Introduction: Since the hypertension disease is asymptomatic, Compliance and adherence is one of the essential problems. With a positive view to training either through health personnel and peer group in various aspects of life this study aimed to compare the effectiveness of training by peers with health personnel on blood pressure and adherence to treatment in hypertensive patient was done. ...

College athletics can place immense demands on athletes in terms of time commitment, physical conditioning, and pressure to perform. However, one important but less visible dimension affected by participation is one’s identity. hold multiple identities (Sturm et al., 2011) these are further refined through their experiences (Chang 2018). much known about athletes’ cognitive awareness others’ pe...

Regarding our article on the association of androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) with increased Alzheimer’s disease risk, Bowen et al, Froehner and Wirth, Leow et al, and Brady et al highlight a number of significant considerations that will prove important in the design of future studies that investigate the association of ADT and Alzheimer’s disease. We agree with Bowen et al and Leow et al tha...

abstract the aim of this study was to validate and localize lawson’s (2002) knowledge management and winand et al. (2009) performance models and to determine their effects and relationships in iran sports federations. this study was a descriptive-correlation research. the population included presidents, vice presidents, general secretaries, committee managers and experts in all sports federatio...

the main purpose of this study is analysis impact of information technology and organizational structure on strategic knowledge management in islamic azad university kermanshah branch. the statistical population of this study is 60 employees of islamic azad university kermanshah branch. in order to determine the sample size, cochran’s formula was used. consequently, 52 employees (bosses, deputi...

Assessment is an important element to the present and future of sport psychology (McCann et al., 2002), both in science and in practice. Yet, there exist few resources addressing the unique developmental parameters facing sport scientists and sport practitioners when it comes to conducting sound assessment across the athletic lifespan. Indeed, this aspect of the literature remains particularly ...

The role of sport has always been acknowledged, as there is variation in the role of sport participation and attainment of its benefits. The general understanding of the masses about role of sport has been positive and is regarded as the human friendly engagement in everyday life. According to Cote & Fraser [1] Sport has the potential to accomplish three important objectives which are physical ...

Client language during Motivational Interviewing interventions is an important predictor of drinking outcomes, but there are inconsistencies in the literature regarding what aspects of client language are most predictive. We characterized the structure of client language by factor analyzing frequency counts of several categories of client speech. The results provide limited support for a model ...