OBJECTIVES Investigating some pertinent factors associated with elementary education teachers' quality of life working in the Brazilian city of Florianopolis and surrounding district. METHODS 349 state and municipal school system elementary school teachers working in the city and its surrounding areas answered a questionnaire containing work-related questions and the WHO Quality of Life-BREF ...

Introduction: The relationship between epilepsy and psychiatric disorders is an important issue for researchers which affect the quality of life among patients. Psychiatric comorbidities such as depression and anxiety, is associated with negative course of epilepsy, more complications, poor drug tolerance and higher mortality rates. In addition to the epileptic patients, their families are also...

OBJECTIVE To identify the level of depression, the level of life quality, and the relationship between these, in patients applying to sleep centers for various sleep problems. METHODS This cross-sectional study included 229 patients who applied for polysomnography at sleeping centers under supervision of the Neurology and Chest Diseases Clinics of Kayseri Education and Research Hospital, Kays...

OBJECTIVE This pilot study investigated the effects of multiple training modalities on cognition, neuropsychiatric symptoms, caregivers' burden, and quality of life in patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD). PATIENTS AND METHODS This intervention study was conducted in 24 patients with AD aged ≥65 years with a Clinical Dementia Rating (CDR) score of 0.5-1. The patients were assigned to receiv...

social determinants of health is one of the topics that has attracted researchers' attention in recent decades, which is consistent with it, the public health, as one of the influencing factors to quality of life is taken into consideration. the purpose of this study was to examine the impact of social well-being on quality of life among meshginshahr pnu students with using survey method. ...

Aim: The aim of the study was to determine the quality of life of patients with diabetic foot syndrome in selected health care facilities in the Moravian-Silesian Region using the standardized WHOQOL-BREF questionnaire. Methods: A Czech version of the standardized WHOQOL-BREF questionnaire was used to determine the quality of life of patients with diabetic foot syndrome. The sample consisted of...

Studies evaluating the Quality of Life of individuals with spinal cord injury using different research tools demonstrate that the Quality of Life scores are considered low both in national and international studies. The objective of this review was to characterize the international scientific production about the most used scales to assess Quality of Life in patients with spinal cord injury. We...

OBJECTIVE This study aimed to investigate the impact of the internalized stigmatization on bipolar disorder (BD) patients. MATERIALS AND METHODS The study included 100 BD patients that provided written informed consent to participate. Diagnosis of the BD patients that were in remission and receiving outpatient treatment was performed using the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV Axis I D...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to demonstrate the validity and reliability of the Portuguese version of the Quality of Life Enjoyment and Satisfaction Questionnaire (Q-LES-Q) among substance users in southern Brazil. METHODS The original English version of the Q-LES-Q was translated into Portuguese taking into account semantic and conceptual equivalence. The Portuguese versions of the Q-...

BACKGROUND This study evaluates the psychometric properties of the Malay version of the Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS-M) among patients with schizophrenia in a psychiatric outpatient clinic. METHODS Ninety-nine schizophrenia outpatients were administered the Malay version of the Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS-M), Malay version of Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS), Mala...