Designing and validating of a questionnaire measuring perceived self-care ability (PSCA) in chronic stroke patients at home.

Background: Patients with a stroke often cannot care for themselves after hospital discharge. Assessment of their self-care ability is the first step in planning post-discharge home care. This study aimed to design and validate a measure of perceived self-care ability (PSCA) in stroke patients.

Stress level and quality of life of adolescents with idiopathic scoliosis during brace treatment.

Objectives: This study aimed to evaluate the effect of brace treatment on the stress level and quality of life (QoL) of adolescents with idiopathic scoliosis.

Patients And Methods: A total of 194 adolescent individuals were evaluated in two groups: the adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) group with 97 patients (20 males, 77 females; mean age: 13.9±1.

Complex Disease Genes Identification Using a Heterogeneous Network Embedding Approach.

Finding the causal relation between a gene and a disease using experimental approaches is a time-consuming and expensive task. However, computational approaches are cost-efficient methods for identifying candidate genes. This article proposes a new heterogeneous biological network embedding approach, named NetEM, to identify disease-associated genes.

An information theoretic approach to link prediction in multiplex networks.

The entities of real-world networks are connected via different types of connections (i.e., layers).

Validation of the Persian version of the Compassionate Care Assessment Tool.

Objectives: The present study aimed to translate and determine the psychometric properties of the Persian version of the Compassionate Care Assessment Tool (CCAT) ©.

Methods: The study was carried out to translate and validate of the CCAT©. After securing permission from the designer of the tool and translating it, the psychometric properties were determined through examining face validity, construct validity, internal consistency, and test/retest reliability.