the purpose of this study was to design a valid questionnaire to the iranian culture for dementia diagnosis and more specifically in its early stage.a cross-sectional study was conducted in 2012 in memory clinic of roozbeh hospital and iranian alzheimer association in tehran in 2012. among 235 subjects, there were 72 patients with alzheimer's disease (ad), 137 patients with other types of demen...

The focus of the study is on the assessment of readability for prevailing America and Chinese English textbooks with the measurement software and systems. The result indicated college reading textbooks produced by Chinese publishers seemed to vary in level, with some texts above the reading ability of most college students. Then simplification strategies used to make Chinese EFL reading texts m...

BACKGROUND In western societies, a shared decision-making model for doctor-patient relationships calling for open and collaborative communication is recommended. Research focuses mainly on the doctor's communication patterns, while research on patient communication patterns is rare. The purpose of this study was to develop a tool for evaluating patient's communication patterns - the Patient Com...

Introduction To evaluate the psychometric characteristics of the Beck Depression Inventory - Second Edition (BDI-II) with an ethnically diverse sample of college students. Methods The BDI-II was completed by a group of 502 college students (54% women) with an ethnic distribution of African-American (n=49, 10%), Asian-American (n=33, 7%), Hispanic (n=113, 22%), Native-American (n=10, 2%), and Wh...