Middle East Current Psychiatry 2011, 18:72–77 Introduction In Arab countries, epidemiological data about the ways of coping with general day stresses in schizophrenic patients and their quality of life are scarce. This study sought to determine whether there was a difference in ways of coping with stress and quality of life of schizophrenic patients attending the Baljurashi Psychiatric Hospital...

PURPOSE This article describes the development of the Ostomy Adjustment Inventory-23 (OAI-23), a self-report, multidimensional scale designed to assess psychosocial adjustment in patients with ostomy. SUBJECTS AND SETTING Five hundred seventy persons with a colostomy, ileostomy, or urostomy, who were randomly selected from 3 national databases, provided assessable data. RESULTS The results ...

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conclusions a substantial proportion of patients with urethritis sought help from other sources, rather than physicians. the results of our study show that the patients with higher levels of education were more likely to seek help from health care services. it is important to promote the public’s knowledge through informative studies and educational materials in order to encourage patients to s...