objective: type 2 diabetes mellitus is a chronic and progressive disease that has reached the epidemic level around the world. in malaysia, according to the third national health and morbidity survey (2006), the prevalence of diabetes has increased to 14.9% from 8.3% in 1996. co-morbid psychological factors such as depression, anxiety, and stress have been shown to be high among type 2 diabetic...

background: healthy dietary habits are known as a key factor for improving brain functions and cognitive ability in children and adolescents. the goal of this study was to evaluate the association of healthy food consumption with mental health in iranian children and adolescents.materials and methods: data were obtained from the fourth national school-based surveillance survey entitled caspian-...

conclusions lack of supervisor support can result in psychological distress leading to symptoms experienced by the employees. results the results showed that there was a significant internal correlation between supervisor support with physical symptoms and psychological distress (p < 0.05). regression analysis indicated that supervisor support significantly reduced the effect of psychological d...

objective: to develop 'moral distress questionnaire' and validate it in a sample of iranian registered nurses. method: 26 registered nurses and 10 professionals attended focused group discussion (fgd) sessions and the acquired qualitative data was analyzed by jameton scale analysis. results: attitudes and definitions of nurses working in private and governmental hospitals of two medical univers...