background: infertility affects various aspects of personality and psychology, familial and career performances, and relationships. studies show that stress, anxiety, life dissatisfaction, and other psychological problems follow infertility . infertility issue, its tests and remedy are stressful and may lead to anxiety and depression and have destructive effects on couple relationships. objecti...

in recent years, the prevalence of mental disorders has increased and the prevalence of 18-23% is reported for iran. this study aims to evaluate psychological aspect of general health status of children in ilam city, located in iran using a questionnaire. this study is a descriptive-comparative research that measures general health of boys and girls in schools. the required information is obtai...

OBJECTIVES In the occupational health field, it is important to know how workload influences mental health. Overtime work and job strain appear to affect the mental health status of workers. Sense of coherence (SOC) may mediate the relationship between work stress and mental health. Since SOC represents a personal ability to manage psychological stressors, we hypothesized that a strong SOC woul...

OBJECTIVES To identify determinants of sickness absence in hospital physicians. METHODS The Poisson regression analyses of short (1--3 days) and long (>3 days) recorded spells of sickness absence relating to potential determinants of sickness absence were based on a 2 year follow up period and cohorts of 447 (251 male and 196 female) physicians and 466 controls (female head nurses and ward si...

background: nowadays, infertility problems have become a social concern, and are associated with multiple psychological and social problems. also, it affects the interpersonal communication between the individual, familial, and social characteristics. since women are exposed to stressors of physical, mental, social factors, and treatment of infertility, providing a psychometric screening tool i...

Psychiatric morbidity in the patients attending the medical outpatient clinic of a Urge general hospital was studied using a short 5 - item version of the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ). The overall percentage of high scorers, (score 2 and above) was found to be 51% (45% for Males and 59% for Females.). Morbidity was higher in women who were married and those who were widowed or separated. ...