patients and methods the study was performed with the participation of 172 cancer patients aged 18 and over. factor analysis (principal components analysis) was used to assess construct validity. criterion validities were tested by computing spearman correlation between candi and hospital anxiety depression scale (hads), and brief symptom inventory (bsi) (convergent validity) and quality of lif...

background: nowadays, infertility problems have become a social concern, and are associated with multiple psychological and social problems. also, it affects the interpersonal communication between the individual, familial, and social characteristics. since women are exposed to stressors of physical, mental, social factors, and treatment of infertility, providing a psychometric screening tool i...

this study compared the effects of neurofeedback and physical practices on performance and retention of dart throwing skill. 24 subjects were selected by convenience sampling method from female physical education students of urmia university who were all right-handed with no history of neurofeedback training and dart throwing. they were divided to three groups: physical practice, neurofeedback ...

conclusions this study provided evidence regarding the reliability and validity of the iranian male adolescent outcome expectation about leisure time physical activity (imao-pac) and illustrated that this new questionnaire can be used to measure the perceived exercise benefits among target group in observational and interventional studies. background outcome expectation (oe) is known as a psych...

abstract   introduction: one of the most common behavioral problems in children with intellectual disability is physical aggression. physical aggression is described as behaviors such as hitting, kicking, throwing object and threatening with the intent to harm others. physical aggression is related to the different factors such as language skills, which has been examined among intellectually di...

OBJECTIVE To develop and test the utility of a domain-specific physical activity efficacy scale in adolescents for predicting physical activity behaviour. DESIGN Two independent studies were conducted. Study 1 examined the psychometric properties of a newly constructed Domain-Specific Physical Activity Efficacy Questionnaire (DSPAEQ) and study 2 tested the utility of the scale for predicting ...

WE usE FIRE to accomplish many goals. Most of our use is based on long years of experience-experience that enables us to predict the results we should obtain from the "feel" of the situation. Research is being conducted, to assist less experienced land managers to understand fire more completely and to provide means for them to predict its effects in given situations. We must better learn to un...