Background: Because of various health problems, the risk of the death in the elderly is higher than adults. The purpose of this study was to investigate the causes of the death, and comparing the cause of death that recorded on the death certificates and those were extracted from the medical records review. Methods: Variables included the demographic characteristics (age and sex), time of deat...

Background and purpose: Stroke is one of the most common causes of death. This study aimed at evaluating the one-year prognosis in patients with stroke. Materials and methods: In this descriptive cross-sectional research, 361 stroke patients admitted in Hamedan Sina Hospital, 2015-2016 were studied. Data were collected using a checklist on demographic characteristics, risk factors, Modified Ra...

adolescents and young adults and their problems is an issue whose importance is obvious to anyone because youth are the founders of our countrys future and requires proper planning to be on leisure. given the importance of leisure,this study to investigate needs assessment and planning how adolescents and young adults spend their leisure time in urban of case study of high school girls and boys...

Abstract Terror management theory- which is a social psychology theory and inspired by evolutionary, psychodynamic and existential approaches - attempts to explain formation of sense of self and social behaviors with attention to survival tendency and escape from terror of death. This theory suggests two kinds of defenses in confrontation of death thoughts (proximal and distal defenses) and ...