Introduction and Aim: It is necessary to identify effective psychological therapies to improve pain in patients with musculoskeletal pain. Therefore, the aim of this study was to determine the effectiveness of acceptance and commitment therapy on pain perception and pain self-efficacy in patients with chronic musculoskeletal pain Methods: The present study was a quasi-experimental pretest-post...

 Aim and background:Chronic pain is an important public health problem that seriously affects people’s everyday lives. Aggression has been widely observed in patients with chronic pains and several studies have suggested that aggression is highly associated with chronic pain intensity. The aim of the current study was to test the effectiveness of cognitive self-management program in reducing ag...

objective: the objective of this study was to investigate the invitro fluoride release of four new self-adhesive resin cements; set (sdi, australia), breeze (pentron, usa), embrace wetbond (pulpdent, usa), g-cem (gc, japan) and to assess the bonding performance of these self-adhesive resin cements for bonding of orthodontic brackets. materials and methods: for fluoride release experiment, six ...

according to research, academic self-concept and academic achievement are mutually interdependent. in the present study, the aim was to determine the relationship between the academic self-concept and the academic achievement of students in english as a foreign language and general subjects. the participants were 320 students studying in 4th grade of high school in three cities of noor, nowshah...

  Background: Self- care has an important role in management of patients with chronic renal failure. The present study was implemented to determine self-care agency among patients with chronic renal failure undergoing hemodialysis .   Methods: In this descriptive cross-sectional study, 139 End stage renal disease patients undergoing hemodialysis in Boali hospital of Ardebil (22 June -22 July 20...

Abstract Background & Aim: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) has been considered as one of the most common chronic diseases that lead to drop in authority and function in patients, and this has caused significant challenges in the care systems. The aim of this study is to investigate the effect of self-management program on self-efficacy in patients with COPD to find efficient met...

Background and Purpose: To improve life quality, and lower mortality and rehospitalization for heart failure patients, awareness and adherence to self-care behaviors are essential. This study aims to determine the adherence level to self-care behaviors in the patients with systolic heart failure hospitalized in Alborz hospital in Karaj andShahriar hospital, and it was conducted in 2013. Methods...

Introduction: The aim of the present study was to compare the efficacy of ACT with STSFT on pain self-efficacy and resilience of female students with chronic headache. Methods: The method of this study was semi-experimental with pre-test, post-test and follow up with the control group. The population of the study consisted of female students with chronic headache in the secondary school of Tab...