abstract background: hope is the most important factor in diabetic patients’ life. the level of hope may be changing among these individuals as a result of chronic nature of diabetes and its complications. when the level of hope increases among these patients, they can resist against physical and psychological complications of diabetes more, accept the treatment better, enjoy life more, and ada...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to determine whether it is possible to predict quality of life in patients with colorectal cancer on the basis of personality dimensions from the Five-factor model. SUBJECTS AND METHODS The study included 56 patients with colorectal cancer (40 men and 16 women), aged 48-87. The following instruments were used: the Questionnaire on General Information and L...

The Spiritual Assessment Inventory (SAI) is a relationally-based measure designed to assess two dimensions of spiritual development: Awareness of God and Quality of Relationship with God. The present article reports the results of two studies: exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses of a revised SAI, which replicated five factors, and a factor analysis of a revised SAI with a new Impressio...

This study examines to what extent personality and existential constructs predict the frequency of reminiscence, in general, and its various functions, in particular. Eighty-nine older adults completed the NEO-Five Factor Inventory, the Life Attitude Profile--Revised, and the Reminiscence Functions Scale. Neuroticism predicted total reminiscence frequency, as well as reminiscence for self-under...

Quality palliative care depends on a deep understanding of distress facing patients nearing death. Yet, many aspects of psychosocial, existential and spiritual distress are often overlooked. The aim of this study was to test a novel psychometric--the Patient Dignity Inventory (PDI)--designed to measure various sources of dignity-related distress among patients nearing the end of life. Using sta...

article history: received date: 13 september, 2016 review date: 2 october 2016 accepted date:20 november 2016 printed on line: 5 january purpose: the present study was done to introduce an efficient tool in the field of moral behavior. material & method: method of the study was correlational, its approach was test developing and its population was students of islamic azad university- astara and...

OBJECTIVE To extend development of a pediatric inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) health-related quality of life (HRQoL) measure by determining its factor structure and associations of factors with generic HRQoL measures and clinical variables. PATIENTS AND METHODS Cross-sectional survey of children and adolescents ages 8 years to 18 years and their parents attending any of 6 US IBD centers, re...

background: in its constitution of 1948, who defined health as “a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease and infirmity” . in 1994, the agency for health care policy and research published clinical practice guidelines recommending providers to routinely evaluate patients’ hrqol (health related quality of life) and use their assessment to ...

purpose: the purpose of present research was to determine the effectiveness of life skills training on personality clinical symptom of sexual abuse victims method: this research is a semi-experimental study which was performed by pre-test, post-test, follow-up design with control group. participants were selected through the screening method which comprised 30 female clients over 18 years, low ...