BACKGROUND Health-related quality of life (HRQL) assessment is an important measure of the impact of a wide range of disease process on an individual. To date, no HRQL tool has been evaluated in an Iranian population with cardiovascular disorders, specifically myocardial infarction, a major cause of mortality and morbidity. The MacNew Heart Disease Health-related Quality of Life instrument is a...

objectives: falling is a common problem among the elderly. falling indoors and outdoors is highly prevalent among the iranian elderly. therefore, identification of the contributing factors at home and their modification can reduce falls and subsequent injuries inthe elderly. the goal of this study was to identify the elderly at risk of fall, using the ‘home falls and accident screening tool’ (h...

The aim of study was to evaluate the reliability of Persian form of quality of life questionnaire -36 Items in the patients with bipolar I disorder. Present study was cross sectional-descriptive. 50 patients with bipolar I disorder were selected from Mehregan hospital by convenient sampling. They were assessed with using of Persian form of quality of life questionnaire-36 items. 20 patients (40...

Persian is one of the Indo-European languages which has borrowed its script from Arabic, a member of Semitic language family. Since Persian and Arabic scripts are so similar, problems arise when we want to process an electronic text. In this paper, some of the common problems faced experimentally in developing a corpus for Persian are discussed. The sources of the problems are the Persian scrip...

introduction: now a day, resulting from life style modification and alteration, fatigue, as a consequence, is not uncommon symptom. diverse tools are available to measure fatigue status. one of which is facit fatigue scale. the facit is one of the most widely used questionnaires for screening fatigue. the questionnaire has been translated and validated? into 45 different languages, but there is...

background and aim: dichotic listening tests have been used to study right ear advantage (rea). fused dichotic rhymed word test (fdrwt), using rhymed words, is advantage­ous because of reducing the effect of attention on the test results. development of persian version of the fdrwt, and evaluation of its psychometric properties in normal children were the aims of the present study. methods: thi...

background: questionnaire is a suitable tool for evaluating the subjective masticatory function in edentulous patients. however, there is no validated persian version of masticatory function questionnaire. the aim of this study was to evaluate the psychometric properties of the translated persian version of the quality of masticatory function (qmf) questionnaire in terms of validity and reliabi...

conclusions the persian version of dad, during the study, had a very good validity and reliability and can serve as a useful scale in clinical assessment of functional disability in patients with alzheimer’s in the area of activities of daily living. background as dementia progresses in the course of life, one's functions may be reduced regarding to fulfill the activities of daily living. one o...

The Persian language is one of the dominant languages in the Middle East, so there are significant amount of Persian documents available on the Web. Due to the special and different nature of the Persian language compared to other languages like English, the design of information retrieval systems in Persian requires special considerations. However, there are relatively few studies on retrieval...

Persian is an Indo-European language written using Arabic script, and is an official language of Iran, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan. Transliteration of Persian to English—that is, the character-bycharacter mapping of a Persian word that is not readily available in a bilingual dictionary—is an unstudied problem. In this paper we make three novel contributions. First, we present performance compar...