objective: the three-factor eating questionnaire reduced (tfeq-r18) is one of the most widely used instruments for assessing eating behavior worldwide. the present study aimed at confirming the reliability and validity of the persian version of tfeq-r18 among overweight and obese females in iran. material and methods: in the present study, 168 overweight and obese females consented to participa...

background: snap-iv rating scale developed by swanson, nolan and pelham to diagnose attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (adhd). the aim of this study was determination of psychometrics specifications of this scale. methods: this was a methodological, applied and validity assessment study. one thousand students at 7 to 12 years of age in primary school in tehran city were selected by cluste...

Although early antidepressant clinical trials simply relied on a clinician's judgment as to whether a depressed patient clinically improved or not, the Hamilton Depression (HAM-D) rating scale has become the 'gold standard' to assess the efficacy of new antidepressants. The alternative Montgomery-Asberg Depression Rating Scale (MADRS) has not achieved general acceptance. However, its ease of us...

objectives: liver cirrhosis can change many aspects of life of the patients and their family and effects society. we aimed to study the utility of cirrhosis from the point of view of the patients, their family, and their care takers to find appropriate interventions, and training and counselling programmes to support patients. methods: in this cross-sectional study with a goal-based sampling me...

The Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression (often abbreviated to HRSD, HDRS or Ham-D) was written in the late 1950s by Max Hamilton, a psychiatrist at Leeds University and originally designed to evaluate the performance of the first group of antidepressants [1]. The scale is still widely used to measure the effectiveness of antidepressant medication in clinical trials. For more than 40 years, it ...