—The Need For Humor (NFH) scale measures the tendency to produce and seek out humor. This personality trait affects the processing and recall of humorous material. This study is a transcultural adaptation and validation of the NFH scale with French participants, including 100 university students (Study 1a) and 160 school-aged children (Study 1b). Results from iterative exploratory analyses and ...

The different options available to patients in the health environment now are implicated in increasingly difficult processes of decision-making, and may trigger conflict about them. This study had as its purpose, to develop an instrument that enabled us to know about this variable. Therefore, we decided to effect a transcultural adaptation and evaluation of psychometric properties of the Portug...

Mindfulness meditation and other techniques drawn from Buddhism have increasingly been integrated into forms of psychotherapeutic intervention. In much of this work, mindfulness is understood as a mode of awareness that is present-centered and nonevaluative. This form of awareness is assumed to have intrinsic value in promoting positive mental health and adaptation by interrupting discursive th...

IntroductionAmong Diabetes Mellitus (DM) patients, Diabetic Foot Ulcer (DFU) is the most prevalent complication that affects patients' quality of life (QoL). The present study aims to translate, validate, and test reliability Scale-Short Form (DFS-SF) in Malayalam language.MethodologyThe DFS-SF questionnaire was translated language using Mapi Research Trust translation guidelines. content valid...

Dr.Andreas Charalambous, Member of the Transcultural Centre of Middlesex University Special Scientific Personnel at Cyprus University of Technology DiplGN, BSc, MSc, PGCERT, PhD (Oncology Nursing) Professor (I) Rena Papadopoulos, PhD, MA, BA, DipNEd, DipN, RN, RM, NDNCert Head of Research Centre for Transcultural Studies in Health, Chair, School Ethics Committee, Editor-in-Chief Journal of Heal...

ABSTRACT Objective: The Back Pain Functional Scale (BPFS) was designed to evaluate the functional state of individuals with low back pain. scale consists twelve items, covering aspects daily life activities these individuals. final score is calculated by summing responses each item, values which range from 0 5, obtaining a total result 60 points. Methods: validation process developed in accorda...