injuries, especially traffic accidents are so important causes of death, disability, hospital expenses, economic damages to the society which world health organization selected them as the main subjects for investigation and research. we have done an epidemiologic study about trauma in guilan, a province in north of iran. this is   a descriptive study carried out on patients with traumatic inju...

objectives: the aim of the current study was to determine the depression status of the elderly and it's related factors. methods & materials: this was a cross sectional study. sample unit was based on the elderly of isfahan city in 2007. 248 elderly aged 60 and older (125 men and 123 women) were selected randomly according to clusters related to the families that are under coverage of isfa...

background: migraine is a prevalent disease which is classified into two groups of migraine with aura and without aura. eighteen percent of women and 6.5 percent of men in united states have migraine headache. migraine headache is prevalent in all age groups but it usually subsides in adults above fifty. migraine has many risk factors such as stress, light, tiredness, special foods and beverage...

introduction: the present study aimed to investigate the psychometric properties of grasha-riechmann student learning styles scale. method: the participants included 1039 students (421 students in human and 618 students in technical sciences), selected through the stratified sampling method from tehran university. they answered the grasha-riechmann student learning style scale and the data was ...

conclusions following cabg, the most severity of pain was reported at surgical incision on time t2. pain began to decrease from the third day following the operation. age, sex and bmi along with operation-related factors such as duration of cbp or chest tube drainage may affect the pain pattern following cabg surgery. patients and methods the present study was conducted on 138 patients who unde...

background: participation is mostly cultural and familial based, and there is not any assessment scales for evaluating kids' participation in iranian context, therefore the purpose of this study was developing children's participation assessment scale for iranian children.   methods: development of this scale occurred in two phases; phase i: planning: following reviewing the literature and adop...