BACKGROUND The objective of this article is to describe the design of a study to evaluate the clinical and economic effects of a Disease Management model on functional health, quality of care and quality of life of persons living in homes for the elderly. METHODS This study concerns a cluster randomized controlled clinical trial among five intervention homes and five usual care homes in the N...

Over the past 30 years, studies have shown that survivors of community-wide disasters suffer from a variety of physical and mental health problems. Researchers also have documented increased substance use in the aftermath of these disasters. In the present study, we examined the relationship between alcohol use and mental health status within the context of the terrorist attacks on the World Tr...

AIM To compare prognosis for patients with a diagnosis of angina alone to patients postacute myocardial infarction (AMI) and/or revascularisation and/or angina. DESIGN Community-based retrospective cohort study. SETTING A random selection of 37 Irish general practices. PARTICIPANTS 1,609 adults with ischaemic heart disease (IHD) identified in 2000/1. INTERVENTION Medical records searche...

Background and Aims: In Bangladesh, a significant number of individuals experienced faux coronavirus test, especially at the profit oriented private hospitals or clinics during COVID-19 emergency. Therefore, prime purpose study was to investigate impact healthcare service pas on mental health Bangladeshi people pandemic. Additionally, current even explored changes in life satisfaction due SARS-...

INTRODUCTION AIMS to measure the association between Celiac Disease (CD) and affective disorders, particularly Bipolar Disorder (BD), since it has not been studied yet, and to measure how much the quality of life (QoL) of a person with CD is affected by comorbidity with these disorders. METHODS DESIGN Case-control study. CASES 60 consecutive patients with CD. CONTROLS 240 subjects w...

BACKGROUND The WHOQOL-OLD is an instrument for the assessment of subjective quality of life in elderly people. It is based on the WHO definition of quality of life and is available in more than 20 languages. However, in most countries, the psychometric properties of the WHOQOL-OLD have been assessed only on the basis of small local samples and not in representative studies. In this study, the p...

To cite this paper: Zamani, S.N. and Hajializadeh, K. (2015). Studying Effect of Instructing Spiritual Intelligence on Life Quality and Psychological Well-being in Patients with Multiple Sclerosis. South journal of Educational Psychology and Counseling, 2, 1, 28-36. Abstract: Purpose and Background: Multiple Sclerosis is a chronic disease and causes to deterioration of central nervous cells. Of...

A substantial burden is placed on family caregivers of patients diagnosed with brain cancers. Despite this, the support needs of the caregivers are often under-recognised and not addressed adequately in current routine and patient centred clinical care. The Carer Support Needs Assessment Tool (CSNAT) is a validated instrument designed to systematically identify and address caregiver needs [corr...

Suppression of aberrant DNA methylation is a novel approach to cancer prevention, but, so far, the efficacy of the strategy has not been evaluated in cancers associated with chronic inflammation. Gastric cancers induced by Helicobacter pylori infection are known to involve aberrant DNA methylation and associated with severe chronic inflammation in their early stages. Here, we aimed to clarify w...