introduction: osteoarthritis (oa) is a common degenerative joint disease particularly in older subjects. it is usually associated with pain, restricted range of motion, muscle weakness, difficulties in daily living activities and impaired quality of life. to determine the effects of adding two different intensities of low-level laser therapy (lllt) to exercise training program on pain severity,...

background: with regard to the importance of life skills, the present study deals with the effect of life skills training on general health of the students . materials and methods: this was a one-group, pre-test, post-test, quasi-experimental research. forty students were selected through purposive sampling method. the data collection tool was goldberg general health questionnaire. results: pai...

acne is the most common skin disease and isotretinoin is the most powerful drug among the various drugs used for its treatment, but it has some adverse effects. the aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of isotretinoin on depression and quality of life of a group of patients undergoing isotretinoin therapy before and after the treatment course.in this prospective study, 98 patients with ...

objectives: the purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of life review therapy on depression reduction of elder women of yazd. methods & materials: method of the research was semi-experimental design by pre-post test with a control group. research population consisted of the elder women who were nursing home residents in yazd. the fateme_alzahra nursing home of taft was rando...

abstract background and objectives: quality of working life (qwl) is an important issue and examination of the spects that can affect it causes promotion of individual and organizational productivity. this study was conducted to investigate correlation between health correlates and the qwl in the emloyees of the islamic azad university, lahijan branch. methods: this descriptive-correlational st...

conclusions the present study showed that life skills training program did not affect self-efficacy of nursing students. perhaps, the methods used in education were influencing and then, more effective techniques such as role-play and group discussion should be substituted in life skills training. results in the untrained and trained groups, 23% and 8% of the students had very high self-efficac...

conclusions it can be concluded that schizophrenia can have an effect on the quality of life. some items such as family care, early and on time treatment play an important role in increasing the quality of life. results the participants in this study gained the highest quality of life in the domain of physical, environmental and psychological health and social relationships. there was no signif...

conclusions based on the study results, making plans to promote mental aspect of nurses, focusing on family foundations like marriage, reducing and distributing working hours, and decreasing night shifts hours of nurses could reduce their depression and improve their quality of life. results according to the final model yielded from path analysis, the most important factors contributing to depr...