Introduction: The present study was aimed at investigating the effectiveness of cognitive-behavioral group therapy in quality of life and hope among patients with multiple sclerosis (MS). Materials and Methods: In this clinical trial, using a quasi-experimental pretest-posttest control group design, 20 MS patients were selected through available sampling among the patients in Mashhad Multiple ...

abstract aim and background: this study aims to predict self-care behavior based on the characteristics of hardiness , hope and dysfunctional attitudes in patients with type 2 diabetes. methods and materials: study design was a descriptive correlation method. the target population was all patients with diabetes type 2 who referred to isfahan endocrine and metabolism centers. the sample consiste...

Abstract Popular hope-instruments differ significantly in how they define hope. Due to their length, these instruments are rarely used large-scale surveys or combined interdisciplinary research. This study validates short versions of four hope instruments; the Adult Trait Hope Scale; Herth Index; Locus Of and spiritual dimension Comprehensive Scale. Results show that function equally well as lo...

Objectives: Hope therapy is one of the psychological interventions to help the couples deal with addiction problem. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of the hope therapy on the orientation of the purpose and meaning of life expectancy in women with addicted husbands. Methods: This was a quasi-experimental study with pretest, posttest control group. The population of this ...

teachers’ sense of efficacy belief has been introduced as a context-specific construct, but the related literature is not clear on this specificity. this study was an attempt to show how contextual factors influence efficacy beliefs among english language teachers. to this end, thirty iranian efl teachers working in both school and private institute contexts were chosen as the participants to r...

the muslim scholars, philologists and rhetoricians are unanimous that the eloquence of the holy prophet, peace be upon him and his household, is unparalleled and there is nothing like his style and discourse. to put it in other words, the speech of the prophet is beneath the speech of god but above that of people in that it gathers the most comprehensive discourses and wonders of eloquence and ...

own views?-which are implicitly if not explicitly revealed in almost eveiy chapter?as to the need for mental nursing to be looked upon as a religious vocation rather than a professional career, and she feels it to be significant that in mental hospitals where the nursing and administrative control is in the hands of Religious Orders (usually in such cases the Rev. Mother is entirely responsible...

A large study by the MAQC consortium has established that different DNA microarray platforms can generate reproducible lists of differentially expressed genes. Now scientists are grappling with the challenges of moving the technology toward the clinic.