objectives: the purpose of this study was to determine the of physical functioning level and prevalence of chronic illness among elderlypeople in west region of tehran. methods & materials: this study was a descriptive and cross-sectional study. a multi-stage sampling was used and 410 community residents who were over 60 years old were selected from west region of tehran.descriptive statistics,...

The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5) has dropped the multiaxial diagnostic system and moved to a dimensional system of diagnostic classification. This change means that there is no longer a separate Axis V or specific diagnostic category for assessment of functioning. In addition, the Global Assessment of Functioning Scale (GAF), the previously endors...

The delineation of the interrelationships between cognitive and physical functioning in older adults is critical to determining pathways to disability. By using longitudinal data from 395 initially high-functioning, communitydwelling older women in Baltimore, Maryland, from the Women’s Health and Aging Study II (from 1994 to 2006), we simultaneously assessed associations of cognition with later...

Purpose: To explore the presence of subtypes of intellectual functioning in children with mild intellectual disability (ID) and to externally validate the subtypes on measures of academic, adaptive and psychosocial functioning. Method: Participants were 167 children age 6-16 years with a mild ID. All children completed the WISC-III, WIAT, VABS, and PIC-R. Results: Based on a two-stage cluster a...

AIMS To describe neurocognitive function among opioid-dependent adults seeking buprenorphine treatment and to explore the impact of lifetime psychiatric conditions on neurocognitive function. To explore the additive interaction of patient-based characteristics that may help to inform treatment. DESIGN Cross-sectional assessment of neurocognitive function, substance use, and psychiatric charac...

BACKGROUND New approaches to assess outcome in schizophrenia include multidimensional measures such as remission, cognition, psychosocial functioning, and quality of life. Clinical and psychosocial measures have been recently introduced to assess functional outcome. OBJECTIVE The study presented here was designed to examine the rates of symptomatic remission, psychosocial remission, global fu...