background: mental disorders may lead to several complications in adolescents’ people whose compensation is very difficult and sometime impossible. they are prone to emotional problems. therefore, knowing prevalence of diseases and valid statistical technique is necessary to plan for prevention and control of diseases. methods: in this cross-sectional study; direct, synthetic, and post-stratifi...

PRIMARY OBJECTIVE The purpose was to evaluate a new self-reporting scale for assessment of mental fatigue and its usefulness in describing mental fatigue after neurological diseases and injuries. Mental fatigue is suggested to comprise a spectrum of items including sensory, emotional and cognitive symptoms. METHODS AND PROCEDURES Mental fatigue and related symptoms were measured with a self-a...

introduction: in spite of the vast improvement in the area of mental health care delivery in this country, very little attention has been given to the mental health registry. considering the absence of an appropriate national mental health registry system in iran, the purpose of the present study was to formulate a preliminary model for mental health registry in iran. methods: in this comparati...

ABsrRAcr: Cells, tissues, organs, and human beings qua biological organisms have natural functions, but human beings qua moral agents do not. Persons-in-society, unlike organs-in-bodies, are the products of culture as well as nature. Bodily diseases, conventionally defined, are undesirable deviations from objectively identifiable biological norms. Mental diseases, similarly defined, are undesir...

OBJECTIVE To estimate the impact of occupational diseases in Spain in terms of incidence and prevalence and to compare them with the notifications actually made. DESIGN Data of incidence and prevalence were obtained from studies carried out in Spain and in other countries. These studies were mostly based on epidemiological investigations, occupational diseases monitoring systems and surveys w...