background: as key determinants of many favorable health and quality of life outcomes, it is important to identify factors associated with mobility and social participation. although several investigations have been carried out on mobility, social participation and neighborhood environment, there is no clear integration of these results. this paper presents a scoping study protocol that aims to...

Abstract This study investigated associations among loneliness, social support, participation, and well-being the Japanese elderly. We predicted that negative association between loneliness would be weaker in people with adequate support frequent participation. measured ikigai life satisfaction as indices of well-being. Ikigai both include a person’s current past life, yet also includes unique ...

BACKGROUND While there are numerous instruments for capturing the symptoms of fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS) patients, there is a lack of questionnaires capable of measuring in detail FMS patients' participation and social functioning. It was our aim to develop and methodologically test a new patient questionnaire specific to FMS measuring these concepts (the "Fibromyalgia Participation Questionna...

Background & aim: Sexual satisfaction is one of the most important aspects of sexual function, and it plays an essential role in marital satisfaction. This study was conducted to evaluate the relationship of social participation with female sexual function and satisfaction at reproductive age. Methods: In this comparative descriptive study, the data was obtained from a total of 284 married Iran...

new concepts have formed in transition of traditional urban planning concept that their essence refers to sociology and even psychology and so has made urban planning interdisciplinary concept, could be titled social capital and sense of place and participation. in fact places have two aspects, material and immaterial and can form emotional feeling among its residents. these feeling which led t...

OBJECTIVE To assess the importance of different social roles in the lives of people with osteoarthritis (OA), and satisfaction with time spent in roles and role performance, as well as the relationship of demographic, health, and psychological factors to role perceptions. METHODS Sixty women and 27 men (age 42-86 yrs) with hip or knee OA were recruited from rehabilitation programs and communi...

BACKGROUND The International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) defines participation as a person's performance in life situations, including the size of social networks, and satisfaction with social contacts. Stroke survivors are known to experience a reduction in the number of their social networks and contacts, which cannot be explained solely in terms of activity lim...