abstract background: infertility predisposes the couples to mental and psychological problems such as anxiety, depression, anger, and partner abuse. this study aimed to investigate the association between infertility factors and the non-physical abuse between infertile spouses. materials and methods: this is a descriptive cross-sectional study conducted on 262 infertile couples (131 female and ...

background: pain adversely affects cancer patients quality of life . knowing different sources of pain helps physicians and patients to manage it. the aim of this study was investigating physical factors affecting pain in iranian cancer patients. method: this cross-sectional study randomly enrolled cancer patients who were newly admitted to the medical oncology department of cancer institute of...

in order to analyze sport factors which increase productivity in sport centers, three questionnaires including personal information, identity of sport centers and the factors affecting productivity in these centers (7 axles) were prepared. after their validity (cronbach’s alpha 0.835) had been determined, they were distributed among sports teachers in hamedan. in order to analyze the collected ...

purpose: due to unhealthy lifestyles, there has been an increase in the prevalence of coronary artery disease (cad) and a reduction in its age of onset. given the high cost of diagnosis and treatment of cad, there is an urgent need to teach people strategies helpful in changing their lifestyles as this can help reduce the risk factors of the disease. therefore, the goal of the present study was...

the purpose of this study was to investigate the motives and reasons of non-physical education graduates to continue their education in postgraduate physical education discipline. research method was descriptive. the statistical sample of the research consisted of physical education students of the universities in tehran who were studying in 2009-2010 educational disciplines. 136 subjects were ...

aim and background: in this study, the psychometric properties and hierarchal structural validity of short form health survey scale (sf-36) among students using structural equating modeling was investigated. methods and materials: a sample with 310 students (158 male and 152 female) from tehran university were chosen by multistage sampling method. for verifying discernment validity, two clinica...

Abstract Factor analysis proposes an alternative approach to standard portfolio theory: the latter is optimisation based, while former estimation based. Also, in theory, returns are only explained by volatility factor, factor a multiplicity of factors, which managers can choose from tilt their portfolios. In attempting reconcile these worlds, we propose penalised utility function, incorporating...

conclusions according to the results, interventions based on socioecological model can positively affect women’s physical activity. results the results indicated insignificant differences between the two groups in terms of perceived social, physical, and political support and also with regard to level of physical activity before intervention. however after the intervention and according to inde...