Background & aims: Mother’s milk plays an important role in infant’s health. The aim of this study was to determine the breastfeeding status and some of its related factors among children less than 5 year old, in northern countryside of Iran.   Material & Methods: This descriptive cross-sectional and retrospective study was done on 2520 children aged 6-60 months (1309=males and 1211=females) ...

The present study is an applied research using quantitative method. In the first step, the intended factors of marketing mix, production-export consortium and branding of Turkman carpet were studied in existing literature, and then, the quantitative method of questionnaire was used for collecting needed data and extracting basic factors. The questionnaire was prepared by the researcher. After g...

Objectives: There is currently a lack of consensus to estimate and compare depression proportion of elderly people in different Iranian ethnicities. Therefore, we examined the effect of ethnicity on elderly depression in the presence of other variables. Methods & Materials: During a cross-sectional study in 2017, seven Iranian ethnicities were considered as clusters, then a random sample was s...

The aim of the present study was to evaluate the mediating role of difficulty in emotion regulation in the relationship between coping strategies and high-risk behaviors. The method of research was correlational. The study population consisted of all second-grade high school students who were studying in public schools in Tehran in the academic year of 2020-2021. Among them, 250 people were sel...

The Turkmans are one of the Iranian ethnic population. HLA typing (class I and II) was performed in this population. The data obtained from this study was compared with different populations of the world. We observed that the Turkman population is most similar to the Northern chinese and Uigur population. The distributions of HLA antigens in Turkmans are somewhat between Iranian population, Nor...

The present study aimed to survey heavy and toxic metal pollution (lead and cadmium) in the southern Caspian Sea basin through Liza aurata using geographic information system (GIS).  Samples of the gill tissue of adult Liza aurata were taken in 10 stations over the southern coast of the Caspian Sea in spring and fall. Interpolation method, Kennedy density function, Moran test, and Gi* index in ...