aim and background: the aim of current study was to investigate the factor structure, reliability, and validity of parenting stress index-short form (psi-sf) among tehran city's mothers with 7-12 year-old children. methods and materials: after translation, back translation and adaptation of instrument, due to normalization this instrument by applied survey design, 468 mothers from those which s...

objective: to translate the structured clinical interview for dsm-iv axisi disorders (scid-i) into persian (farsi) and to adapt this instrument for the iranian culture. method: the scid was translated into persian using an elaborate procedure to achieve a satisfactory cross-cultural equivalent. this included forward translation by bilingual (english/persian) translators, discussion and revision...

introduction: mcgill pain questionnaire (mpq) is the most useful standard tools for pain assessment. due to cultural differences, the questionnaire has been translated into several languages. we aimed to translate and adapt mpq into persian language and assess its reliability in iranian cancer patients. methods: the mpq was translated by translation-base method with preserving the original stru...