objectives: low back pain is one of the main health problems which affect many people worldwide. the daily course of life is highly disrupted due to the chronic back pain problem. this study aims to explore the occupational performance of individuals with chronic low back pain. methods: fifteen people with chronic low back pain were included in this study using purposeful sampling. the particip...

Background: During the course of disease, particularly of chronic diseases, changes in internal standards cause certain changes in the estimation of quality of life (QOL). These changes indicate the phenomenon of ‘response shift’. The present study aimed at assessing response shift in different scales of QOL in Iranian cancer patients.    Methods: To assess response shift...

Methods Patients seeking their initial treatment for chronic pain at one of the nine centers in an integrative medicine practice-based research network were eligible. Enrolled patients received a personalized integrative medicine intervention over the 24-week study period. In addition to the Brief Pain Inventory (BPI), participants also completed the SF-12, PSS-4, CES-D 20 and various numerical...

Chronic back pain is costly and potentially disabling, with low response to medical procedures. Poor physical and mental health demonstrate correlation with chronic back pain. The current study investigated the value of using health-related locus of control and pain-related self-efficacy to predict physical and mental health outcomes following multidisciplinary intervention for chronic back pai...

In this article we consider a new derivation mode for generalized communicating P systems (GCPS) corresponding to the functioning of population protocols (PP) and based on the sequential derivation mode and a fairness condition that permits to ensure a particular sequence of configurations. We show that PP can be seen as a particular variant of GCPS. We also consider several stochastic evolutio...

This study examines Great Cultural Projects (GCPs) as an element of the developmental process cities. For this study, GCPs are regarded a global phenomenon rather than cases that must be analyzed independently. The focused on four types GCPs: world and international exhibitions, horticultural Olympic Games, European Capitals Culture. research sample comprised 183 globally, organized between mid...

Background: The long-term outcomes of patients with chronic pain treated in a multidisciplinary pain management center remain variable. Objective: This study aims to evaluate the changes in outcomes of patient’s self-reported pain, psychosocial status, health related quality of life and gender differences following treatment in amultidisciplinary pain management centre. Design: A prospective lo...

STUDY DESIGN A correlative design using stepwise regression analysis. OBJECTIVE To explore the variation in spinal isometric strength that can be accounted for by anticipation of pain, sensory perception of pain, functional disability belief, and the fear-avoidance belief in chronic low back pain patients. SUMMARY OF THE BACKGROUND DATA Several biobehavioral factors contribute to the persis...