the present study aimed at validating the structure of career decision-making difficulties questionnaire (cddq).five hundred and eleven undergraduate students took part in this research; from these participants, 63 males and 200 females took part in the first study, and 63 males and 185 females completed the survey for the second study.the results of exploratory factor analysis (efa) indicated ...

background: the aim of this study was to investigate the psychometric properties of social capital questionnaire (scq) developed by onyx and bullen (2000) among a sample of medical science students in tehran university of medical sciences, iran and to compare the factor analysis with findings from two previous studies in australia and the united states. methods: multistage cluster sampling was ...

a valid questionnaire is a precursor to a sound measurement process. this study examined the psychometric properties of the persian version of the revised competitive state anxiety inventory – 2 (csai-2r). a total of 131 female taekwondo athletes (mean age =12.37 ± 2.52) from damghan completed csai-2r at competition venues. confirmatory factor analysis was used to analyze the structure of csai-...

Methods We performed a cross-sectional study on patients with CHC, in a tertiary-care hospital in November 2011 – April 2012. We staged liver fibrosis using FibroMax (BioPredictive) and we used CobasTaqman (Roche) for HCV-RNA quantification. Patients were also evaluated by ALT, platelets, erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR), fibrinogen, C-reactive protein (CRP) and tumor necrosis factor alpha ...

PURPOSE To evaluate the prognostic significance of preoperative CA-125 levels on overall survival of patients with International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics (FIGO) stage I epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC). PATIENTS AND METHODS Data from 518 patients with FIGO stage I EOC treated in seven gynecologic oncology centers throughout Australia between 1990 and 2002 were analyzed. Patients...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study is to validate the Gynecologic Oncology Group (GOG) criteria for adjuvant treatment in a different cohort of patients and to evaluate the simplified risk criteria predicting the prognosis and tailoring adjuvant treatment in patients with surgically staged endometrial cancer. METHODS We performed a retrospective analysis of 261 consecutive patients with surg...

OBJECTIVES The authors sought to compare the effectiveness of the different revascularization strategies in ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) patients with multivessel coronary artery disease undergoing primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). BACKGROUND Recent randomized trials have suggested that multivessel complete revascularization at the time of primary percuta...

resources’ scarcity, especially in developing countries, has caused allocation essentially among competing activities to create value. the importance of resource allocation would be more understood if we pay attention to growing complexity in societies and economic development problems they face. in the context of the national economic development literature, the notion of “key or critical sect...