there is increasing evidence of rapidly growing serious, pervasive, and expensive methamphetamine problem in ïran in recent years - a malicious social phenomenon with widespread psychological, familial and economic adversities - which contributes to theft, murder, suicide, violence, and divorce. substantial cases of acute psychiatric problems are increasingly seen following methamphetamine use ...

ôbjective: presently, the issue of attempted suicide now poses one of the major challenges facing the health-care providers in ïran and other countries. âlthough in previous years, the number of people entering to hospital emergency departments after deliberately taking overdoses or injuring themselves has been steadily increased in ïran, however, there is less attention to the issue of suicide...

ôbjectives: the current study tested differences in depression, anxiety, and stress among ïranian wives with and without a history of spousal abuse. methods: the physically abused wives (n = 40) were among those who had been referred to a local forensic medical center. the control group (n = 40) comprised married women living in the same area of the city as the experimental group. the persian f...

ôbjective: the problem of runaway girls is one of the social problems which has become more prevalent and is considered a serious challenge for families, welfare centers and governmental organizations in ïran. this study aimed at determining the demographic, personality and psychopathology characteristic of a sample of runaway girls in shiraz, ïran. methods: fifty girls who had escaped from the...

ôbjectivity, reliability and validity of examinations in psychiatry have always been one of the major concerns of experts in this discipline. recently, objective structured clinical examination (ôsçë) for its unique approach and by providing the requirements of psychiatric examinations has been a topic of interest. ïn ïran, an ôsçë has been replaced the individual patient assessment (ïpâ) for e...