BACKGROUND Empathy is an important factor in patient-physician relationship that has beneficial effects in medical practice. Jefferson scale of empathy (JSE) has been specifically designed to assess empathy in health professionals (HP-version) and related students (S-version). Few validation studies have been performed on S-version of the scale. AIMS To examine empathy in a large sample of Ir...

Background In medical sciences, commitment to lifelong learning has been expressed as an important element. Today, due to the rapid development of medical information and technology, lifelong learning is critical for safe medical care and development in medical research. JeffSPLL is one of the scales for measuring lifelong learning among the staff of medical sciences that has never been used in...

UNLABELLED Tinnitus is a debilitating condition that is widespread yet difficult to successfully diagnose and treat. This symptom can seriously affect the individual's life quality. OBJECTIVES The aim of current study was to compose and validate a Persian version of the Tinnitus Handicap Inventory (THI-P). MATERIALS AND METHODS The linguistic validation of the original version of THI into P...

It has never been investigated whether the assessment tools of Adult Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Quality-of-Life (AAQoL) scale and the SF-36 measure the same construct. The participants were 101 parents of children with ADHD and 243 parents of school children. The parents completed both the Persian version of the AAQoL and the SF-36 questionnaires. The present study revealed that t...

background: auditory rehabilitation isone of the important tasks of speech-language pathologists. so, it is necessary to know auditory behaviors in order to make some decisions about the children with hearing loss such as determining the effectiveness of the current rehabilitation programs and/or devices. the auditory behavior in everyday life (abel) questionnaire is a valid and reliable assess...

background: female sexual dysfunction (fsd) is a real problem that affects 25-63% of women. there is no valid persian version of sexual function questionnaire (fsq). objectives: the aim of this study was to test the reliability and validity of persian version of sexual function questionnaire. materials and methods: in this cross-sectional study, 547 women were questioned by persian version of s...

BACKGROUND Several epilepsy-specific quality of life questionnaires have been developed. One of them is quality of life in epilepsy-89 version. The objective of this study was to develop a Persian version of QOLE-89 and confirm its psychometric properties. MATERIALS AND METHODS Participants were 75 patients with epilepsy. The quality of life questionnaire was adapted to Persian language throu...

Aim The aim of the present study was to translate Postpartum Partner Support Scale (PPSS) into Persian and evaluate its psychometric properties among postpartum women. Design A total 248 women aged 18–39 years participated in this study. PPSS translated using a forward-backward method. Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) Rasch model were used assess PPSS. In addition, Edinburgh Depression (EPDS)...

BACKGROUND The aim was to assess the reliability and the validity of the translated version of the stroke specific quality of life (SS-QOL) questionnaire in Iranian post-stroke patients. METHODS This project was performed at the Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran, between 12 April 2010 and 24 February 2011. The English version of the SS-QOL was translated into Persian by "for...