The present study aims at investigating the anti-stress effects of cinnamon (Cassia zelynicum) bark extract in cold restrained stress (CRS) model. The cinnamon anti-stress effect was characterized using ulcer scoring, adrenal-gland weight, estimation of plasma glucose and cholesterol levels, as well as estimation of norepinephrine (NE) and corticosterone. Our results demonstrated that cinnamon ...

background : breast cancer is one of the most frequent malignancies among iranian women. these patients suffer from a wide range of physical and mental (depression, anxiety and stress) signs and symptoms during the diagnostic and therapeutic processes. despite the improvement in survival rates due to advances in medical care, different types of psychosocial interventions are still growingly nee...

The present study describes entrainment characteristics of bed material into debris flow, based on flume tests, numerical and dimensional analyses. Flume tests are conducted to investigate influences of bed sediment size on erosion rate by supplying debris flows having unsaturated sediment concentration over erodible beds. Experimental results show that the erosion rate decreases monotonically ...

Background and Objectives: Job stress is not always caused directly by the stressful sources, but it results more from the way in which those sources are perceived. Therefore, a lot of factors are effective in job stress. As such, the present study was done to predict the job stress based on spiritual intelligence and self-diffrentiation of teachers of exceptional children in the town of Shahri...

drought stress is one of the most important abiotic stresses which can affect the growth of a plant, thereby curbing crop yield. identification of effective morphological traits is the main aim of each breeding program. our objective was to identify agronomic traits associated with changes in grain yield of wheat under irrigated and drought conditions. to address this objective, grain yield and...

background: brief family interventions may have a positive impact on family caregivers of mental disorders. this study aimed to evaluate the effect of family psycho-education on depression, anxiety and stress in family caregivers of patients with mental disorders. methods: this randomized controlled trial designed and evaluated the effectiveness of a group psycho-educational program on 100 care...

present research with the aim of the studying the efficacy of training of mindfulness based stress reduction (mbsr) in the reduction of occupying mothers in proportion to mother-infant has carried out. the way of the present search is a study quasi-experimental. the method of its pre-test and post-test with control and experimental groups. in this research, nurse mothers of rasht with the tool ...

Background: Hypertension or high blood pressure is one of the most common chronic diseases among the geriatrics having a strong association with psychological factors such as perceived stress. Aerobic exercises are effective in the prevention and treatment of hypertension and stress management. In the same regard, this paper is an attempt to investigate the effect of Tai Chi exercise on the str...

background: vision impairment in children is one of the most severe disabilities that cause stress in parents. therefore, it seems necessary to establish and conduct interventions for controlling parenting stress and preventing its negative consequences. this study aimed to investigate the effect of life skills training (lst) program on parenting stress of mothers with blind children aged 7 to ...