the present research seeks to investigate the effects of religiousness on the social capital of families residing in qom. it is an applied kind of research conducted through using documentary and survey methods. the statistical population has been 160565 households living in qom. based on cochran's formula, the sample size was determined to be 376 households which finally it was decided to...

This research examines effective social and family factors toward delinquent behavior. It is a survey research and uses structured questionnaire for gathering the data. A representative sample is 350 students. The result shows that there is a reverse and significant relation among religiousness, the level of parents control of children, family engagement, socio-economic status and school engage...

Objective This is a review of spiritually based interventions (eg, mindfulness-based stress reduction) that utilized psychoneuroimmunological (PNI) outcome measures in breast cancer survivors. Specifically, this review sought to examine the evidence regarding relationships between spiritually based interventions, psychosocial-spiritual outcomes, and biomarker outcomes in breast cancer survivors...

OBJECTIVE Testing the hypothesis of an association between knowledge and sexual risk behaviour (SRB) amongst community-clinic workers in Chile, explained by the confounding effect of self-perceived vulnerability to HIV. METHODS A cross-sectional survey was analyzed; it was nested within a quasi-experimental study of 720 community-clinic workers in Santiago. The SRB score combined the number o...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to evaluate racial differences in preference for life-sustaining interventions in the context of various physical and mental health scenarios. DESIGN Data were collected by using an investigator-administered survey. SETTING AND PATIENTS Consecutive patients who self-identified as African American or Caucasian were recruited from two private primary c...