Background and purpose: Cancer is a major cause of death worldwide and gastric cancer with high mortality rate is one of the leading causes of cancer-related death. Understanding the epidemiology of gastric cancer could be of great benefit. However, no clear trend is available on incidence of this cancer in Iran, therefore, this study aimed at investigating the incidence of gastric cancer. Mat...

Objective Empowerment is a process that helps the physically-handicapped people to break the poverty loop, achieve self-reliance and self-sufficiency, and join the mainstream of life. This study aimed to investigate the empowerment (sense of meaningfulness, effectiveness, autonomy, self-efficacy and sense of security, and their related factors) of the physically-handicapped people (motor, visce...

Background and Aim: Given the rising trend of ageing and the vulnerability of the aged group to diseases and health costs, it is important to determine the exposure of elderly households to the burdensome costs of health. Materials and Methods: The incidence and severity of elderly costs at provincial level and income quintiles were calculated; besides, chi-square test was used to determine th...

Background & Aims: Bladder cancer is the 11th most common cancer and the 14th leading cause of cancer deaths worldwide. Understanding the epidemiology of bladder cancer is very effective in the health planning of this cancer. According to lack of information in the field, the present study was carried out in order to investigate the epidemiology and trend of incidence of bladder cancer in Iran ...

Today, competitiveness has become one of the most applied concepts in regional and urban studies. The reason, why much attention has been devoted to this concept is the changes in the world economy, demographical changes of countries, changes in social structures and activities. This research aimed to conduct a spatial analysis of competitiveness of Iran provinces based on educational factors. ...

Aims and Background: One of the issues that have a great contribution in achieving social comfort and welfare is security and analysis of its related components. The present study was conducted with the aim of social pathology and analyzing indicators related to social security in Iran by using the combined compromise solution, which is one of the new multi-attribute decision-making techniques....

Background and Aim: One of the dimensions of health is social health. Social health indicates, in a way, the inviolability of the identity aspects of individuals in the community. From among the factors affecting social health, a sense of social security both in its objective and mental dimensions has a particularly significant effect, and also a fundamental impact, on the efficiency of individ...

Introduction: There are many factors involved in the development of studentschr('39') mental disorders, including a lack of emotional regulation skills. Therefore, the aim of this study was to investigate the effect of self-compassion-focused emotional regulation skills training to reduce psychological distress in female first high school students. Methods: The present study was a quasi-experim...