BACKGROUND In order to provide a better healthcare education to the society, health care students should have an acceptable electronic health (E-Health) literacy. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to assess the level of E-Health literacy of Medicine and Health Sciences university students in Mashhad, Iran. METHODS This cross-sectional study was performed on 192 students of Mashhad Univers...

Background and Aim: Phonological awareness skills, as part of phonological processing abilities, can predict the extent success in acquiring written reading skills. skills are concern children with severe profound hearing loss, which has been less studied this population. Thus, study aimed to evaluate these Cochlear-Implanted (CI) compare them their healthy counterparts. Methods & Materials...

BACKGROUND Tobacco consumption is the second major cause of death and the fourth most common risk factor for diseases, worldwide. Epidemiologic studies have traced the use of alcohol, tobacco, and illicit substances among medical students and physicians. OBJECTIVES The current study aimed to investigate the prevalence of cigarette smoking and the related factors among the students of medical ...

INTRODUCTION Toxic mushrooms are distributed across the globe with over 5000 species. Among them, 100 species are responsible for most of the cases of mushroom poisoning. This study aimed to evaluate the epidemiologic pattern of mushroom poisoning among patients referred to the main toxicology center of Mashhad province located in North-east of Iran. METHOD This cross-sectional study was cond...

Depth image based rendering techniques for multiview applications have been recently introduced for efficient view generation at arbitrary camera positions. Encoding rate control has thus to consider both texture and depth data. Due to different structures of depth and texture images and their different roles on the rendered views, distributing the available bit budget between them however requ...

Objective: The aim of this study was to report common presentations of Budd-Chiari syndrome (BCS) and the early outcome of different treatment methods in two tertiary hospitals in Iran. Subjects and Methods: This case series study was performed on 21 patients (mean age: 42 8 13.09 years; 11 male, 52.4%, and 10 female, 47.6%) admitted for treatment of BCS in two tertiary referral centers in Mash...

OBJECTIVE The aim of the present study was to investigate the epidemiology of psychiatric disorders in children and adolescents in five provinces of Iran: Tehran, Shiraz, Isfahan, Tabriz and Mashhad. METHOD In the present study, we selected 9,636 children and adolescents aged 6-18 years through multistage cluster random sampling method from Tehran, Shiraz, Isfahan, Tabriz and Mashhad. We inst...