background β-thalassemia is a prevalent genetic disease in mediterranean countries. the most common treatments for this disease are blood transfusion plus iron chelation (btic) therapy and bone marrow transplantation (bmt). patients using these procedures experience different health-related quality of life (hrqol). the purpose of the present study was to measure hrqol in these patients using 2...

background: the coronary artery bypass grafting (cabg) is performed to completely or partially relieve the symptoms of coronary heart disease (chd). one of the most important goals of this operation is the improvement of quality of life (qol). the data obtained on healthrelated quality of life (hrqol) represents the functional limitations and the alleviation of symptoms among patients. many fac...

background: heart failure is a severe chronic disease and has a negative impact on the health-related quality of life (hrql). in addition to preventing disease progress, one of the important goals in heart failure treatment is to improve the patient’s quality of life. this study is aimed to compare three generic to specific quality of life instruments that are used in cardiac rehabilitation set...

background: the unified treatment approach (up), an emotion-focused cognitive-behavioral therapy that holds emotional processes as a central target of treatment, is applicable for disorders with strong emotional components. the aim of this study was to examine the effectiveness of emotion regulation intervention derivative from the up on emotional problems and quality of life among patients wit...

conclusions it can be concluded that smoking and alcohol consumption may be related to poor hrqol in physical education and sports students despite the fact that they regularly engage in sports programs that could positively affect their hrqol. background health-related quality of life (hrqol) is an important determinant in a person’s life. objectives in this study aimed at physical education s...

the clinical copd questionnaire (ccq) has been developed to measure the health status of copd patients. the aim of this study was to translate ccq into the persian language and assess the validity and reliability of the translated version. we used a forward-backward procedure to translate the questionnaire. in a cross-sectional study 100 copd patients and 50 healthy subjects over 40 years old w...

background & aim : prostate cancer is one of the most common cancers in males and the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths in palestine. although, many studies were conducted in de- veloped countries to evaluate quality of life (qol) in survivors of prostate cancer, the researchers could not find any study that was conducted in a developing country including palestine. therefore, the p...

objective: oral health status particularly maxillofacial disorders in adolescents can affect different aspects of the quality of life. this study aimed to assess the age-related quality of life of students in two age groups of 11-14 years and 14-18 years to evaluate its correlation with orthodontic treatment need in adolescents in isfahan. methods: this cross-sectional study was conducted on 11...

introduction : oral health is an important aspect of public health which affects people’s quality of life. oral health related quality of life is assessed to evaluate the effect of different diseases on individual’s daily life quality. the aim of this study was to examine the oral health related quality of life in patients with head and neck tumors who received radio and chemotherapy. materials...