background : this study aimed at revaluating the psychosocial disabilities in schizophrenic patients. methods : in an analytic-descriptive setting, schizophrenic patients were evaluated in razi university hospital during a one-year period (2009-10). the study group consisted of male and female patients aged 18-65 years, with the onset of disease for a minimum of 2 years and at least one psychol...

abstract aim and background: parenting styles are particular methods that parents use of them in nurturing of their children.the aim of this study was comparing parenting styles of mothers of pre-school children with and without intellectual disabilities. method and material: this is a causal-comparative research.the statistical population of this research includes the whole mothers of pre-scho...

background : the number of children with cochlear implants who have other difficulties such as attention deficiency and cerebral palsy has increased dramatically. despite the need for information on the results of cochlear implantation in this group, the available literature is extremely limited. we, therefore, sought to compare the levels of auditory perception in children with cochlear implan...

in attention to the role of relationship between child and parents in child development, the purpose of the present study was to determine the relationship of anxiety in students with learning disabilities based on parenting style. this study was causal-comparative design. study population included all parents of children with learning disabilities attending special centers during academic year...

objectives: the needs and problems of students with physical-motor disabilities should be properly identified in order to solve them. the main purpose of this research was to determine the needs and problems of iranian male students with physical-motor disabilities in the education and employment dimensions.  methods: this was a descriptive study. all the male students with physical-motor disab...

objectives the aim of the present study was to investigate the relationship between attitude towards oneself, the world and the future, and parental stress in mothers of children with learning disability. methods the population of the study was all mothers that had a child with learning disabilities, studying in learning disabilities special schools during academic year 2014 - 2015, in ahvaz. t...

BACKGROUND People with disabilities are 1.5 times more likely to smoke than their peers without disabilities, intensifying risk of health related disparities and further loss of function. When compared with the general population, college students also have a higher smoking prevalence. This study explores smoking rates among college students with disabilities. OBJECTIVE/HYPOTHESIS College stu...

BACKGROUND Prior research has shown a high prevalence of sexual violence against women with disabilities. However, no previous population-based studies have examined such victimization against men with disabilities. PURPOSE The purpose of this paper is to document the prevalence of lifetime and past-year sexual violence victimization among a representative sample of men with disabilities in M...