BACKGROUND This study aimed to (1) provide a comprehensive characterization of depressive symptoms profiles, and (2) examine the cross-sectional association between depressive symptom profiles and cardio-metabolic outcomes, including metabolic syndrome and obesity, while controlling for sociodemographic variables, health behaviors and inflammation. METHODS Our sample was comprised of 1085 par...

this study examined the relation between religious faith and gratitude variables with the severity of mental disorders symptoms. participants were 300 students of shiraz university who were selected via cluster random sampling method. measures were islamic – iranian gratitude, religious faith, and scl-90 questionnaires. the data were analyzed using descriptive and multiple regression methods. t...

The long-term impact of acromegaly on subjective well-being after treatment of GH excess is unclear. Therefore, we evaluated quality of life by validated questionnaires in a cross-sectional study of 118 successfully treated acromegalic patients. The initial treatment was transsphenoidal surgery in most patients (92%), if necessary followed by radiotherapy or octreotide. All patients were in rem...

the main purpose of this research was to develop a persian version of the emotion regulation questionnaire (erq, gross & john, 2003) and to examine its factor structure, reliability and validity . the english version of the erq was translated and back-translated prior to its administration to 540 (260 females) iranian participants that ranged in age from 18 to 36. results showed that the persia...

BACKGROUND Psychometric properties of two measures of psychological well-being were evaluated for adults with growth hormone deficiency (GHD): the General Well-being Index, (GWBI)--British version of the Psychological General Well-being Index, and the 12-item Well-being Questionnaire (W-BQ12). METHODS Reliability, structure and other aspects of validity were investigated in a cross-sectional ...

PURPOSE To assess and validate the subscale structure of the 28-item Impact of Visual Impairment (IVI) Scale by using confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) and Rasch analysis for use as an outcome measure. METHODS Three hundred nineteen participants completed the IVI questionnaire, and the responses then were subjected to Rasch analysis by RUMM2020 software. With the person estimates for each it...

Continuous data input is essential for lifelogging services, where users their daily records. But whether the user can continuously depends mainly on user's motivation. This article presents a new method of introducing gamification in line with purpose lifelogging. The authors introduce comprehensive set features based motivation subscales into service. Meanwhile, elucidate which correspond to ...

The Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-Prostate (FACT-P) questionnaire is a relevant, worldwide tool used for assessing the health-related quality of life in men with prostate cancer. The purpose of this study was to translate the FACT-P into Korean, to assess its reliability and validity, and to test its discriminative ability between the cancer patients and normal controls. The Korean ve...

This study aimed to develop an Interpersonal Curiosity Scale. In Study 1, a questionnaire with preliminary pool of 56 items was administered undergraduates, and from these, 11items were selected. The main survey college students (n = 839) as web-based 1,500). Factor analysis revealed three factors: curiosity about personal emotions, privacy, attributes. Cronbachʼs alpha showed that these subsca...