Background: Patients with sickle cell disease suffer from various complications during their lifetime and have to adapt themselves to this chronic disease through promoting their self-management and preventing complications of the disease. Chronic disease self-management programs are a combination of strategies that increase self-efficacy and promote self-management behaviors. The present study...

objective: the objective of this study was to investigate the invitro fluoride release of four new self-adhesive resin cements; set (sdi, australia), breeze (pentron, usa), embrace wetbond (pulpdent, usa), g-cem (gc, japan) and to assess the bonding performance of these self-adhesive resin cements for bonding of orthodontic brackets. materials and methods: for fluoride release experiment, six ...

Introduction: Because of the physical, psychological, and social changes, adolescence is associated with increased self-aggression and aggressive behaviors. The aim of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of parental management training on self-harm and aggression of students with self-injurious behavior in high school in Shiraz. Method: This study had a pre-test, post-test, and foll...

according to research, academic self-concept and academic achievement are mutually interdependent. in the present study, the aim was to determine the relationship between the academic self-concept and the academic achievement of students in english as a foreign language and general subjects. the participants were 320 students studying in 4th grade of high school in three cities of noor, nowshah...

This research is a quasi, experimental study in order to especify the effect of self-care training in reducing the epileptic seizures appearing in the epileptic patients referred to nerves clinics of the Medical science universities hospitals related to the Ministry of health, remedy and medical training of the city of Tehran in the year (1993-94) This research is done on a random basis on 68 e...

Introduction: Intellectual disability can affect all aspects of an individual's life. On the other hand, applying parenting educational programs has been associated with effective outcomes. Therefore, the present study aimed to assess the effectiveness of positive parenting program(Triple-P) on parental self-efficacy and mother-child interaction in children suffering from the intellectual disab...

this study aimed to investigate the effects of listening strategy training on iranian efl learners listening comprehension and use of such strategies. this work, employing an experimental methodology, was conducted among 60 adult efl learners from a language institute in isfahan, iran, as participants. the participants, who were selected based on the results of a placement test, were assigned t...