OBJECTIVES To inform researchers and clinicians about the most appropriate generic and disease specific measures of health related quality of life for use among people with ischaemic heart disease. METHODS MEDLINE and BIDS were searched for research papers which contained a report of at least one of the three most common generic instruments or at least one of the five disease specific instrum...

quality of life has emerged as an important concept and outcome in health and health care. this study was performed to evaluate the ability of the health education program to improve quality of life of patients with coronary artery bypass graft surgery (cabg). in pre operation period, 70 patients were randomized in two groups, experimental and control group (35 patients in each). the demographi...

the aim of this study was to compare mental health, quality of life and emotional intelligence in physical education teachers and non-physical education teachers in kermanshah. this study was carried out by a causal-comparative and field method. the statistical population of this study comprised all the teachers of kermanshah (972 physical education teachers and 2854 non-physical education teac...

epilepsy is a chronic disease that affects different aspects of life; so we studied the quality of life of epileptic patients and compared it with general population of tehran. we collected clinical and demographic data and studied quality of life by using the iranian translation of short form 36 questionnaire version 2 (sf-36). the questionnaires were filled out by 200 patients with epilepsy r...

background : this study aimed to evaluate psychometric characteristics (diagnostic validity and reliability) of quality of life questionnaire in irritable bowel syndrome (ibs-qol) which is a popular inter-cultural measure. materials and methods: according to rome ii criteria 126 patients were included by the caring physician in alzahra and noor hospital clinics in isfahan, iran. results: eight ...

conclusions with improving some factors and qol of patients on hd, we can promote sq in these patients that it might lead to reduction in length of hospital stay. results the mean age of patients was 54.4 ± 17.1 years and 39.7% of patients were > 60 years old. the majority of our patients had poor sq (60.6%). patients with diabetes mellitus were significantly more likely to have poor quality of...

Introduction: Allergic rhinitis (AR) is a common airway disease. In order to study  the  prevalence of  AR in high school students  in  Kerman, the Score for Allergic Rhinitis (SFAR) was used and the quality of life  in  the  students  affected  by  rhinitis was  evaluated using the SF-36 questionnaire.   Materials and Methods: This was a cross-sectional, analytical, descriptive study, based o...

how to cite this article: rojhani shirazi m, tonekaboni sh, azargashb e, derakhshannia m, aghdasta e. exploring the psychometric properties of the farsi version of quality of life kindl questionnaire for 4-7 year-old children in iran. iran j child neurol. spring 2016; 10(2):42-52. abstract objective the aim of this study was to translate and validate the psychometric properties of the quality o...

background: symptoms of this with an overall negative impact on the psychosocial parameters in the patients,leading to a significant reduction of health-related quality of life. the aim of this study was toevaluate health-related quality of life in patients with endometriosis.endometriosis is a estrogen- depended and chronic gynecological disease. themethodshospitals affiliated tehran universit...

measuring health related quality of life of old people has become an important public health issue with the aging of population in developing countries. the aim of this study was to examine the health related quality of life of old people living in bandar abbas, iran. this was a population-based study in which a random sample of 1000 individuals of the community aged over 60 years were intervie...