background: in order to use international prostate symptom score (ipss) in the iranian population, a valid and reliable persian version of this questionnaire is required. to date, this version of ipss with those characteristics is not available. material and methods: for evaluation of the validity, the original version of ipss (english version) was translated into persian and after 3 weeks was ...

Background: According to the Wagnild model, resilience as an initial trait is critical in overcoming challenges and protecting wellbeing. Objectives: This study aimed investigate psychometric properties cultural adaptation of Persian version Resilience Scale (RS), including validity, reliability, factor analysis adolescent population. Methods: The scale was translated adapted using a standard m...

Objectives. Considering the influence of different motor and nonmotor features of Parkinson's disease (PD), it is important to evaluate the psychosocial functioning of the patients. For this purpose, the scales for outcomes in Parkinson's disease-psychosocial questionnaire (SCOPA-PS) has been previously designed. The aim of our study was to assess the cross-cultural validation and psychometric ...

OBJECTIVE To assess the perceived HIV/AIDS related stigma a comprehensive and well developed stigma instrument is necessary. This study aimed to assess validity and reliability of the Persian version of HIV/AIDS related stigma scale which was developed by Kang et al for people living with HIV/AIDS in Iran. MATERIALS AND METHODS Thescale was forward translatedby two bilingual academic members ...

BACKGROUND Restoring sleep is associated with a broad variety of favorable cognitive, emotional, social and behavioral benefits during the day. This holds particularly true for adolescents, as maturational, social, cognitive, emotional and behavioral changes might unfavorably impact on adolescents' sleep. Among adolescents, poor sleep hygiene practices are a potentially modifiable risk factor t...

conclusions our study showed that the persian version of yiat is good and usable on iranian people. the reliability of the instrument was very good. moreover, the validity of the persian translated version of the scale was sufficient. in addition, the reliability and validity of the three extracted factors of yiat were evaluated and were acceptable. results the cronbach’s alpha was 0.917 (ci 95...