Setting
psychiatric
This study was conducted in psychiatric centers of the three teaching, specialty, and subspecialty Ibn-e-Sina, Ostad Moharary, and Hafez hospitals affiliated with Shiraz University of Medical Sciences (SUMS). These three centers are the main psychiatric centers in southern Iran and offer inpatient and outpatient specialized psychiatric services to adults and adolescences with mental health problems.Shiraz is the capital of Fars province, which has a population of around 1.8 million, making it the fifth most populous city in Iran and first in the southern half of the country [