Purpose: Bipolar disorders of complex and multi-dimensional nature necessitate new therapies.   This research compared the effect of meta-cognitive and psycho-educational family therapy on   dysfunctional attitudes of bipolar patients.   Materials and Methods: This was a semi-empirical research with pretest-posttest design, using   control group. From among the bipolar woman who had referred ...

The present study examined the effect of grouped meta-cognitive therapy on meta-cognitive beliefs of patients' suffering from generalized anxiety disorder. This research is a quasi-experimental with pre-test and post-test design with control group in which two groups of experiment and control are used. The present study population includes all state universities, Islamic Azad Universities of Ta...

background and purpose: investigation of the seasonal pattern of brucellosis occurrence may help us to determine the etiology of disease. seasonal pattern of brucellosis in different parts of iran has been reported by several studies. combining the results of these studies provide a reliable estimation of a total seasonal pattern of this zoonosis disease. this study aims to determine the overal...

background and aims: nowadays, hypnosis has opened its position in the medical community. based on controlled trials, hypnosis has been superior compared to other interventional procedures to reduce acute pain. this investigation aims to determine the effectiveness of hypnosis in the treatment of pain and enhancing mental performance in iran, using the meta-analysis method. methods: the search ...

Quadratic assignment problem (QAP) is a well-known problem in the facility location and layout. It belongs to the NP-complete class. There are many heuristic and meta-heuristic methods, which are presented for QAP in the literature. In this paper, we applied 2-opt, greedy 2-opt, 3-opt, greedy 3-opt, and VNZ as heuristic methods and tabu search (TS), simulated annealing, and pa...

information technology has been considered the greatest innovation of the new era because it has a lot of fruitful social economic and scientific impacts. e-marketing joins creative and technical aspects of the internet, including: design, development, advertising and sales. this research aims to design an e-marketing framework by using meta-synthesis method. in order to design and explain a co...

context migraine is a major dilemma and problem which affects public health and results to reduced quality of life. this study aimed to determine the prevalence of migraine in iran. evidence acquisition a systematic search was conducted using pub med, web of science, embase, scopus, ovid, google scholar, as well as iranian databases including: magiran, iranmedex and scientific information datab...