The prevalence of psychiatric disorder in 100 patients attending their general practitioner was found to be 33% based on the criteria of the DSM-3 diagnostic system. Using the DSM-3 diagnosis as a yardstick, the performance of the hospital anxiety depression scale was compared with that of the general health questionnaire. Relative operating coefficient analysis showed good discrimination betwe...

Introduction: Adolescents are the important portions of the Iranian population. Adolescents health status has a critical role in their learning ability and their performance. The present study aimed to determine the predictive factors for general health status in Iranian high school students in 2014. Materials and methods: In a cross-sectional study evaluated the predictive factors for general...

improvements in knowledge as well as technology and industrial workers’ exposure to adverse factors have caused more attention to be paid to the workers’ occupational health. according to the report by w.h.o., noise, as one of the most important physical factors of workplace, causes 4 million dollars health damage every day. noise can also reduce the workers’ morale as well as motivation and, c...

background: religious belief is one of the most important factors in people’s life that can affect their mental health. the aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between religious belief and mental health among high school students in dargaz city, khorasan razavi province, iran, 2010-2011. methods: this cross-sectional study was performed on 157 high school students selected by ...

BACKGROUND Diagnosis of depressive disorder using interviewer-administered instruments is expensive and frequently impractical in large epidemiological surveys. The aim of this study was to assess the validity of three self-completion measures of depressive disorder and other psychiatric disorders in older people against an interviewer-administered instrument. METHOD A random sample stratifie...

The impact of ICT (information and communication technology) on economic performance has been the subject of academic research for several decades, and despite the remarkable and significant innovation in computer technology, usage, and investments, only a small growth in productivity was observed. This observations has been coined the productivity paradox. Usingmeta-analysis, my paper answers ...

On administering the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ) in English, Gujarati and Marathi, to 500 non-acutely ill adult patients selected randomly from a General Hospital Out-patient Department, it was found that 57% scored high (12 and above), indicating the possibility of psychiatric morbidity in this group. On subjecting 50 of these patients to blind psychiatric evaluation a misclassification...

Subjective well-being can be measured in different ways, depending on the conceptual perspective one adopts. Hedonic well-being, emphasising emotions and evaluation, is often contrasted with eudemonic well-being, stressing self-actualisation and autonomy. In this paper we investigate the background, structure and compatibility of empirical measures of hedonic and eudemonic well-being in the Eng...