BACKGROUND Measurement of life quality as an index of health status has a widespread application in health care domain. OBJECTIVES The current study aimed to determine the quality of life of referents to addiction cessation centers of Iran. PATIENTS AND METHODS In this cross-sectional study, 988 addicts who had referred to addiction cessation centers in Shahroud were studied through SF-36 q...

BACKGROUND This study aimed at determining the drug abuse pattern and the frequency of high-risk behaviors among the clients of Methadone Maintenance Treatment Centers and Drop-in Centers in Shahroud County of Semnan Province. METHODS In this cross-sectional study, the data collection tool was a questionnaire including 10 general and 32 specific items about drug abuse pattern and high-risk be...

BACKGROUND Reported age standardized incidence rates for esophageal cancer in Iran are 0.88 and 6.15 for females and males, at fifth and the eighth ranks, respectively, of cancers overall. The present study aimed to map relative risk using more realistic and less problematic methods than common estimators. MATERIALS AND METHODS In this ecological investigation, the studied population consiste...

The purpose of this research is to study any effects of managerial strategies on prevention of ketosis metabolic disorder in transition period in Shahroud commercial dairy farms. For this purpose, a questionnaire was prepared in order to obtain required information about the performance of these managerial strategies, performance costs, involvement situation with disorders relying upon clinical...

BACKGROUND One of the elements of the broadening focus of health care beyond its traditional and restricted concept has been the increasing adoption quality of life approach to health care research and practice. OBJECTIVES To investigate the QOL of women in the third trimester of pregnancy and at 8 weeks postpartum and factors associated with the overall QOL. MATERIALS AND METHODS Three hun...

the effect of parents empowerment program on their beliefs about parental role, behaviors and characteristics of their premature infants in nicu    khajeh m [1] *, karimi r [2] , sadat hosseini as [3]     received: 14 apr , 2013 accepted: 20 jun , 2013  abstract  background & aims : about 10 percents of infants are born prematurely and their hospitalization is avoidable in many cases. this even...

BACKGROUND Neck and shoulder pains are the prevalent complaints among computer office workers. The purpose of this study was to assess the relationship of somatization tendency, expectation of pain, mental health and beliefs about causation of pain with persistence of neck/shoulder pains among computer office workers. METHODS This research is a kind of prospective cohort study with 1-year fol...