In order to determine the predictive validity of the premarital inventory PREPARE, this study assessed the utility of PREPARE in predicting marital success. A 3-year follow-up study was conducted with 164 couples who took PREPARE during their engagement. As hypothesized, it was found that satisfied couples scored significantly higher on the inventory than dissatisfied couples, divorced couples,...

Various factors may influence matrimonial adaptability among couples, one of which is infertility. Hence, the present study was conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of excitement-focused therapy on increasing matrimonial adaptability of infertile couples. The present study was a quasi-experimental one. The sample in this study was composed of 12 couples (6 couples of infertile males and 6 co...

background and purpose: despite extensive research on family planning and education, reproductive behavior of high-risk couples for thalassemia remains a major concern among medical professionals. this study aimed to evaluate the knowledge and attitude of carrier couples for transfusion-dependent thalassemia major (tdtm). methods: this case-control study was conducted 327 carrier couples for th...

NiCo2O4 (NCO) films grown on MgAl2O4 (001) substrates have been studied using magnetometry and x-ray magnetic circular dichroism based absorption spectroscopy spin-polarized inverse photoemission with various thicknesses down to 1.6 nm. The behavior can be understood in terms of a layer optimal NCO an interfacial (1.2 ± 0.1 nm), small canting magnetization at the surface. thickness dependence d...

Absorption and emission of light is studied theoretically for excited atoms in coherent superposition states subjected to isolated attosecond pulses the extreme ultraviolet range. A gauge-invariant formulation transient absorption theory motivated using energy operator from Yang's gauge theory. The interaction, which simultaneously couples both bound continuum states, simulated by solving time-...

abstract background: infertility is a major psychosocial crisis as well as being a medical problem. the factors that predict psychosocial consequences of infertility may vary in different gender and different infertile populations. objective: the primary purpose of this study was to investigate whether turkish infertile couples had higher levels of depression and anxiety when compared to non-in...

abstract background a vast variety of factors may cause recurrent pregnancy loss. blood group incompatibility of parents could cause abortion. the examination of couples or twins, blood groups showed that the blood group incompatibility can affect adversely the outcome of pregnancy. couples with blood group incompatibility are more involved in spontaneous miscarriage. antigenes in two different...

background:   objective: this study was conducted to determine the clinical patterns and major causes of infertility in mazandaran province in north of iran.   materials and methods: the medical records of 3734 consecutive couples attending two infertility clinics in mazandaran province, from 2003 to 2008, were reviewed. the couples had not had a viable birth after at least 1 year of unprotecte...

background chromosomal abnormality plays an important role in different types of miscarriages. objectives the present study was designed to investigation chromosomal anomalies in three groups of couples with recurrent abortion (ra), spontaneous abortion (sa) and still birth (sb). patients and methods in this retrospective study, the frequency of chromosomal aberrations was investigated among 26...

conclusions metacognitive regulation strategies are more considerable prediction than emotional regulation strategies in sd group than in ad group. individuals with ad use alcohol as a means of both cognitive and emotional regulation strategy. patients and methods according to dsm-iv tr criteria, 45 patients with alcohol dependence (ad), 44 patients with substance dependence (sd), and 43 volunt...