writing as a productive skill requires practice in the basic sub-skills of vocabulary and grammar. in fact, grammar has been viewed as the core of programs in writing classes to help the students put the elements of sentence together and combine sentences of specific lengths to come up with an error-free work of art. conceptualizing l2 writing in this way introduces writing as a product and enc...

Objective: Cerebral palsy is one of the most common causes of physical disability in childhood that leads to various difficulties and reduces the level of independence and participation in activities of daily living. The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of Occupational Therapy Home Program on activities of daily living of 5–12 year-old children. Materials & Methods: In this c...

Introduction: Burnout is a specific kind of occupational stress among human service ‎profession like nursing. It is characterized by feeling emotional exhaustion, depersonalization ‎and reduced personal accomplishment. ‎  Objective: The purpose of this study was to examine the Level of burnout in nurses and its ‎related factors in Medical Educational Hospitals in Rasht i...

Kangaroo mother care (KMC) is effective care method that avoids aggressive routinely methods in neonatal wards. Objective of this study was comparing KMC with conventional care (incubator) of premature Infant in neonatal ward. This study was a randomized controlled clinical trial that has been done in 17 months. 40 premature neonates whose birth weight was less than 1500gr were enrolled in the ...

Introduction: Drug addiction causes many complications for mother and fetus. Preterm labor, spontaneous abortion, intrauterine fetal growth retardation, prenatal mortality, placental abruption, preeclampsia, PROM, cesarean delivery and congenital anomalies among the newborns of addicted mothers are increased. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the final of maternal, fetal and neonatal of...

Introduction: Toxoplasmosis, caused by a protozoan called" Toxoplasma gondii", is one of the most common parasitic infections in humans and animals throughout the world. Toxoplasma infection in pregnant women, especially at the first trimester of pregnancy, may lead to miscarriage or birth complications in the nervous system and ocular complications. Conducting such studies can provide practica...

AbstractObjectives: With reference to the hypothesis of association between central nervous system infections and schizophrenia, in this study the relationship between Toxoplasma gondii infections and schizophrenia was studied. Method: In this case-control study, the serums of 104 inpatient schizophrenic patients admitted to  22 Bahman Hospital in Qazvin, Iran and 114 matched control subjects w...