Abstract Introduction: Infertility has biological and psychological effects on various aspects of the infertile couple's life. Objective: This study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of integrated psychological counseling with a couple therapy approach on the quality of life of infertile women. Materials and Methods: This clinical trial was conducted on 60 couples (30 couples in the i...

© Translational Andrology and Urology. All rights reserved. Transl Androl Urol, 2016;5(S1) tau.amegroups.com Checklist (LSC) scores. Results: The extent of IPSS improvement from baseline to 12 weeks was the same in both groups (tadalafil+T –5.2 vs. tadalafil –5.0; P=0.634). Also, the changes in Q(max) and PVR from baseline were very similar in both groups. However, the tadalafil+T group showed ...

Introduction: Infertility is a very important medical and social problem that affects increasing number of couples. Taking into account the specifics problem, impact on partnership interactions, treatment infertility can have significant negative impacts quality life in women during in-vitrofertilization procedure (IVF). Main goal: To determine IVF process relation to general satisfaction, phys...

Objectives: Successful aging is an interdisciplinary concept. Despite the great body of literature on successful aging, few studies have focused on its subjective and multidimensional measurements. Thus, the present study aimed to develop an instrument to measure self-perceived successful aging. Methods: We used a mixed method approach. The successful aging dimensions were explored through an ...

BACKGROUND Beside traditional outcomes of safety and (cost-)effectiveness, the Institute of Medicine states patient-centeredness as an independent outcome indicator to evaluate the quality of healthcare. Providing patient-centered care is important because patients want to be heard for their ideas and concerns. Healthcare areas associated with high emotions and intensive treatment periods could...

objectives: the main purpose of this study is to produce an instrument for handwriting evaluation and to execute it on mentally retarded (mr) students. methods: this was a descriptive, cross-sectional, and relationship study. 126 mr students (53 girls and 73 boys) ranging from 9 to 19 years old (13.23±2.17) from two exceptional children schools in shahr-e-rey participated in this study. a handw...