background: breast cancer is the most common malignancy among iranian women and is a significant stressor in women’s life that may affect their coping strategies and quality of life. this study aimed to investigate coping strategies, quality of life and pain of women with breast cancer. materials and methods: this was a cross‑sectional study which held in seyed‑al shohada hospital and two priva...

OBJECTIVES Treatments of female sexual dysfunction have been largely unsuccessful because they do not address the psychological factors that underlie female sexuality. Negative self-evaluative processes interfere with the ability to attend and register physiological changes (interoceptive awareness). This study explores the effect of mindfulness meditation training on interoceptive awareness an...


 OBJECTIVES:
 To examine the psychological issues following acquired limb amputation and significance of positive self-esteem in adjustment amputation.
 METHODOLOGY:
 This case study was conducted surgical orthopedic units different government private hospitals Peshawar district. The includes a sample 100 amputees,both adult males females admitted Peshawar. Patients with co...

BACKGROUND The functional consequences of an age-related insulin resistance (IR) state on muscle functioning are unknown. Because insulin is needed for adequate muscle function, an age-related insulin-resistant state may also be a determining factor. We evaluated the relationship between IR and handgrip muscle strength in men and women from a large population-based study (n = 968). METHODS Th...

OBJECTIVE To examine pregnant women's weight-related attitudes and behaviors in relation to a constellation of psychosocial characteristics, prepregnancy body habitus, and gestational weight gain. PARTICIPANTS One hundred-thirty women with low-risk, normal pregnancies. DESIGN Cross-sectional, observational study assessed attitudes about weight gain at 36 weeks' gestation. Psychosocial chara...

The mini Broad Absorption Line (BAL) quasar RX J0911.4+0551 was observed with the Advanced CCD Imaging Spectrometer (ACIS) of the Chandra X-ray Observatory for ∼ 29 ks as part of a gravitational lens (GL) survey aimed at measuring time-delays. Timing analysis of the light-curve of the lensed image A2 shows a rapid flux variation with a duration of about 2000s. A Kolmogorov-Smirnov test shows th...

Previous studies have demonstrated that the illness perceptions of doctors can affect treatment outcomes. This is likely to be particularly relevant in chronic disorders such as epilepsy or nonepileptic attack disorder (NEAD) in which treatment success depends on adherence to tablet treatments with significant side effects or a potentially difficult process of engagement in psychological treatm...

INTRODUCTION Organizational wellbeing in mental health services influences the outcomes of users and their families. Workers should be motivated, have a positive morale and be able to recognize values and the deep meaning of their work. This survey aims to examine the organizational wellbeing of the services provided by the Department of Mental Health (DSM) in Lanusei (Italy) and the correlatio...