Industry-wide, there is a trend toward making outcome evaluation a routine part of therapeutic services. Although various multidimensional assessments of outcome are valid and reliable, their methodological complexity, length of administration, and cost often render them infeasible for many service providers and settings. The present article describes the development and validation of an ultra-...

We propose a relative estimation method for subjective age, imaged by ourselves, using peoples’ facial images and their chronological (real) age. We experimented with a rating scale for facial images which stimulated subjects. The subject evaluated an image as looking older than themselves with a range of responses. Finding an approximation curve of this range, the zero crossing point in the ap...

Objective The study was conducted to determine the perceptions of nurses regarding spirituality and spiritual care. Design This descriptive‐type study was carried out in three hospitals in a province in the west of Turkey. The study’s population was made up of 733 nurses working in these hospitals and the sample consisted of 289 nurses who agreed to take part in the study. The data were collect...

objective: conners adult adhd rating scale (caars) is among the valid questionnaires for evaluating attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder in adults. the aim of this paper is to evaluate the validity of the estimation of missed answers in scoring the screening version of the conners questionnaire, and to extract its principal components. method: this study was performed on 400 participants. a...

abstract   background: osteoarthritis (oa) is the most common joint disease occuring after middle age. because of the high mobility of the neck, oa is common in the cervical spine. the purpose of this study was to determine and compare the effects of intermittent traction on patients with mild and moderate cervical oa. therefore, 32 patients with cervical oa were recruited.   methods: aclinical...

background : the purpose of this study was to determine reliability and construct validity of a persian version of the gastrointestinal symptoms rating scale (gsrs) in 2 samples of patients with functional gastrointestinal disorders (fgid) and healthy persons. materials and methods : the clinical sample consisted of 143 patients diagnosed with fgid who were referred to the psychosomatic disorde...

ôbjective: âttention deficit hyperactivity disorder (âdhd) is one of the most prevalent psychiatric disorders in children. âccording to concern regarding the growth of these children, this study was carried out to compare height and weight between 5-6-year-old boys with âdhd and those without âdhd in âhvaz, ïran methods: ïn this cross-sectional study, 32 5-6-year-old âdhd boys with the çonners’...

We examined the effect of sleep deprivation on self-motion perception (vection). We measured the strength of vection, its latency, and its duration in two conditions: Sleep-Deprivation and NormalSleep (by using the between-subject design). For the Sleep-Deprivation condition, participants did not sleep for about 20 hours. We also recorded subjective sleepiness with a subjective rating scale tha...