granted that literacy is a social practice involving different values, attitudes, feelings, and social relationships, this study attempts to examine literacy practices and the potential changes made through a history of forty years. the study was conducted in the village of cheshmeh, near mashhad, iran, where the social definition of literacy emerged. the data have been collected through partic...

background thalassemia is among the most common hematological diseases, but it has no definitive cure. the self-concept in adolescents with thalassemia major changes due to changes in their facial form. among the factors affecting the patient’s self-concept is social capital. objectives the study aims to examine the relationship between social capital and self-concept in adolescents with thalas...

Introduction: Considering the pervasiveness of social accountablemedical education concept around the world and the growingtrend of literature in this regard as well as various interpretationsmade about this concept, we found it necessary to analyze theconcept of social accountable medical education.Methods: In this study, the modified version of McKenna’s approachto concept analysis was used t...

methods the current cross sectional study included all female high school students in tehran in the 2014 - 2015 academic year. of these, 477 females were selected by multistage cluster sampling. results the results of the correlation matrix was indicative of a significant negative relationship between self-esteem and self-concept clarity with social comparison (p < 0.000). there was a significa...

Background & Aims: children and adolescents can use their maximum of mental capacity and potential capabilities, if they benefit from a positive attitude towards their surrounding environment and a strong incentive for being active in the community. The aim of this study was to explore the relationship of social anxiety including social phobia, social interaction and maladaptive behavior with s...

Nowadays social data analysts use a complicated mix of languages, methods and technologies for analyzing social networks services (SNS) data. In this article we describe approaches and technologies for extracting, analyzing and visualizing social data using Formal Concept Analysis Research Toolbox (FCART). Integrated process of analyzing SNS data with a set of research tools based on Formal Con...

as social health is a condition-driven, dynamic and fluid concept, it seems necessary to construct and obtain a national and relevant concept of it for every society. providing an empirical back up for iran's concept of social health was the aim of the present study.this study is an ecologic study in which available data for 30 provinces of iran in 2007 were analyzed. in order to prove construc...

With the rapid growth of social media, there is increasing potential to augment traditional public health surveillance methods with data from social media. We describe a framework for performing public health surveillance on Twitter data. Our framework, which is publicly available, consists of three components that work together to detect health-related trends in social media: a concept extract...