objective: since1980, when post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd) was officially recognized as a unique diagnostic entity and was included in the diagnostic and statistical manual-iii, a large body of research has been done in the assessment of this disorder. this study investigated the applicability of the persian form of the post-traumatic stress disorder symptom scale self report (pss-sr) in ...

Abstract While post-disaster rebuilding is an urgent task for affected areas, approach without consideration climate protection will probably lead to another disaster of carbon lock-in. Therefore, policymaking and implementation are critically important. This paper takes the Guangyuan prefecture as a case study, where local government took in low-carbon initiative made great contribution develo...

BACKGROUND The 6.3 Richter earthquake in Bam killed 26,000 and injured 30,000 people, and destroyed 85% of houses according to the literature. Children are affected more than others by disasters. In this study, we assessed the rate of post-traumatic stress disorder and psychological problems in survived Bam students in Kerman four months after the earthquake and their relations with demographic...

With the increasing uncertainty and complexity of disasters, tourism industry in disaster-stricken areas is often hard hit, so it urgent to improve resilience industry. Based on perspective regional economic resilience, this study takes Wenchuan earthquake as an example explore theoretical framework, research ideas methods tourist destination resilience. The policy should be included constructi...

OBJECTIVES Helicobacter pylori is a gram-negative, spiral-shaped, urease-producing bacterium with multiple unipolar flagella. Humans are a major reservoir for H. pylori; however, there are no data on the prevalence of H. pylori among dyspeptic patients who have experienced natural disasters. Therefore, the aim of this study was to examine the prevalence of H. pylori in dyspeptic patients who su...

Residents’ satisfaction with post-disaster reconstruction in earthquake-stricken areas directly affects their quality of life, which cannot be ignored reconstruction. More than 10 years after the Wenchuan earthquake, we took ten randomly selected villages five hardest-hit by earthquake as research objects and obtained 483 valid completed questionnaires. The villagers were sampled descriptive st...

BACKGROUND Natural disasters, especially earthquakes, result in many health problems all over the world, of which urological injuries should not be underestimated. Car accidents and falling from a height are the most common causes of genitourinary system injury. The lack of specific data in the literature regarding the outcome of earthquake-related genitourinary system trauma prompted us to und...