introduction: most of the older adults have to be hospitalized and patients’ satisfaction from the provided services is one of the key performance indicators in healthcare centers. feeling satisfied with the treatment process and provided services can motivate the elderly patients to continue their treatment, which ultimately leads to a reduction in the disease load and disability in older adul...

conclusions the prevalence of ia among medical students in southeast iran was high and affected by happiness. increasing happiness with the provision of various programs may prevent ia problems among students and may improve their educational situation. background several factors are responsible for overuse of the internet among young adults. the practice can lead to internet addiction (ia). in...

introduction: anxiety is one of the most common mental disorders of community that affects the quality of life. hospitals are associated with human’s life and death and their environment is very stressful. the aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of anxiety among medical students of hormozgan university of medical sciences. methods: this cross-sectional study was carried out in hor...

firefighting is extremely strenuous and physically demanding work and involves ability to cope with emergency life-or-death situations. because of the high physical demands of firefighting, successful job performance and minimizing of morbidity and mortality depends on fitness for duty. the firefighting department of tehran does not perform periodic medical assessment for firefighters. the aim ...

introduction: in india, medical undergraduates think that statistics is difficult to understand. often, it is taught just before final assessment examination using didactic lectures, with little use of medical examples and less focus on application. hence, we prepared interactive, participatory sessions for teaching biostatistics to medical undergraduate. methods: the sessions were delivered by...

background: in developing countries it is important to the exploration of available and safe regimens for medical abortion. the present study was designed to assess the effect of letrozole compared to placebo pretreatment followed by sublingual misoprostol for therapeutic abortion in eligible women with gestational age less than 17 weeks. materials and methods: in this randomized control trail,...

conclusions physicians may encounter moral distress during their practice; therefore, the common causes of distress should be identified in order to prevent its occurrence. results results showed that the frequency of moral distress of physicians was 1.24 ± 0.63 and the intensity of moral distress and composite score of moral distress were 2.14 ± 0.80 and 2.94 ± 2.38, respectively. a significan...

in 1998 international guidelines on principles of ethics in medical genetics and genetic services was edited and provided by the world health organization. these principles are autonomy, beneficence, non-maleficience, proportionality of beneficence and non-malificience, and justice. the world health organization considers the observance of these principles highly important and expects all membe...

introduction: self-citation is considered as one of the greatest shortcomings of citation analysis. although self-citation is natural for journals, its excessive use would eliminate the journal from evaluations made by databases. this study examined the rate of self-citation of iranian scientific medical journals in english indexed in scopus citation index during 2005-2009. methods: this descri...