OBJECTIVE This study aimed to assess the association between perceived social support (PSS) and fatigue and the roles of hope, optimism, general self-efficacy and resilience as mediators or moderators on PSS-fatigue association among Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) patients in China. METHODS A multi-center, cross-sectional study was conducted withinpatients diagnosed with RA in northeast China, in ...

BACKGROUND Cochlear implants (CI) have become widely used for the management of profound sensorineural hearing loss. However, data relative to satisfaction in CI users are not so readily available. No standard outcome inventory for CI users has been developed. The Satisfaction with Amplification in Daily Life (SADL) inventory was originally developed for hearing aid users by Cox and Alexander (...

introduction: conflict is inevitable in intimate relationship in the form of disagreements, dislikes, arguments and tensions. it may result in the renovation if handled properly or deterioration of relationship if managed poorly. the aim of this descriptive- correlation study was to investigate the effects of marital coping strategies, personality and self-control on the marital conflict in a p...

the aim of present research was to investigate psychometric properties (reliability ,validity and factor analysis) of children depression inventory (kovacs,1981) in boy and girl students of junior high schools in ahvaz. 399 boy and girl students were randomly selected by multi-stage sampling. the results of factor analysis extracted six factors. among those, the greatest proportion of variance ...

Background Transitioning from pediatric to adult healthcare can be challenging and lead severe consequences if done suboptimally. The Transition Readiness Assessment Questionnaire (TRAQ) was developed assess adolescent young (AYA) patients' transition readiness. In this study, we aimed (1) document the psychometric properties of French-language version TRAQ (TRAQ-FR), (2) agreements discrepanci...

The present study tests the relationships between the three frequently used personality models evaluated by the Temperament Character Inventory-Revised (TCI-R), Neuroticism Extraversion Openness Five Factor Inventory - Revised (NEO-FFI-R) and Zuckerman-Kuhlman Personality Questionnaire-50- Cross-Cultural (ZKPQ-50-CC). The results were obtained with a sample of 928 volunteer subjects from the ge...

Athletes' coping strategies are important factors that contribute to competitive achievement and psychological well-being. The first aim of the current study was explore direct interactive effects Five Factor personality dimensions on dispositional strategies. second test second-order factorial structure Dispositional Coping Inventory for Competitive Sport (DCICS). sample included 166 female vo...

BACKGROUND The EQ-5D is a brief, generic measure of health status that can be easily incorporated into population health surveys. There are two versions of the EQ-5D for use in adult populations, one with 3 response levels in each of the instrument's 5 dimensions (EQ-5D-3L) and one with 5 levels in each dimension (EQ-5D-5L). We compared the two versions as measures of self-reported health statu...