Background & aim:  The most important risk factor for one’s sexual health is high-risk sexual behavior. Implementation of educational programs has been considered as one of the most crucial interventions in the prevention and treatment of these behaviors. Therefore, this study aimed to determine the effect of an educational program on the knowledge and attitude of female sex workers toward prev...

Do extreme values of daily-life gait characteristics provide more information about fall risk than median values? Abstract Background. Gait characteristics estimated from daily-life trunk accelerations reflect gait quality and are associated with fall incidence in older adults. While associations are based on median values of these gait characteristics, their extreme values may reflect either h...

The implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) has been shown to improve survival in patients at high risk for sudden cardiac arrest (SCA). However, there remain situations in which an ICD may be inappropriate: the high risk for SCA is temporary, there is need for interruption of implanted ICD therapy (e.g. for infection), there is temporary inability to implant an ICD, there is bridge period...

The social, organizational, and technological complexity of high-risk organizations creates a strong need for coordination. Joint activity in such systems thus relies both on formal coordination and on a set of informal coordinative practices. Coordinated joint activity is documented in this paper from two perspectives: the development of coordinative practices to overcome the limitations of fo...

12 clients suffering from chronic tics participated in one of two treatment programs, either a behavioral group using competing response therapy or a group using Beck-style cognitive restructuring. A repertory grid based upon the personal construct psychology of George Kelly was administered to all clients before and after treatment. The grid comprised a set of elements made up of situations wi...

INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES The Third Joint European Task Force on cardiovascular prevention recommended the SCORE function for predicting 10-year cardiovascular mortality should be used to guide decision-making on clinical interventions. The objective of the present study was to calibrate the function for use in Spain. METHODS A model was developed to apply the hazard ratios for cardiovascul...

background & aim:  high-risk pregnancies increase the risk of intensive care unit (icu) and neonatal intensive care unit (nicu) admission in mothers and their newborns. in this study, we aimed to identify the association between the recurrence of high-risk pregnancy and mothers’ previous experience of having an infant admitted to nicu. methods:we performed a cohort, retrospective study to compa...

background: in this study the overall, age and sex prevalence of diabetes mellitus and high blood pressure were calculated and the association among some risk factors and these two diseases, occurring simultaneously, were studied. methods: in this cross-sectional study 3000 isfahanian men and women between the ages of 15-64 were investigated by using stratified sampling method with multi-stage ...