background : the high incidence of breast cancer in young women in iran and its resultant problems for families show the necessity of exploring studies conducted in this field. the present research was conducted to determine the volume of scientific production on breast cancer in iran, and to compare it with that of other countries in the middle east. methods : this systematic review study used...

background: the novel influenza a (h1n1) virus was first detected in march 2009 in mexico and then disseminated to many other countries worldwide. in this study, we assessed the potential risk factors of swine flu as well as the most important clinical manifestations of this infectious disease among confirmed cases during early phase of pandemic h1n1. methods: subjects (cases and controls) were...

objective: to develop 'moral distress questionnaire' and validate it in a sample of iranian registered nurses. method: 26 registered nurses and 10 professionals attended focused group discussion (fgd) sessions and the acquired qualitative data was analyzed by jameton scale analysis. results: attitudes and definitions of nurses working in private and governmental hospitals of two medical univers...

background: the clinical evaluation, as one of the most important elements in medical education, must measure students’ competencies and abilities. the implementation of any assessment tool is basically dependent on the acceptance of students. this study tried to assess midwifery students’ satisfaction with direct observation of procedural skills (dops) and current clinical evaluation methods. ...

objectives in this section, we studied dietary and other factors related to the effect of lifestyle in type 2 diabetes. these factors may affect the incidence of type 2 diabetes which could be corrected by lifestyle modifications. background prevalence of type 2 diabetes is increasing rapidly worldwide. recent data is reprehensive of increasing diabetes prevalence from 285 millions in 2010 (6.4...

purpose: to examine and compare the prevalence of different types of mental disorders among the administrative staff and warders of the central prison of sistan and baluchestan. materials and methods: the study population included all employees of zahedan general office of prisons. the sample consisted of 100 employees, of whom fifty individuals worked in various administrative units of zahedan...

Traditional quality-control methods are effective for detecting systematic error caused by deterioration of reagents or instruments, but ineffective for detecting sporadic error, which is more likely to occur in low-volume testing environments. Decentralized testing performed by individuals without formal laboratory training has a high potential for sporadic errors. New methods for validating t...