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The aim of this study was to compare the effect of treatment with lamotrigine (LTG) or carbamazepine (CBZ) on health-related quality of life (HRQOL) and to demonstrate the use of the SEALS Inventory as a comparative tool in clinical trials. Two hundred and sixty patients with newly diagnosed epilepsy were randomized to 48 weeks of treatment with LTG (n = 131) or CBZ (n = 129). HRQOL was measure...

Personality and temperament embrace a wide area of both psychological and behavioral processes which are also based on disposition. A functional polymorphism in exon III of the dopamine D4 receptor gene (DRD4) has been a highly suspect genetic marker for personality in spite of ambiguous results. The present study aimed to further elucidate the relationship between DRD4, negative life events an...

Aim: The aim of this study is to examine adults’ coping with risks and losses experienced during the COVID-19 pandemic, taking into account: anxiety level, gender, age place residence.
 Method: For purpose, research was carried out on a total 235 adults, divided five groups based Levinson's (1978) model life development, recruited using snowball technique via remote communication technolog...

BACKGROUND People with hemophilia (PWH) experience frequent joint bleeding, resulting in pain and functional impairment. Generic and disease-specific patient-reported outcome (PRO) instruments have been used in clinical studies, but rarely in the comprehensive hemophilia care setting. OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to assess construct validity of PRO instruments measuring pain, fun...

UNLABELLED Numerous studies show that changes occurring in a woman's organism during menopause may lower her quality of life. This study involved 630 healthy postmenopausal women from Poland. Its purpose was to assess their quality of life in relation to socio-demographic variables, medical data and personality profiles. The authors used the Short Form Health Survey (SF-36) to assess quality of...

INTRODUCTION The difficulty in choosing the appropriate therapy for chronic tinnitus relates to the variable impact on the quality of life of affected patients and, thus, requires individualization of treatment. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effectiveness of using sound generators with individual adjustments to relieve tinnitus in patients unresponsive to previous treatments. METHODS A prospect...

Some studies have associated Parkinson’s disease with specific personality traits. We aimed to analyze profiles in based on the Five- Factor Model, using following 3 instruments as parameters: NEO Personality Inventory, revised and Five-Factor Inventory. A systematic review was conducted according Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews Meta-Analyses. The PsycINFO, PubMed, Scopus, Web ...

the main purpose of this research was 10 study the relationship between attachment styles (secure. avoidant, ambivalent) and personality dimensions (neuroticism. extraversion, openness, agreeableness. consciousness) . two hundred and thirty three students ( 102 male. 131 female ) from the university of tehran participated in this study . adult attachment inventory (aai) was applied for measurin...

The purpose of this study is to construct and standardize the Five Factor Personality Inventory for Children (FFPC). Fifty items were chosen through two preliminary surveys. Then the 50-item questionnaire was administered to 3,386 primary school children. Based on the results of principal component analysis, 40 items were selected for the FFPC final version. The mean scores, standard deviations...