conclusions it can be concluded that smoking and alcohol consumption may be related to poor hrqol in physical education and sports students despite the fact that they regularly engage in sports programs that could positively affect their hrqol. background health-related quality of life (hrqol) is an important determinant in a person’s life. objectives in this study aimed at physical education s...

the clinical copd questionnaire (ccq) has been developed to measure the health status of copd patients. the aim of this study was to translate ccq into the persian language and assess the validity and reliability of the translated version. we used a forward-backward procedure to translate the questionnaire. in a cross-sectional study 100 copd patients and 50 healthy subjects over 40 years old w...

BACKGROUND Few publications report on the relationship between salutogenesis, as measured by the concept of sense of coherence, and oral health-related quality of life. Even less information is to be found when the behavioural aspect of dental anxiety is added. The aim of the present study was to evaluate how oral health-related quality of life is related to sense of coherence and dental anxiet...

background & aim : prostate cancer is one of the most common cancers in males and the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths in palestine. although, many studies were conducted in de- veloped countries to evaluate quality of life (qol) in survivors of prostate cancer, the researchers could not find any study that was conducted in a developing country including palestine. therefore, the p...

Background: The need for assessment of oral health related quality of life has been increased over the last decades. The aim of this study was to develop a Persian version of the Oral Health Impact Profile (OHIP)-14 and to evaluate its reliability and validity for its use in Persian-speaking communities. Methods: The original version of the OHIP-14 was translated into the Persian language using...

Abstract Introduction: This cross-sectional research compares the changes in quality of life (QoL) in adolescents experiencing growth modification therapy affected by the COVID-19 pandemic from 2019 to 2020. The participants were among those referring to the orthodontic department of Hamadan Dental School. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of growth modification on oral health r...

Introduction: Quality of life is defined as the sense of well-being and satisfaction with daily performances influenced by dental and oral conditions. Oral diseases are very common and have impacts on different aspects of individual's life and can change their performances. In other word, they can change the quality of life. The real impact of health and disease on daily performances is conside...

The aim of this study was to examine the pathways between temporomandibular disorders (TMDs), occlusal characteristics, facial pain, and oral health-related quality of life in patients with severe malocclusion. The study comprised 94 (34 men and 60 women, mean age 38 years) adult patients who were referred for orthodontic or surgical-orthodontic treatment. All the patients had severe malocclusi...