BACKGROUND Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a chronic disease associated with high degrees of morbidity and increased mortality. Health-related quality of life (HRQOL) among adults with sickle cell disease has not been widely reported. METHODS We administered the Medical Outcomes Study 36-item Short-Form to 308 patients in the Pain in Sickle Cell Epidemiology Study (PiSCES) to assess HRQOL. Scale...

While workplace physical exercise can help manage musculoskeletal disorders, less is known about psychosocial effects of such interventions. This aim of this study was to investigate the effect of workplace physical exercise on psychosocial factors among workers with chronic musculoskeletal pain.The trial design was a 2-armed parallel-group randomized controlled trial with allocation concealmen...

A R T I C L E I N F O A B S T R A C T Article history: Received: 06 April, 2017 Accepted: 28 April, 2017 Online: 17 May, 2017 We have been developing a method of evaluating the mental health condition of a person based on the sound of their voice. Currently, we have applied this technology to create a smartphone application that shows the vitality and the mental activity as mental health condit...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Little is known about the associations of post-stroke fatigue or its influence on survival. The vitality component of the Short Form 36 (SF-36) is a valid and reliable measure of post-stroke fatigue. We sought to identify associates of post-stroke fatigue and determine whether fatigue predicted survival. METHODS We used SF-36 vitality scores obtained by postal questionn...

knowing and conducting studies on size characters of trees is essential for assessing the tree volumeand/or other statistical parameters and also forest management. the characteristics of 529 treesincluding diameter at breast height (dbh) and total height were measured in an even-aged fraxinusstand for two periods from 2005 to 2012 in chelir district, a part of experimental kheyrud forest.resul...