Social Life After Hip Fracture: A Qualitative Study.

The return to social life after a hip fracture is a major concern for patients and a determinant factor in their recovery. However, patients' perceptions of social life after hip fracture are variable and context-dependent. By identifying these perceptions and strategies of patients, interventions can be strengthened and modified.

Confirmatory factor analysis and gender invariance of Persian version of the modified Yale food addiction scale (mPYFAS) 2.0: insight from a large scale Iranian sample.

Background: The Modified Yale Food Addiction Scale 2.0 (mYFAS 2.0) was developed with the primary objective of evaluating food addiction (FA).

The process of social death in patients with hip fracture.

People with chronic disability and uncontrollable long-term complications following hip fracture have characterist.ics that may predispose them to social death. Continuous physical disability can have negative physical, psychological, and social consequences in these patients.

Designing a fuzzy decision support framework for assessing solid waste management in the South European region.

The environmental planning of cities and rural regions is associated with monitoring the performance of several services, including solid waste management. This study proposes a new framework for the comparative assessment of the performance of integrated municipal solid waste management. The framework includes the fuzzy MACBETH multi-criteria decision-making model used to investigate the uncertainties and inefficiencies associated with solid waste management systems.

COVID-19 detection using chest X-ray images based on a developed deep neural network.

Aim: Currently, a new coronavirus called COVID-19 is the biggest challenge of the human at 21st century. Now, the spread of this virus is such that mortality has risen strongly in all cities of countries. Therefore, it is necessary to think of a solution to handle the disease by fast and timely diagnosis.

Social death in patients: Concept analysis with an evolutionary approach.

Social death is an important concept that should be considered in a wide range of patients, especially in chronic diseases. Despite, there is still no clear and comprehensive definition of social death in medicine. The present study was thus conducted with Rodgers' evolutionary concept analysis method to identify the key features and provide a clear definition of social death in patients and understand its background and consequences.

Dataset of parenting practices, self-control and anti-social behaviors: Meta-analytic structural equation modeling.

This dataset is used to clarify the nexus between effective parenting practices, low self-control, and anti-social behaviors in Gottfredson and Hirschi's General Theory of Crime (GTC). The analysis included 72 articles reporting 255 effect sizes (N = 94,604). We used the method of Meta-Analytic Structural Equation Modeling (MASEM) to test the assumptions of GTC.

The Effect of 20 Minutes Scuba Diving on Cognitive Function of Professional Scuba Divers.

Background: Physical activity increases the performance of the nervous system by stimulating the body's metabolism and improving the efficiency of the ATP production system.

Objectives: In the present study, the effect of twenty minutes scuba diving in high depth (10m) on cognitive function and stress system activity was investigated.

Methods: Twelve professional scuba divers with a mean age of 23 ± 1 year, weight of 80 ± 2.

Quality of life among human immunodeficiency virus-1 infected and human immunodeficiency virus-1/hepatitis C virus co-infected individuals in Iranian patients.

Background: The aim of this study was to compare the quality of life (QOL) of people infected with both hepatitis C virus (HCV) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). The study design was a cross sectional descriptive survey, using self administered questionnaires.

Materials And Methods: A convenience sample of 242 patients (131 of them HIV/HCV), Iranian adults (aged 18-57) living with HIV/AIDS, was recruited from outpatient referring to Imam Khomeini Hospital behavioral counseling center in Tehran city, Iran.

Effectiveness of Hope Therapy Protocol on Depression and Hope in Amphetamine Users.

Background: Addiction has surpassed the boundaries of health and treatment and turned into a social crisis and a debilitating and major concern in today's world. Amphetamine, one of the addictive drugs, is classified as psycho-stimulants drugs, which increase arousal, alertness, and motor activity. Humans report that this drug produces a significant euphoria and is highly addictive.