The World Health Organization has estimated that 450 million individuals live with mental disorders worldwide. In the last few years, a growing interest in research on quality of life chronically ill people could be observed. Further generates new concepts and specific tools to measure life. Quality can assessed using both generic questionnaires. This allows for obtaining quantitative result, w...

Background: Spiritual well-being is an important issue in health sciences, hence the need for validated instruments to assess this aspect of health in the Iranian population. The aim of the current study was to determine the validity of the Persian versions of 2 most common measures of spiritual health (Spiritual Well-Being Questionnaire [SWBQ] or Spiritual Health and Life-Orientation Measure [...

Questionnaires are often used to examine people’s attitudes, beliefs and behaviours in language learning and teaching. The data we get from questionnaire research can be especially insightful and satisfying when patterns emerge from a large number of respondents, when apparent differences or similarities are found among groups, or when relationships are ascertained among variables. As researche...