BACKGROUND Measuring the impacts of oral conditions on quality of life is an important part of oral health needs assessment. For this purpose a variety of oral health-related quality of life instruments have been developed. To use a scale in a new context or with a different groups of people, it is necessary to re-establish its psychometric properties. The objectives of this study are to develo...

one of the most important factors in development of rural is sustainable housing and in this regard identifying of features and analysis of dimensions and different components of sustainable rural housing have special importance .the aim of this study is analysis and assessment of the indicators and dimensions of sustainable rural housing that the case study has been in malavi rural district of...

PURPOSE To validate a Stigma Scale of Epilepsy (SSE). METHODS The SSE was completed by 40 adult with epilepsy attending an Outpatient Epilepsy Clinic at the University Hospital of UNICAMP, and by 40 people from the community. People were interviewed on an individual basis; a psychologist read the questions to the subjects who wrote the answers in a sheet. The procedure was the same for all th...

BACKGROUND The Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-Lung (FACT-L) questionnaire, which consists of a core questionnaire (the General Measure of FACT [FACT-G]) and a 9-item Additional Concerns comprised of a 7-item Lung Cancer Subscale (LCS), was developed in an English-speaking culture. The validation of the Japanese FACT-G was reported previously, and this report describes the cross-cultura...

BACKGROUND:According to the literature, Greek questionnaire on study of quality life children and adolescents undergoing brace treatment (BRACE questionnaire, abbreviated as BrQ) is informative reliable, which confirmed by its validation in different countries. This necessitates creation ofanadopted Russian version validation.
 AIM:To perform localization treatment.
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the aim of present study was to comparison men with social capital are so important for organizations and they are considered as rare assets. the significance of factors effecting social capital is increased day by day. organizational justice can be one of these factors. so, the aim of the current study was to investigate the effect of perceived organizational justice on the social capital leve...

The meta-analysis of coefficient alpha across many studies is becoming more common in psychology by a methodology labeled reliability generalization. Existing reliability generalization studies have not used the sampling distribution of coefficient alpha for precision weighting and other common meta-analytic procedures. A framework is provided for a statistically grounded meta-analysis of coeff...

Introduction: This study was done to assess the knowledge and health behaviour regarding osteoporosis in khandagiribari. And find out association between with selected socio- demographic variables. Methods material: quantitative experimental approach non randomized control group design adopted. 200 people were by purposive sampling technique, who met inclusion criteria . Self structured intervi...