Introduction: This research aimed to design and validate the education model of philosophy of life for students of Shiraz University of Medical Sciences from the point of view of professors. Method: This qualitative research was performed on eight university professors selected through the purposeful sampling method. In the qualitative section, a semi-structured interview tool was used to coll...

Via a large scale cross-sectional study among Japanese white color workers, the authors aimed to elucidate: (1) the distributions of Sense of Coherence (SOC), which reflect stress coping abilities, (2) the distributions of Life experience; (3) and the association between SOC and Life experience. Anonymous self-administered questionnaires were sent to 15,891 in 2001 and 21,922 in 2011 employees ...

background: breast cancer is the most common type of cancer and second leading cause of death in women after lung cancer. the world health organization has reported that breast cancer, with 502,000 deaths in 2005, surpassed lung, stomach, colorectal, and cervical cancers as the leading cause of death in women. the main objective of the current study was to examine the predictive role of emotion...

introduction: quality of life is defined as the sense of well-being and satisfaction with daily performances influenced by dental and oral conditions. oral diseases are very common and have impacts on different aspects of individual's life and can change their performances. in other word, they can change the quality of life. the real impact of health and disease on daily performances is conside...