mental health problems including emotional and behavioral problems during puberty may be under influence of different risk factors including cultures, living in urban or rural areas and ethnic factors which may vary between different countries. the main aim of this study is to investigate the profile of emotional and behavioral problems and the role of factors such as age, stage of puberty, eth...

results after controlling for gender and educational level, we observed statistically significant differences in the modified means between the patients who considered the behavioral risk factors and those who considered the physiological risk factors (p = 0.012, md = 5.03) and between the patients who regarded the behavioral risk factors and those who regarded the psychological risk factors (p...

background: hypoactive sexual desire disorder is the most common sexual disorder among women, which interferes with their various functions. activity of brain-behavioral and psychological distress systems are considered among factors affecting sexual function. objectives: the present study aimed to compare women with hypoactive sexual desire and normal women in terms of brain-behavioral and psy...

When investigating health disparities, it can be of interest to explore whether adjustment for socioeconomic factors at the neighborhood level can account for, or even reverse, an unadjusted difference. Recently, we proposed new methods to adjust the effect of an individual-level covariate for confounding by unmeasured neighborhood-level covariates using complex survey data and a generalization...

This study extends IT ethics research by proposing an IT ethical behavioral model that includes attitude, perceived importance, subjective norms, situational factors, and individual characteristics. The proposed model integrates elements from the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) and Theory of Reasoned Action (TRA) as well as ethical decision-making models. It is hypothesized that behavioral int...