background nowadays drug dependence has become one of the main concerns worldwide. indeed, drug dependence and abuse have become personal, social and, health problems that intensively threat human resources. objectives this study aimed to examine the effect of mindfulness-based stress reduction (mbsr) on health-related quality of life (hrqol) in drug-dependent males. patients and methods an exp...

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...

diabetes is a chronic disease of lifelong duration, and its management requires a fundamental change in the patient’s lifestyle. the aims of this study were to determine behaviors of diabetic patients in relation to management of their disease, assess metabolic control and health-related quality of life of them. the target population was type 2 diabetic patients and a cross-sectional approach w...

background: health related quality of life is an important outcome measure in studies involving patients with chronic neurological conditions. disease specific patient reported outcome measures (proms) are increasingly used as primary end points in clinical trials. the most widely used disease specific prom is the 39 item parkinson's disease questionnaire (pdq-39). the aim of this study was to ...