the aim of the present study is to investigate the relationship between obsessive-compulsive symptoms (ocss) and negative and positive symptoms in schizophrenia.subjects of the study comprised of 31 schizophrenia with obsessive-compulsive symptoms (19 men and 12 women) selected by convenience sampling method from iran psychiatric hospital. the diagnoses were established on the basis of dsm-iv-t...

background: despite cultural and religious prohibitions against premarital heterosexual relationships and intimacy, some recent evidence suggests some rise in premarital heterosexual interactions and relationships among young people. on the other hand, although hiv in iran is a concentrated epidemic and mainly reported among high risk groups such as injecting drug users (idus), but there are ev...

objective: behavior management of uncooperative children is an important principle in pediatric dentistry. by adopting an appropriate behavior management technique, pediatric dentists can treat patients more effectively and create a positive attitude towards dentistry in them. this study aimed to assess the attitude of parents presenting to the department of pediatric dentistry at isfahan unive...

background : since risk factors of hypertension are formed during adolescent period and regarding that attitudes change occurs more easily in these ages, the present paper aimed to evaluate the impact of education based on the theory of planned behavior in hypertension prevention behaviors in female adolescent students. methods : in this quasi-experimental study, 160 girls of 12-16 yr old (80 i...

The acoustic signal cues the sounds of spoken language in many ways. Thus, voicing in stop consonants is signalled chiefly by a combination of Voice Onset Time and Fundamental Frequency at voicing onset (Llanos et al., 2013, among others), whereas human listeners distinguish vowels by their duration as well as by the spectral values of their steady-state part (e.g., Ylinen et al., 2009). The we...

one of the basic assumptions of management accounting illustrate that costschanges has a significance relationship with increasing and decreasing in the levelof activity, recently after being raised of sticky costs issue by anderson and hiscolleagues this assumption was discussed. it means increases in costs by increasingthe more activity level of reduction in costs is exchange for the reductio...

objectives: the vineland adaptive behavior scale-ii is useful in assessing an individual’s daily functioning. they can be used as an evaluation and diagnostic tool for individuals who are mentally retarded or individuals with other handicaps. methods: to determine the efficacy of vabs in clinical settings, 3 cases with mental retardation and behavioral or emotional problems were evaluated accor...

objectives: the aim of this research was to study information seeking behavior and the pattern of reading behavior of faculty members of university of social welfare & rehabilitation sciences in using printed and electronic resources. methods: the descriptive research method was a survey method. the research was implemented by using an organized questionnaire which was distributed among the sta...

background: pedestrian injuries are a significant source of mortality and disability among children and prevention of it requires educational strategies and comprehensive approaches. this study was done to determine the effect of health education based on planned behavior theory (tpb) in promotion of safe behaviors in crossing the road among students, who are in four-grade in the primary school...