INTRODUCTION Malnutrition remains one of the main public health problems. Over one third of under-five mortality is caused by under nutrition related to inadequate complementary feeding. This study was aimed to assess of complementary feeding practice and associated factors. METHODS Cross sectional study design was conducted to assess complementary feeding practice of mothers to their young c...

introduction: central nervous system develops during the first years of life. millions of synapses form among nervous cells before two years of age. the present research was performed to assess the effects of mothers’ training about complementary feeding and developmental skills on growth and development of 5-7 month infants referring to health centers in city of shiraz in southwest of iran. me...

conclusions this study revealed the noticeable popularity of cam in patients suffering from chronic rheumatologic diseases, mostly due to their dissatisfaction with conventional treatments. patients and methods in this cross-sectional study, 100 randomly selected patients, with different diseases, were questioned about demographic data, disease duration, the type of cam used, reasons, visit int...

AIMS AND BACKGROUND We aimed to evaluate the prevalence of and factors related to the use of complementary/alternative medicine among cancer patients undergoing or following conventional treatment at the Erciyes University Oncology Hospital in Central Anatolia. STUDY DESIGN AND PATIENTS Face-to-face interview and a questionnaire were carried out with cancer patients attending the outpatient c...

background: there are two types of primary dysmenorrhea (spasmodic and congestive) which differ from each other in terms of the time of menstrual cycle outbreak, pain quality and other symptoms. the present study aimed to determine the effect of acupressure at the sanyinjiao point (sp-6) on severity of menstrual symptoms (primary outcome) and the duration of resting time as well as the number o...

background: humans have been involved with the phenomena of pain and pain relief from the ancient times. back pain is the most common pain. in fact, eight out of ten people experience it in their lifetime. however, individuals with specific jobs, including nurses, are faced with this problem more. nursing is in the top ten careers suffering from the most severe musculoskeletal injuries. there a...

abstract background: children suffering from cancer frequently use complementary and alternative medicine (cam). most of people do not disclose using cam to their physicians as they fear to be blamed or prohibited using them. some of these products may interfere with the conventional remedies. the aim of this study was to investigate the frequency and characteristics of cam use in pediatric onc...

in this paper using strongly duplexes we introduce a new class of (semi)hypergroups. the associated (semi)hypergroup from a strongly duplex is called duplex (semi)hypergroup. two computer programs written in matlab show that the two groups $z_{2n}$ and $z_{n}times z_{2}$ produce a strongly duplex and its associated hypergroup is a complementary feasible hypergroup.

the main purpose of this study was to identify and analyze factors affecting development of entrepreneurship in complementary and processing industries of citrus products at khouzestan province, iran. the statistical population of this study consisted of all managers in processing and complementary industries of citrus products in khouzestan province (n=89). by census method all managers were s...