industrial design is attempting to answer physical, emotional and functional needs of human by including different fields such as product design, transporting design, interaction design and etc. products have various functions and appearances, due to their users’ specifications. industrial design is attempting to answer physical, emotional and functional needs of human by including different fi...

This review of 35 research and anecdotal reports discussing psychosocial barriers to home dialysis explores the challenges and successes of home dialysis from the viewpoints of both patients and nephrology professionals. The literature identified multiple psychosocial barriers to successful home dialysis: physical ability, cognition, patient attitudes toward home dialysis, emotional impact on t...

Background and aims: Diabetes affects all physical, emotional, and psychological aspects of patient’s health. Postmenopausal diabetic women are more susceptible due to their crucial conditions. The emotional regulatory role of vitamin D may be because of the existence of its receptors distributed in brain areas involved in emotional processing and affective disorders. The aim o...

The aim of this article is to understand the reasons for attending a chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)-specific self-management (SM) programme and how attendance at such programmes might be improved. A total of 20 qualitative semistructured interviews were carried out with patients and with lay programme tutors involved in the Better Living with Long term Airways disease (BELLA) pilo...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between childhood maltreatment and alcohol use disorders (AUDs), treatment utilization, and barriers to treatment in a national sample of emerging adults. Multiple types of maltreatment were examined, including childhood emotional abuse and neglect. METHOD The analyses are based on data from 18- to 25-year-olds (N = 4,468) wh...

Introduction : Child abuse is one of the main problems of our community and it includes all aspects of physical, emotional and sexual abuses. This descriptive study was aimed to determine the prevalence rate of child abuse (physical, emotional, and neglect) in Bam city (Kerman/Iran). Methods: In this study, 562 high school students were selected by multistage sampling. Data were gathered by usi...

conclusions this study indicated that health belief model contrasts could predict the risky behavior of university students due to heart disease. however, more researches are needed to verify the predictors of high risky behaviors in students. background disease preventing methods focus mostly on lifestyle factors such as physical activity, healthy diet and not smoking. previous studies verifie...