BACKGROUND The Regensburg Insomnia Scale (RIS) is a new self-rating scale to assess cognitive, emotional and behavioural aspects of psychophysiological insomnia (PI) with only ten items. A specific purpose of the new scale is the evaluation of the outcome of insomnia- specific cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT-I). METHODS Internal consistency of the RIS has been validated in 218 patients with ...

Background: Hospitalization can significantly disrupt sleeping patterns. Insomnia in the hospitalized patient leads to increased fatigue. Aims and Objectives: The aim of this study was to evaluate and compare sleep quality and fatigue of the hospitalized patients and match healthy controls. Methodology: This is a descriptive cross-sectional study. A total of 150 hospitalized patients (internal ...

It is unclear why aging causes a drop in lymphoid-biased HSC numbers and decline lymphoid progenitor quality. One possibility that stem cells have inherently programmed processes at work, which would imply these an internal clock controls their functionality lifetime. This study aims to summarize current evidence regarding the Effect of on White Blood Cells Count immunity. The PubMed database E...

Background: Psychological characteristics affect the quality of life. This study aimed at determining the relationship between personal characteristics, internal locus of control , psychological hardiness and nurses’ quality of life. Methods: In this correlation study, 297 nurses were selected based on Curgesy and Morgan table via multistage cluster sampling among 1023 nurses of the pu...

Nowadays, with increasing service industries, service marketing and service quality have become an important challenge to organizations. The attempts of organizations in this situation are witnesses to this matter. In the past years, the organizations tried to reach service quality appropriation and satisfaction of self-external customers by concepts and approaches of external marketing. One of...

the present research was conducted to analyze the genetic structure of egg quality traits in japanese quail. external and internal egg quality traits were assessed on 1706 eggs of laying japanese quail. eggs were collected for 4 days at the quaits 10 weeks of age. the investigated traits were analyzed through univariate as well as multivariate animal models employing restricted maximum likeliho...