... generation in the development of
two obesity-specific measures: the Obesity and Weight Loss Quality of
Life (OWLQOL) Questionnaire and the Weight -Related Symptom
Measure (WRSM). Clin Ther 2002, ... compliance.
Conclusion
The development and validation o f the Treatment
Related Impact Measure- Weight (TRIM -Weight) has
been conducted according to well...
... the
Rasch analyses) were candidates for exclusion. However,
it was the aim to include a reasonable spread of items in
terms of the degree of severity they represented. The logit
severity of the ... note that in the
development of the EQ-5D the state of perfect health was
not valued and was assumed to be 1 [19]. This anchoring
meant that in the PH validation...
... a group of 15
RTR, members of the national association of End-Stage
Renal Disease patients. The group confirmed the perti-
nence of the five dimensions, and the relevance of the
items. The dimension ... time
Most of time
A good bit of the time
Some of the time
A little of the time
None of time
35 Is taking medications a constraint for you?
36 Are you...
... conceptualisation and design of
the original web-based survey. FJS, SES and FP assessed
the quality of the data collected and participated in the
design of the validation study and the development of the
statistical ... removed, and the topic of weight
gain is generally acknowledged as one of the important
barriers in the current treatment of...
... that the concepts they measure are related but
distinct.
The factor analysis reveals four distinct factors of the WE-
CARE. One encompasses an array of psychosocial ele-
ments, and the other ... with the impact of the
child's health on parent's time and emotions and on the
family, as measured by the CHQ-PF50. Because both the
psychosocial domain...
... studies
reliably.
Another relevant issue regarding the findings of the AAQ
validation is the construct similarity between the interna-
tional sample and the Brazilian one. The three factors pro-
posed by the ... Comparisons
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Development and...
... as
validity measures for the EDSIS as they assess general
aspects of caregiving and psychological morbidity. The
analyses in the validation described below was used the
final version of EDSIS.
The development ... sub-
scale scores of the final version of the EDSIS and the gen-
eral aspects of caregiving (ECI), psychological distress
(GHQ-12) and the globa...
... indicate the location of
the pain on eight diagrams of the feet. The participants
then completed the Greek language version of the MFPDI.
A total score for the MFPDI was obtained according to the
following ... plate, and the angle formed
between the lateral malleolus and the fibular head was
measured. The test was completed three times, and the
average sc...
... constituted
of two-thirds of the UK clinical trial subjects. The scale
structure was then validated in the remaining one-third of
the "UK validation population", to assess the robustness of
the ... instruments
that assess the importance and the acceptability of ISR to
subjects and the impact of these on subjects' daily life, as
well as the...
... cells
[16-18]. The activities of IL21 have been shown to be
highly dependent on the lineage of the target cell, the
activation state of the target cell and the presence of other
co-stimulators and immune ... drafting of the
manuscript. DY co-led the Ab-01 team and was responsible for studies related
to the characterization of the biological properties...