Hajivandi, Leila Noroozi, Mahnaz Mostafavi, Firoozeh Ekramzadeh, Maryam
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BMC Pediatrics
BackgroundPolycystic ovary syndrome is the most common endocrine disorder among adolescents and adults. Given the importance of healthy nutritional behaviors in management of this disease, the present study was conducted to determine the impact of an educational intervention program based on the theory of planned behavior on the nutritional behavio...
Naseri, Kaveh Dabiri, Hossein Rostami-Nejad, Mohammad Yadegar, Abbas Houri, Hamidreza Olfatifar, Meysam Sadeghi, Amir Saadati, Saeede Ciacci, Carolina Iovino, Paola
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BMC Gastroenterology
Background and objectiveRecently, dietary restriction of fermentable carbohydrates (a low-FODMAP diet) in combination with a gluten-free diet (GFD) has been proposed to reduce the symptoms in irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) patients. Different studies reported that IBS has been associated with dysbiosis in the gut microbiota. Additionally, a few stu...
Delpasand, Mansoor Olyaaeemanesh, Alireza Jaafaripooyan, Ebrahim Abdollahiasl, Akbar Davari, Majid Kazemi Karyani, Ali
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Journal of Pharmaceutical Policy and Practice
BackgroundDeciding on pharmaceutical subsidy is regarded as a challenging issue for healthcare policymakers in Iran in most times. Public preferences, rarely attended in Iran, could be invaluable for including a particular drug in the list of subsidized medications.ObjectivesThe current study aims to elicit the public preferences to develop an evid...
Sheikhansari, Narges Abraham, Charles Denford, Sarah Eftekhar, Mehrdad
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BMC Public Health
BackgroundSexual Health and Relationships Education (SHRE) provides individuals with knowledge and skills to manage risky behaviors and take informed decisions to protect themselves against STIs, and unintended pregnancy. Only minimal SHRE is provided in Iranian schools and universities and previous research has highlighted needs and demands for im...
Jalalvand, Fatemeh Rezaei, Arezou Badehnoosh, Bita Yaseri, Mehdi Qorbani, Mostafa Emaminia, Farzaneh Shabani, Mahzad
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Frontiers in Pharmacology
Menopause is the last menstrual period associated with a decline in ovarian steroid secretion and follicular loss. Hormone profile changes during menopause include a decrease in the production of estrogen, dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA), and prolactin (PRL), and an increase in thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) and cortisol. Herbal medicines are cons...
Sohrabi, Rahim Tourani, Sogand Jafari, Mehdi Joudaki, Hossein Doshmangir, Leila Moghri, Javad Bragazzi, Nicola Luigi
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BMC Health Services Research
BackgroundOrganizational reforms of hospitals in Iran are mainly aimed at improving efficiency, reducing government spending on health care, and improving the quality of services. These reforms began with hospital autonomization and have continued with other initiatives such as formation of board of trustees, independent and corporatized hospitals....
Bastani, Peivand Dehghan, Zahra Kashfi, Seyyed Mansoor Dorosti, Hesam Mohammadpour, Mohammadtaghi Mehralian, Gholamhossein Ravangard, Ramin
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Journal of Pharmaceutical Policy and Practice
BackgroundGiven the impact of politico-economic sanctions on the pharmaceutical supply chain, this study aims to identify practical strategies to improve the resilience of the Iranian supply chain in pharmaceutical procurement under politico-economic sanctions.MethodsThis is a qualitative content analysis study conducted in 2018. Semi-structured in...
Nikparvar, Fatemeh Stith, Sandra Spencer, Chelsea Panaghi, Laily
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Journal of interpersonal violence
This study examined the relationship between sexual intimate partner violence (IPV) victimization and perpetration and other types of IPV among married men and women in Tehran, Iran. Data were collected from 116 males and 121 females who reported perpetrating or experiencing IPV at least once in the past year. Four path analyses were conducted to e...
Mohseni, Marzieh Babanejad, Mojgan Booth, Kevin T Jamali, Payman Jalalvand, Khadijeh Davarnia, Behzad Ardalani, Fariba Khoshaeen, Atefeh Arzhangi, Sanaz Ghodratpour, Fatemeh
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Clinical genetics
Hearing loss (HL) is one of the most common sensory defects affecting more than 466 million individuals worldwide. It is clinically and genetically heterogeneous with over 120 genes causing non-syndromic HL identified to date. Here, we performed exome sequencing (ES) on a cohort of Iranian families with no disease-causing variants in known deafness...
Ashrafizadeh, Hadis Gheibizadeh, Mahin Rassouli, Maryam Hajibabaee, Fatemeh Rostami, Shahnaz
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Frontiers in Psychology
Introduction: The needs of Alzheimer's patients are very complex and diverse and many of them are considered unmet needs. Understanding and responding to the unmet and complex needs of Alzheimer's patients can affect the quality of care. Therefore, the present study aimed to explain the perception of formal and informal caregivers of the unmet need...
