UNLABELLED Aims/Introduction:  The objective of this study was to translate and validate an Iranian version of the Diabetes Quality of Life (DQOL) questionnaire in an Iranian population of males and females with a diagnosis of type 2 diabetes. MATERIALS AND METHODS   A total of 503 patients with type 2 diabetes were recruited from nine diabetes clinics across several Iranian cities. A standar...

background: osteoarthritis of the knee is the most common chronic joint disease that involves middle aged and elderly persons. there are different clinical instruments to quantify the health status of patients with knee osteoarthritis and one example is the womac score that has been translated and adapted into different languages. the purpose of this study was cultural adaptation, validation an...

BACKGROUND Patient empowerment can enhance the outcomes of care such as metabolic control as well as quality of their life. This study evaluates the Iranian version for development of a valid and reliable diabetes empowerment scale. METHODS Validity and reliability of Iranian version of Diabetes Empowerment Scale (DES-LF) were measured through a cross-sectional study. DES-LF was evaluated thr...

BACKGROUND The WHOQOL-BREF is one of the best-known instruments that have been developed for cross-cultural comparisons of quality of life and currently it is available in more than 40 languages. Current study was done to provide: (1) the psychometrics properties of the Iranian version of WHOQOL-BREF and (2) the norm scores for satisfaction with life overall and satisfaction with specific Life ...

PRIMARY OBJECTIVE To compare the scores from the Iranian version of the Frontal Systems Behavioral Scale (FSBS) with the norms collected for the American, English-speaking population and to examine the ability of the FSBS to discriminate between acquired brain injury and addiction. RESEARCH DESIGN Multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) and post hoc Bonferroni tests. METHODS AND PROCEDUR...

OBJECTIVE The Geriatric Anxiety Scale (GAS) is a new self-report screening measure designed for older adults. Due to the burgeoning Iranian population of older adults and the need for validated, culturally-appropriate screening measures for anxiety in Iran, the purposes of the present study were to translate the GAS into Persian and to explore its preliminary psychometric properties. METHOD I...

BACKGROUND The Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) is a widely used instrument to measure psychological morbidity in cancer patients. This study aimed to translate and test the reliability and validity of the Iranian version of the HADS. METHODS The English language version of the HADS was translated into Persian (Iranian language) and was used in this study. The questionnaire was ad...

BACKGROUND: Emotional processing scale (EPS) is a fundamental test for measurement of the abnormal emotion and psychosomatic disorders in psychotherapy sessions. Despite its importance, EPS has not been yet translated validated Iranian population. AIM: To fill this gap, study aims to adapt examined psychometric properties five Using cluster sampling, we selected 1283 university students. METHOD...