results mean age of the participants was about 35 years, and mean duration of marriage was 14 years. drug dependence of the husband (p = 0.010) and lower monthly income of the family (p = 0.007) predicted the higher level of anxiety among the participants, while older age (p = 0.031), shorter marital duration (p = 0.016), and lower educational level (p = 0.045) in addition to spousal drug depen...

conclusions: it can be concluded that cognitive-behavioral and spiritual training was effective for the improvement of mental health of hiv positive drug addicts. results: the result of the present research showed that cognitive-behavioral trainings with an emphasis on spirituality were effective for improving quality of life, regarding general aspects of mental and physical health, sub-scales ...

nowadays people are seeking health information to raise their awareness. they use many ways to get this information. this study examines the health information channels used by users of public libraries. the population of the present survey  consisted of 461 users of public libraries throughout the country, randomly selected in a two-stage cluster sampling method. the questionnaire data were an...

introduction: users’ performance and their interaction with information retrieval systems can be observed in development of their mental models. users, especially users of health, use mental models to facilitate their interactions with these systems and incomplete or incorrect models can cause problems for them . the aim of this study was the adjustment and development of health user’s mental m...

mental disorders are known to be an important cause of disabilities worldwide. despite their importance, about two thirds of mentally ill people do not seek treatment, probably because of the mental health system's inability to decrease the negative side effects of the interaction with the mental health services. the world health organization has suggested the concept of responsiveness as a way...

background family-centered empowerment of drug and stimulant users is an effective program for a better response to treatment, prevention of treatment adverse effects, and promotion quality of life (qol) and lifestyle in the process of discontinuing drug abuse. objectives this study aimed to determine the effects of educational intervention, based on family-centered empowerment and pender's hea...

accessibility to all levels of information technology has experienced rapid progress in recent years, particularly in the health sector. rapid penetration into this technology has led to changes in lifestyles and changes in the working procedures of institutions. in 2014, the number of internet users reached 3 billion, and this number is predicted to exceed 8 billion in 2018. statistics estimat...

the key argument of this commentary is that patient choice has a broader meaning than suggested by consumerist choice models. in increasingly marketized health care systems with diversified and knowledge-based service arrangements, patients are continuously obliged to choose insurers, physicians or hospitals and treatments—whether they like it or not. however, health care users refer to a wide ...

For visualization of multivariable data, multivariate cube meets with the limitation of screen and human vision. Retinal variables are integrated into multivariate cube to enhance its visual characteristics. The selective feature of variables and associative feature of the values of the same variable are improved with the integration of retinal variable into the set of visual variables. The sel...