Abstract Introduction Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is characterized by a recurrent complete or partial obstruction in the upper airways accompanied desaturation attacks and awakenings (arousal) during associated with excessive sleepiness poor quality of life. Excessive daytime (EDS) has long been recognized as most important symptom OSA Epworth scale (ESS) simple, easy-to-understand, self-repo...

this research is a cross-sectional study conducted to aim of comparison of self treatment between teacher and clinical nurse in tehran. in this study 100 teacher and 100 clinical nurses participate. for data gathering use of a questionnaire including tow part: one section about overall participants characteristics and another section including question about self treatment. the results show tha...

establishing of total quality management in any organization including emergency medical services need to an appropriate tool to help developing, implementing and evaluating of quality programs. the objective of this study was to develop a valid and reliable tool for self assessing enabler criteria of iran ems centers according to european foundation for quality management (efqm) model.the stud...

Background: Infertility as an important life stressor causes increased distress. The way of dealing with stress in individuals is different depending on the health locus of control. Also self- efficacy as an essential indicator of mental health determines how people cope with infertility. This study aimed to investigate the association of self efficacy with health locus of control and psycholog...