background: osteoarthritis of the knee is the most common chronic joint disease that involves middle aged and elderly persons. there are different clinical instruments to quantify the health status of patients with knee osteoarthritis and one example is the womac score that has been translated and adapted into different languages. the purpose of this study was cultural adaptation, validation an...

BACKGROUND In recent decades there has been increasing focus on developing and localizing quality of life (QOL) instruments in different societies. In this study, we aim to translate WHO's Quality of Life WHOQOL-100 questionnaire into the Persian language and assess the validity and reliability of the translated version. METHODS   We used a forward-backward procedure to translate the question...

The Persian Universal Dependency Treebank (Persian UD) is a recent effort of treebanking Persian with Universal Dependencies (UD), an ongoing project that designs unified and cross-linguistically valid grammatical representations including part-of-speech tags, morphological features, and dependency relations. The Persian UD is the converted version of the Uppsala Persian Dependency Treebank (UP...

OBJECTIVE Type D personality is based on negative affectivity (NA) and social inhibition (SI). The purpose of this study was to examine the reliability and validity of the Persian version of 14-item Type D personality scale (DS14). METHODS The study included 191 normal participants and 176 patients with myocardial infarction (MI). They all filled out the Persian version of DS14, containing 7-...

BACKGROUND The Nordic Safety Climate Questionnaire-50 (NOSACQ-50) was developed by a team of Nordic occupational safety researchers based on safety climate and psychological theories. The aim of this study was to develop and validate the Persian version of NOSACQ-50 and assess the score of safety climate on a group of workers in a steel company in Iran. METHODS The Persian version of NOSACQ-5...

INTRODUCTION The Dysphagia Handicap Index (DHI) is one of the instruments used for measuring a dysphagic patient's self-assessment. In some ways, it reflects the patient's quality of life. Although it has been recognized and widely applied in English speaking populations, it has not been used in its present forms in Persian speaking countries. The purpose of this study was to adapt a Persian ve...