Dehesh, Tania Salarpour, Elaheh Malekmohammadi, Neda Kermani, Sepideh Arjomand
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BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
BackgroundOptimal pregnancy spacing is an important incidence in reproductive women’s health. Short or long pregnancy spacing leads to the greatest health, social and economic problems such as increase in maternal and infant mortality and morbidity, and adverse pregnancy outcomes. The aim of this study is to assess the mean of pregnancy spacing and...
Mirzaee, Jafar Kamal, Mina Nazari Samouei, Rahele Heidari, Zahra Salehi, Nima
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Journal of Education and Health Promotion
BACKGROUND AND AIM: Some people exposed to disasters will suffer from acute stress disorder (ASD) due to the negative consequences of these disasters. Evaluating this disorder at a large scale requires a credible and standardized tool. Therefore, the current study aims to investigate the psychometric properties of the ASD questionnaire for people e...
Abedi Sarvestani, Roghayeh Aghasi, Majid
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Environmental Earth Sciences
This investigation has been conducted to evaluate the concentrations of heavy metals, including lead, cadmium, and copper in the drinking water in Kerman city, Iran. In this descriptive cross-sectional research, there have been 160 samples of tap water and 64 samples of bottled water brands collected to achieve comparable results. The atomic absorp...
Firouzabadi, A Saadati, D Najimi, M Jajarmi, M
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Preventive veterinary medicine
Salmonella is one of the most important pathogens in the poultry industry that not only causes financial and economic damage, but also, some serovars of this bacterium, including the S. Typhimurium, can infect humans through poultry-to-human transmission. The purpose of this study was to investigate the prevalence of this pathogen among broiler pou...
Amiresmaili, Mohammadreza Yazdi-Feyzabadi, Vahid Heidarijamebozorgi, Majid
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Journal of Education and Health Promotion
INTRODUCTION: Health services utilization is a complex behavioral phenomenon affected by multiple factors including availability, distance, cost and quality of health services as well as personal attitudes, cultural beliefs, and socioeconomic characteristics. This study aimed to assess the status of health-care utilization among dwellers of slums i...
Tavakoli, Fatemeh Karamouzian, Mohammad Rafiei-Rad, Ali Ahmad Iranpour, Abedin Farrokhnia, Mehrdad Noroozi, Mehdi Sharifi, Ali Marshall, Brandon D.L. Shokoohi, Mostafa Sharifi, Hamid
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International Journal of Health Policy and Management
Background: Stigmatizing attitudes among healthcare providers are an important barrier to accessing services among people living with HIV (PLHIV). This cross-sectional study aimed to assess the status and correlates of HIV-related stigma among healthcare providers in Kerman, Iran. Methods: Using a validated and pilot-tested stigma scale questionnai...
Zamanian, Maryam Zolala, Farzaneh Haghdoost, Ali Akbar Baneshi, Mohammad Reza
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International Journal of Fertility & Sterility
Background Abortion is a sensitive issue surrounded by social, cultural and religious stigmata. Therefore, estimation of its prevalence involves methodological challenges. The aim of this manuscript is to estimate the abortion prevalence, stratified by type, using a direct and two indirect methods. Materials and Methods This cross-sectional study w...
Nikirashidi, Fatemeh Ghorashi, Zohreh Esmaeilzadeh, Shyasteh Asadollahi, Zahra
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Journal of Education and Health Promotion
BACKGROUND: Young people's attitudes toward marriage have been undergone changes in recent years and it seems to be contradicting in the struggle between conservative and modern liberal attitudes. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the attitude of new grooms toward intact hymen in Kerman. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This cross-sectional study has...
fallah-alipour, siavash boshrabadi, hossein mehrabi zare mehrjerdi, mohammad reza hayati, dariush
In developing countries, agricultural development is still a fundamental means of poverty alleviation, economic development and, in general, sustainable development. Despite the great emphasis on sustainable agricultural development, it seems that there are many practical difficulties towards empirical assessment of agricultural sustainability. In ...
Hosain Pour, Abbas Salari, Samira Ghasemi Nejad Almani, Pooya
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Current medical mycology
Candida species are the common opportunistic pathogens during the course of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. Oropharyngeal candidiasis (OPC) is generally known as the initial sign of HIV infection. The aim of this study was to compare demographic characteristics and frequency of Candida species between HIV/AIDS patients and non-HIV sub...
