background : the prevalence of human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) and hepatitis b infections in drug addicts is one of the most important problems of human societies. this study was conducted in order to determine the serologic prevalence of hepatitis b and hiv infections and its relationship with behavioral risk factors in drug addicts in zamzam health center, southern tehran, iran. methods: t...

results after controlling for gender and educational level, we observed statistically significant differences in the modified means between the patients who considered the behavioral risk factors and those who considered the physiological risk factors (p = 0.012, md = 5.03) and between the patients who regarded the behavioral risk factors and those who regarded the psychological risk factors (p...

introduction: there are significant gender differences in the epidemiology and presentation of cardiovascular diseases (cvds), physiological aspects of cvds, response to diagnostic tests or interventions, and prevalence or incidence of the associated risk factors. considering the independent influence of gender on early dire consequences of such diseases, this study was conducted to investigate...

introduction: there are significant gender differences in the epidemiology and presentation of cardiovascular diseases (cvds), physiological aspects of cvds, response to diagnostic tests or interventions, and prevalence or incidence of the associated risk factors. considering the independent influence of gender on early dire consequences of such diseases, this study was conducted to investigate...

When investigating health disparities, it can be of interest to explore whether adjustment for socioeconomic factors at the neighborhood level can account for, or even reverse, an unadjusted difference. Recently, we proposed new methods to adjust the effect of an individual-level covariate for confounding by unmeasured neighborhood-level covariates using complex survey data and a generalization...

This study extends IT ethics research by proposing an IT ethical behavioral model that includes attitude, perceived importance, subjective norms, situational factors, and individual characteristics. The proposed model integrates elements from the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) and Theory of Reasoned Action (TRA) as well as ethical decision-making models. It is hypothesized that behavioral int...

identification of risk factors of acute hepatitis c virus (hcv) infection in egypt is crucial for developing appropriate prevention strategies. there are few community-based studies on the epidemiology and risk factors of hepatitis c infection in egypt, which could not provide enough information. clear identification of past and current risk factors for infection is of utmost importance so that...

the purpose of this research was to identify and prioritize effective factors in social responsibility of professors of islamic azad university of qazvin branch which was conducted in 2014 and 2015. among all statistical population which included 395 professors of the university, 195 professors were selected as statistical subjects from the population. in this research, it was attempted that by...