objective: the present study aimed to compare mental health of female athlete and non-athlete students in the city of indica. the research methodology was a descriptive survey, which initially described the mental health and then compared it among the students. methods: the statistical population of the study included all high school girls in the academic year of 2012-2013 in the city of indica...

bakers are frequently exposed to various irritant chemicals during work which can induce respiratory problems. in this study, pulmonary function tests and self-reported respiratory and allergic symptoms in bakers were compared with matched control subjects. the frequency of respiratory and allergic symptoms was evaluated in a sample of 58 iranian bakers and 58 control subjects using a questionn...

Objective: This study investigates obsessive-compulsive disorder patients in terms of strategic planning and its association with specific obsessivecompulsive symptom dimensions. Method: We evaluated 32 obsessivecompulsive disorder patients. Strategic planning was assessed by the ReyOsterrieth Complex Figure Test, and the obsessive-compulsive dimensions were assessed by the Dimensional Yale-Bro...

background: fatalism, an obstacle to the adoption of safe behaviors, describes the belief that injuries are unavoidable and occur due to haphazard or fate. the present study examined degree of fatalism related to injuries reporting rate and its dimensions among workers’ isfahan steel company. methods: a self-administered anonymous was distributed to 250 workers. the survey included demographic ...

1479 In the late 1980s, studies of children with Sydenham chorea (SC), the neurological manifestation of rheumatic fever, suggested that the disorder might serve as a useful model of pathophysiology for some forms of childhood-onset obsessivecompulsive disorder (OCD) and tic disorders. The disorders share anatomic similarities. Both OCD and SC have evidence of basal ganglia dysfunction, particu...

OBJECTIVE The goal of this study was to evaluate behavior and cognition in a consecutive series of patients who developed obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) after suffering a traumatic brain injury (TBI). BACKGROUND Because OCD is a rare sequelae of TBI, the phenomenology of obsessions and compulsions, the comorbid psychiatric disorders, the performance on cognitive tests, and the neural cor...

this descriptive study was conducted to determine the prevalence of asthma and related symptoms among 6-7 and 13-14 year old school children in tehran as a part of international study of asthma and allergies in childhood (isaac) phase iii. the isaac written questionnaire was given to a total of 6127 students of 72 schools in urban area of tehran. simple random sampling was performed with a unif...

objective: suicide is one of the most important early causes of death in psychotic patients. the main object of this research was to determine the relationship between positive and negative symptoms of schizophrenia and psychotic major depressive disorder (mdd) with suicidal history and risk. methods: sixty five patients with schizophrenia compared to 65 patients with psychotic mdd in a cross s...

Pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders associated with streptococcus infections (PANDAS) originated from the observational work of Swedo and collaborators, who formalized their definition in 1998 in a set of operational criteria. The application of these criteria, which focuses on tics and obsessivecompulsive symptoms as core symptoms, has encountered difficulties, eventually leading t...

ôbjective: ït has been shown that serum and red blood cells’ level of ômega-3 fatty acids are low in people with schizophrenia. many studies have, therefore, attempted to explore the beneficial effects of these substances in the management of schizophrenia. however, the outcomes of the previous studies have not been clear cut. the present study is an attempt to retest this hypothesis by elimina...