BACKGROUND The effect of poor psychosocial work conditions on health status has widely been discussed in occupational literature. Job Content Questionnaire (JCQ) is a widely accepted instrument for evaluation of psychosocial work conditions. OBJECTIVE To determine the reliability and validity of Persian version of JCQ. METHODS The questionnaire was translated into Persian and back translate...

BACKGROUND Finding the right word is a necessity in communication, and its evaluation has always been a challenging clinical issue, suggesting the need for valid and reliable measurements. The Homophone Meaning Generation Test (HMGT) can measure the ability to switch between verbal concepts, which is required in word retrieval. The purpose of this study was to adapt and validate the Persian ver...

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:  to test the psychometric properties of the persian version of zarit burden interview (zbi-12) in the iranian opulation.  methods: after translating and cultural adaptation of the questionnaire into persian, 100 caregiver spouses of iran-iraq war (1980-88) veterans with chronic spinal cord injury who live in the city of mashhad, iran, invited to participate in the study. the persian...

Abstract Background Providing high quality and respectful care during pregnancy birth is one of the ways to reduce complications in women. Respectful a type that requires valid instrument measure. This study was conducted determine validity reliability Persian version Maternity Care (RMC) questionnaire 2018. Methods performed with 150 women (in first 48 h after birth), who were admitted postpar...

objective: the most commonly used instrument for the research and treatment of excessive internet use is young’s internet addiction test (iat). while the iat has been translated to several languages (including persian) and has demonstrated good psychometric properties across several independent studies, there is still a room for alternative assessment instruments. this study reports a validatio...

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...