objective: the purpose of this study was to examine the role of social support on the mental health of disabled war veterans alongside the role of physical disability and deployment type. the second aim of the study was to examine the relationship between coping strategies and mental health. method: 85 disabled iranian war veterans participated in this study. all of the participants were asked ...

abstract aim and background: multiple sclerosis (ms) is a progressive disease and can extremely affect on body esteem at patients and changes obviously emotions and attitudes with body in patients. based on this study was to examine body esteem in patients with ms. methods and materials: this research study was descriptive, 395 patients of the ms society in tehran in 2012 were selected by conve...

Background: Applying “Roy Adaptation Model" in caring of patients with diabetes needs a context based planning using the principles of this model. But no study has been done up to now in Iranian nursing context Aim: To examine the effect of employing a care plan based on the Roy Adaptation Model on psychological adaptation in patient with type II diabetes. Methods: This clinical trial was perfo...

objective : poor premorbid adjustment has been reported to be a predictor of more severe psychotic symptoms and poor quality of life in such psychotic disorders  as  schizophrenia.  however,  most  studies  were  performed  on chronic schizophrenic patients, and proposed the likelihood of recall biases and the effect of chronicity.  the aim of this study was to investigate these factors in a sa...

BACKGROUND Defense Force workers engaged in disaster relief activities might suffer from strong psychological stress due to the tasks that they had been involved. We evaluated how living environments, work environments, and individual factors psychologically affect those who engaged in disaster relief activities. METHOD Data generated with 1506 personnel engaged in the Great East Japan Earthq...