the main of this research was to investigate the effect of a psychological training program on mental health of elite basketball players. this research was semi–experimental with pretest posttest and a control group. the population consisted of all basketball players from iran basketball super league (n=150). they were divided into two teams: experimental and control group. minnesota multiphasi...

the purpose of present research is to compare abuse. mental health and religious orientation in runaway and normal girls .the sample group of the research involves 25 runaway girls aged 17-25 that are being protected in the shelters for runaway girls. and 25 normal girls with the same qualities that were selected from a park in the southern part of tehran • as comparison group. in order to asse...

BACKGROUND The emerging literature on HIV/AIDS and mental health in sub-Saharan Africa stresses that HIV-positive status is significantly related to mental illness. However, the literature has neglected an equally important concern in contexts where HIV is highly prevalent, namely, whether and how an HIV/AIDS epidemic affects the mental well-being of individuals in the general population, regar...

Disruptive Behavior Disorders (DBDs) are among the most common reasons for youth referrals to mental health clinics. Aim of this study is to compare short and medium term efficacy of a multimodal treatment program (MTP), compared to community care (treatment-as-usual, TAU). The sample included 135 youths with DBDs (113 males, age range 9-15 years, mean age 12±2.5 years) were assigned either to ...

BACKGROUND Efficient neuropsychological tests are needed to measure cognitive impairment in moderate to severe dementia. OBJECTIVE To examine construct validity of the Severe Impairment Battery Short Version (SIB-S) in nursing home patients with moderate to severe dementia, and to examine potential floor effects for the SIB-S. METHODS Cross-sectional comparison of cognitive measures, dement...

A broad class of parallel server systems is considered, for which we prove the steady-state asymptotic independence workloads, as number servers goes to infinity, while system load remains sub-critical. Arriving jobs consist multiple components. There are job classes, and each may be one two types, determines rule according components add workloads servers. The model enough include special case...

It is time to abandon the Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS). As discussed below, this ubiquitous neurologic scoring system is confusing, unreliable, and unnecessarily complex, and its manner of common clinical use is statistically unsound. Teasdale and Jennett devised the GCS in 1974 not for acute care, but rather for the “repeated bedside assessment” in a neurosurgical unit to detect “changing states” ...