background and objectives: spiritual intelligence makes a major contribution to people’s health and well-being. since religion is considered as an enriched context for muslim communities, which can provide them with spiritual experiences, the aim of this study was to develop and validate a questionnaire in order to assess spiritual intelligence among people in these communities. methods: in thi...

OBJECTIVES This article details the reduction of the Child and Youth Resilience Measure (CYRM) from a 28-item to a 12-item measure. The CYRM-28 is a measure of youth resilience that accounts for cultural and contextual diversity across youth populations. A reduced version of the CYRM is better suited to inclusion in omnibus surveys. METHODS Data from two samples of youth from Atlantic Canada ...

background: increasing prevalence of obesity is a major health concern. lifestyle behaviors and diet play an important role in developing childhood obesity. the aim of this study was to determine the association between major dietary patterns and overweight/obesity in a group of iranian school‑aged children. methods: this cross‑sectional study was conducted in isfahan, iran with 637 elementary ...

in developing countries, the domination of peripheral and dependent capitalism relations and the lack of appropriate structures and channels of attracting, this system have caused some kind of spatial-anatomic unbalances that has resulted in the appearance of single cities with national and regional prevalence. this situation is the main reason for small, medium and intermediate cities to lose ...

four rapeseed cultivars (hayola 401, hayola 308, rgs and option) were evaluated for some physiological traits under stress (50 % field capacity (fc) and non-stress (irrigated) conditions. the factorial set of treatments was arranged within a randomized complete block design with three replications. the collected data were analyzed using path and factor analyses. these is results showed that bas...

BACKGROUND The process of recovery is gaining more and more attention within health care for patients with severe mental illness. Therefore, instruments to measure recovery can be useful for clinical and research purposes. AIMS This study evaluates the psychometric properties of three instruments pertaining to recovery for possible application in the Netherlands. The Recovery Attitude Questio...