Introduction: The functioning of patients with chronic disease is inseparably connected the understanding essence disease, acceptance and taking measures leading to achieving best possible treatment results. Aim study: aim study was evaluate influence patients’ knowledge on their in coronary artery which assessed aid tool ‘The Functioning Chronic Illness Scale’ (FCIS). Materials methods: A sing...

BACKGROUND The aim of the RCT study was to investigate if the effect of a multidisciplinary intervention on return to work (RTW) and health care utilization differed by participants' self-reported health status at baseline, defined by a) level of somatic symptoms, b) health anxiety and c) self-reported general health. METHODS A total of 443 individuals were randomized to the intervention (n =...

the aim of the current research is to investigate relationship between domineering behavior of male and female teachers and rating of their performance and likeability by school managers. the sample consists of 79 school teachers and 79 school managers (including men and women). instruments used are wiggins(1995) interpersonal adjective scale, wayne & liden (1995) teachers performance assessmen...

backgrounds: the purpose of this study is to evaluate the effect of acceptance and commitment therapy for children with chronic pain (chact) on quality of life of 7 to 12 year-old children. thus, the basic problem of the current study is whether chact can increase the quality of life on 7 to 12 year-old children with chronic pain?   materials and methods: according to the criteria of chronic pa...

according to importance of cirrhosis of the liver and the lack of information about the economic burden of the disease, we performed this study to estimate the economic burden of liver cirrhosis in iran in 2011.the cost-of-illness method, based on the human capital theory, has been used. both direct and indirect costs have been estimated using a prevalence approach and bottom-up method. the inp...

objectives: psychiatric stigma refers to systemic and internalized stereotypical negative attitudes against individual with mental illness. this article describes the level of self stigma, stereotype endorsement and perceived discrimination experienced by patients with bipolar-i disorder in tehran. methods: data were collected from a total of 126 patients with bipolar-i disorder who responded t...