BACKGROUND AND AIM: A new perspective on health suggested that the ultimate goal of dental care, namely good oral hygiene, should no longer merely is seen as the absence of caries or periodontal disease; a patient's mental and social well-being should be considered as well. The concept of oral health-related quality of life (OHRQoL) captures the aim of this new perspective. The present article ...

Background: Heart valve disease gradually increases the pressure in the heart chambers and impairs heart pumping. It influences on quality of life due to low output, disability, fear, amnesia, anxiety, and depression. Although most of signs and symptoms in patients with heart valve diseases may significantly decrease after valve replacement surgery, there is limited information about the impact...

Background: Dermatologic diseases have considerable effects on patient's health-related quality of life (HRQoL). Patients' assessment of disease’s effects on their life is an important component of disease management. Although Skindex-29 is one of the most utilized measures for assessing dermatology-specific HRQoL, there is no Persian version of it in Iran. This study aimed to translate Skindex...

objective: this study aimed to detail the phenomenology and psychiatric comorbidities in patients with pathologic skin picking (psp). method: forty five subjects (30% males) with psp (mean s.d. =33.210.9) were assessed. subjects were assessed for psychiatric co morbidity using general health questionnaire (ghq). the yale-brown obsessive compulsive scale (y-bocs) was used to assess obsessive com...

background: today, renal disease is one of the major worldwide health problems. it has a high prevalence, which increases 8% annually. incidence of renal disease and treatment techniques can affect the quality of life, health status and social roles of patients. the aim of the current study was to determine the quality of life of dialysis and kidney transplant patients and compare it to healthy...