background and objectives: asthma is a chronic respiratory disease characterized by reversible contraction of airways. coping strategies can reduce the negative impact of the disease in individuals or cause incompatible behaviors by negative effect. this study aimed to evaluate the religious coping strategies in asthma patients and the relationship of religious coping and general health. method...

OBJECTIVE Investigate the structural coherency of the 60-item version of the General Health Questionnaire via exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses. METHOD The study design is a cross-sectional survey. A random sample of 146 individuals from the city of Divinópolis-MG volunteered to participate in the present study and responded to the 60-item version of the General Health Questionnair...

BACKGROUND According to Beck theory, dysfunctional attitude has a central role in emergence of depression. The aim of this study was to determine contributions of dysfunctional attitude and general health index to depression. METHODS In this case-control study, two groups of subjects participated. The first group consisted of 65 patients with major depression and dysthymic disorder, who were ...

The EUropean Research on Incapacitating DIseases and Social Support (EURIDISS) is an international longitudinal study focusing on patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA). It elaborates on the impact of the chronic disease on patients’ daily lives. Rheumatoid arthritis, social support and quality of life are the central concepts within the project. Goldberg and Hillier’s 28-item scaled version o...

Over a 1-year study period all patients admitted to the department of psychiatry in a general hospital were asked to complete the General Health Questionnaire at admission, discharge, and first polyclinic (outpatient) follow-up contact. Seventeen per cent of admissions were alcoholics. Alcoholics improved rapidly after admission to the psychiatric department. This improvement was comparable to ...

UNLABELLED The General Health Questionnaire (GHQ) was designed by Goldberg in the 1970's as a screening instrument to provide information on the mental wellbeing. Although it is widely used as a unidimensional instrument, factor analyses tend to suggest that it contains more than one dimension. AIM The purpose of this paper is to review the factor-analytic research that has been carried out w...

introduction teachers are one of the groups that in addition to teaching the students can have a role in control and identification of child abuse and violence in schools. certainly, before doing any action and choose an approach to reduce misbehavior, we should be aware of situation, how and prevalence of child abuse in schools. the present study aims to investigate the prevalence and types of...

the current research was done in order to determine contribution of components of quality of veterans’ wives’ life in prediction of their children’s general health. in this purpose 300 families (wife and child) were selected by random cluster sampling method from veterans’ families of hamedan province and quality of life questionnaire was administrated among veterans’ wives  and general  health...

OBJECTIVE Mental health is an essential component for positive adaptation that enables people to cope with adversity to achieve their full potential and humanity. In this study, using a community based approach, the social determinants of mental health in Iranian women were extracted; and in addition, priority setting for interventional programs according to analytical framework of WHO was impl...