than 400 million people worldwide. the aim of this study was to identify neonates with g6pd deficiency following national program for screening and education of affected newborns’ parents started since june 2007 in mazandaran, a northern province of ira...

there is strong and consistent evidence that eating disorders are prevalent in sport and especially in weight sensitive sports such as endurance, weight category and aesthetic sports as well as jumping events. these illnesses are not only common but lead to significant physical and psychological morbidity and impaired performances. sports organizations, and by extension the professionals whose ...

background: computerized preventive screening software is a cost effective intervention tool to address non-communicable chronic diseases. shiraz smart screening software (ssss) was developed as an innovative tool for qualified screening. it allows simultaneous smart screening of several high-burden chronic diseases and supports reminder notification functionality. the extent in which ssss affe...

to provide the validated and standardized form of the persian version of the ages and stages questionnaires as an appropriate developmental screening tool for evaluation of iranian children's development.this was a cross-sectional study. translation and back-translation, content validity determination, cultural and lingual modifications, pilot study on 100 parents and inter-rater reliability de...

background: thalassemia is the most common monogenic disease in south-east of iran. despite the 70% reduction in iranian thalassemia cases after thalassemia control comprehensive program, 601 affected babies were born in sistan and balouchistan province, iran from 2002 to 2010, so this study aims at investigating the causes of new thalassemia cases. methods: data from this retrospective cross-s...

objective: depression is the most common co-morbid psychiatric disorder in patients with epilepsy. yet it remains under recognized and under-treated. for depression screening in this patient need to a convenient questionnaire for patients with epilepsy. this questionnaire has shown high sensitivity for depression screening in many studies. the center for epidemiological studies depression scale...