OBJECTIVE To evaluate the efficacy of a psychoeducation program for parents of children with ADHD in enhancing adherence to pharmacological treatment and improving clinical symptoms. METHODS We developed a psychoeducation program based on the theory of planned behavior (TPB). Eighty-nine children with ADHD were cluster randomly assigned for their families to receive 3 months of well-structure...

INTRODUCTION Postpartum depression and its consequences not only involve mothers and their children but it will also affect their families. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate the effect of mothers receiving peer support on postpartum depression. METHODS 100 eligible primiparous women participated in a randomized clinical trial. The intervention group received phone calls by their peer...

PURPOSE Self-management majorly determines the health status of patients with epilepsy because the most important strategies for controlling seizures include receiving and adhering to prescribed therapies, and making appropriate lifestyle adjustments. Patients with epilepsy have various educational needs and must adopt many self-management behaviors to control their condition. This study was a ...

OBJECTIVE The objectives of this study were to assess the elongation of the styloid process on digital panoramic radiographs and to evaluate the prevalence of the elongation according to age, sex and types. PATIENTS AND METHODS Digital panoramic radiographs of 198 geriatric edentulous patients were analyzed. The radiographic length of the styloid process was measured on both sides using the m...

PURPOSE This study was conducted to examine effects of a cardiocerebrovascular disease (CVD) prevention education program on knowledge, self-efficacy and health behavior among postmenopausal middle-aged women. METHODS A non-equivalent control group pretest-posttest design was used. Participants were 53 postmenopausal middle-aged women who registered in two community culture centers in G metro...

This study was designed to find out the anxiety levels of the mothers in relation to birth status of the babies and anxiety in relation to age of the mothers. The sample consisted mothers of 25 premature born babies and mothers of 25 normal born babies. They were given by the Bengali version of “Dutt Personality Inventory” to answer. Data were analyzed by t-test, chi-square and product moment c...

METHODS A mailed survey was sent to 5000 randomly selected women from the United States (controls) and 407 women with IC from a large referral center (cases). The Female Sexual Distress Scale and questions about sexual function, desire, orgasm, and pain were included. The Student t test was used to compare the mean values, and the chi-square test was used to compare the proportions between the ...

Many complex engineering problems have multi-objectives where each objective is conflicting with others. However, a lot research Jiradej Ponsawat et al. 2 works in optimization by Competent Genetic Algorithm are focused on single objective methods. These algorithms work very well for single objective problems but stumble when trying to discover a large number of solutions naturally occurred in ...