happiness is among the concepts which were subject of empirical studies in 1960s. this concept has been used interchangeably with such concepts as joy, satisfaction with life and the like. while meaningfully correlating with the feeling of joy and satisfaction with life, as indicated by numerous researches, the feeling of happiness is affected by different factors and situations. the present re...

social happiness is one of the humanity’s most necessary innate needs and which plays a crucial role in the sublimity of individuals and society. reaching this would occur once individual has either physical or mental health. one of the effective factors in increasing the amount of individuals’ social happiness especially in women is providing them with mental dimension of security e.g. felling...

please cite this article as : heidarnia ma, ghaemian t, montazeri a, abadi ar. evaluation of the relation between poverty and health-related quality of life in the people over 60 years-old in the district 4 of tehran municipality in 2009-2010. novel biomed 2013;1:23-28. as the articles in recent years well indicate, more than all other factors, social determinants of health are involved in peop...

Chronic pain is the most serious long-term complication after groin hernia repair. The aim of this preliminary research was to assess the quality of life before and after standard tension-free mesh repair and new method of tension-free inguinal hernia repair using anterior rectus sheath. Total of 62 patients were evaluated. Anterior rectus sheath method was performed in 29 patients and in 33 pa...

Background: Psoriasis is a chronic disease that may affect patients’ quality of life. We investigated the quality of life (QoL) and its related factors in psoriasis patients. Methods: In this cross-sectional study, 123 patients with psoriasis vulgaris were enrolled, who were at the age of 18-55 years. The QoL was assessed by the psoriasis disability index (PDI...

a:4:{s:10:"Background";s:1701:"Endometriosis is a gynecological benign tumor that is estrogen-dependent, in this kind of disease uterus tissue grows into the pelvic cavity of ectopic, and 20-30% of these patients are infertile. Clinical symptoms such as dysmenorrhea, dyspareunia and depression and in some cases arise in asymptomatic. Because the lack of ovulation and menstruation, the pain reli...

background and aim: hearing impairment is one of the common disabilities quality of life of mothers of children with hearing impairment are often lower than others. this study aimed to evaluate the effects of life skills training (lst) on the quality of life of mothers who have children with hearing impairment. methods: an experimental research method (pretest, post-test with control group desi...

conclusions our findings show that, at provincial levels, a complex set of known/unknown influencing factors affect individuals’ assessments of their own health quality. understanding these patterns of srh and ls could be useful for better health policy and more targeted studies in this field. background self-rated health (srh) and life satisfaction (ls) are of increasing interest to medical re...