OBJECTIVE The aim of the present study was to investigate the epidemiology of psychiatric disorders in children and adolescents in five provinces of Iran: Tehran, Shiraz, Isfahan, Tabriz and Mashhad. METHOD In the present study, we selected 9,636 children and adolescents aged 6-18 years through multistage cluster random sampling method from Tehran, Shiraz, Isfahan, Tabriz and Mashhad. We inst...

INTRODUCTION Burnout is a syndrome containing three dimensions of emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and reduction of personal accomplishment. Nurses are exposed to professional burnout (PB) due to their exposure to physical, mental, and emotional stressors, which can lead to numerous complications in their personal, social, and organizational life. This study aimed to define the prevalen...

BACKGROUND Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) is a food-borne pathogen and infection with this organism causes illnesses such as bloody diarrhea, hemorrhagic colitis and hemolytic-uremic syndrome. OBJECTIVES Considering the lack of any information about the prevalence rate and the antibiotic resistance pattern of O157:H7 serotype in Tabriz, finding answers to the above mentioned su...

OBJECTIVES The aims of the present study were to determine anterior and total tooth-width ratios in a representative Iranian sample in Tabriz city and compare them with the Bolton standards. STUDY DESIGN A total of 54 Iranian schoolchildren (12-14 years old) in Tabriz were examined. Alginate impressions were taken for subjects and poured by the dental stone. The mesiodistal widths of the teet...

ecently a variety of studies reported high prevalence of vitamin D deficiency in adult individuals in different countries and several previously published studies have linked obesity to a poorer vitamin D status, in which serum 25OHD levels are inversely correlated with body fat. The aim of the present study was to evaluate prevalence of vitamin D deficiency and its relationship with nutritiona...

Background: Maternal childbirth expectations play an important role in determining a woman’s response to her childbirth experience. Women need to be helped to develop realistic and positive expectations and identify the factors that infl uence these expectations. Objective: The aim of this study was to compare woman’s expectations and experiences of childbirth. Methods: This descriptive-compara...

1School of Iranian Traditional Medicine Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IR Iran 2Research Institute for Islamic and Complementary Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IR Iran 3Tabriz Liver and Gastrointestinal disease research center, Tabriz, IR Iran 4Department of Pharmacognosy, School of Pharmacy, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehr...

© 2015 The Authors; Tabriz University of Medical Sciences This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Clinical predictors of abnormal computed tomography scan in minor ...

© 2015 The Authors; Tabriz University of Medical Sciences This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Evaluation of changes in paraclinical indexes due to intermaxillar...