... would force us to specify a fixed rating- scale granularity in advance Instead, we examined people’s ability to discern relative differences, because by varying the rating differences represented ... positive-sentence percentage Incorporating this new measure within the metriclabeling framework is shown to often provide significant improvements over the other algorithms Rating diff or more (e.g., star) ... Human accuracy at determining relative positivity Rating differences are given in “notches” Parentheses enclose the number of pairs attempted ratings not entirely supported by the text For data,...
... explore a scale involving these six items.6 Analyses using Items DEFGIJ Four scales using these items were evaluated: a six-item insomnia ratingscale labeled “IRS6” (Items DEFGIJ); a five-item scale, ... J was an indication that the item could be dropped from the scale. 8 EFA of the IRS5 scale IRS5 was renamed the WHI Insomnia RatingScale (WHIIRS) because the results indicated that it had the ... size as 25, and a small effect size as 10 WHI INSOMNIA RATING SCALE: MEASUREMENT Table Norms for the Women’s Health Initiative Insomnia RatingScale by Race–Ethnic and Age Groups Group M SD No of...
... K El-Garf, and M A van de Laar 2006 The validity and reliability of the graphic ratingscale and verbal ratingscale for measuing pain across cultures: A study in egyptian and dutch women with ... a VAS in NLP system evaluation that we are aware of (Gatt et al., 2009) Hybrid scales, known as a graphic rating scales, combine the features of VDSs and VASs, and are also used in psychology ... labeled visual analog scale vs verbal ordinal scale Respiratory Physiology & Neurobiology, 134(2):77 –83 J Scott and E C Huskisson 2003 Vertical or horizontal visual analogue scales Annals of the...
... frequency and severity Each item is evaluated on a (never) to (always) frequency scale and on a (mild) to (severe) severity scale The maximum frequency score is thus 80 and the maximum severity score ... AF-QoL-18 A simple symptoms assessment scale to be used at bedside was suggested in another publication, largely a reduction of the Toronto Symptoms Severity Scale It had however not been validated ... Mitchell LB, Roy D, Skanes AC, Wyse DG: A novel, simple scale for assessing the symptom severity of atrial fibrillation at the bedside: the CCS-SAF scale Can J Cardiol 2006, 22:383-386 Thrall G, Lane...
... between Gastrointestinal Symptom RatingScale (GSRS) and Quality of Life in Reflux and Dyspepsia Questionnaire (QOLRAD) domains and Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HAD) Questionnaire and ... Administration GERD, gastroesophageal reflux disease GSRS, Gastrointestinal Symptom RatingScale HAD, Hospital Anxiety and Depression scale ICC, intraclass correlation coefficient NDI, Nepean Dypepsia Index ... [44] Hospital Anxiety and Depression scale (HAD) The HAD is a screening tool developed for use in medical settings It consists of 14 items divided into two subscales for anxiety (seven items) and...
... education systems, the evaluation of the pupils' achievements is done by a grade on a 0–100 scale On this scale, a grade of 50 is usually considered a "passing grade", where lower grades indicate ... 0) A second explanation sees 50 as simply the midpoint on the positive 0–100 scale The psychometric importance of scales' midpoint is well known, e.g., the "midpoint bias", where (too) many respondents ... in other populations, in particular where the traditional educational achievement scales are based on other scales, e.g., the A, B, C, F grading system Acknowledgements The research was partly...
... abbreviations NPRS: Numerical pain rating scale; PBM: Preference based measure; QALY: Quality adjusted life year; TTO: Time trade-off; VAS-PI: Visual analogue scale for pain intensity Author details ... Care 1992, 30:473-483 12 Williamson A, Hoggart B: Pain: a review of three commonly used pain rating scales J Clin Nurs 2005, 14:798-804 13 Torrance GW: Measurement of health state utilities for ... doi:10.1186/1477-7525-9-96 Cite this article as: Dixon et al.: Deriving health state utilities for the numerical pain ratingscale Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2011 9:96 Submit your next manuscript to BioMed Central...
... frequency and severity Each item is evaluated on a (never) to (always) frequency scale and on a (mild) to (severe) severity scale The maximum frequency score is thus 80 and the maximum severity score ... AF-QoL-18 A simple symptoms assessment scale to be used at bedside was suggested in another publication, largely a reduction of the Toronto Symptoms Severity Scale It had however not been validated ... Mitchell LB, Roy D, Skanes AC, Wyse DG: A novel, simple scale for assessing the symptom severity of atrial fibrillation at the bedside: the CCS-SAF scale Can J Cardiol 2006, 22:383-386 Thrall G, Lane...
... employees of Dompé SpA, Milan, Italy Abbreviations (VAS): Visual Analogue Scale; (NRS): Numerical Rating Scale; (VRS): Verbal Rating Scales; (BP-EP): Breakthrough or intense Episodic Pain; (CI): Confidence ... equal to on a scale, indicate that background pain intensity was scored higher or equal to peak pain intensity with that scale (inconsistent evaluation) ber of verbal descriptors in VRS scales has ... Methodological problems in the measurement of pain: a comparison between the verbal ratingscale and the visual analogue scale Pain 1975, 1(4):379-384 10 Kremer E, Atkinson JH, Ignelzi RJ: Measurement...
... respondents interpret ratingscale response categories is therefore warranted in order to provide an evidence base for their selection when developing and modifying patient-reported rating scales Additionally, ... interpretation of commonly used ratingscale response categories and to identify distinct and roughly equally spaced response categories for patient-reported rating scales in PD and age-matched ... without dyskinesias (P = 0.212) Identification of distinct ratingscale response categories Results from the VAS evaluations of the 21 ratingscale response categories from the pooled sample are presented...
... interventions incorporating data that have already been collected We sought to measure both disease severity and health utilities in PD, through parallel application of disease specific rating scales and ... approximation of scaled, preference-based health utility measures of HRQoL Our objectives were to evaluate the relationship between disease severity (as measured by standard rating scales), and estimated ... capacity, emotional well being, and role function that may not be adequately captured by disease rating scales [12] Furthermore, generic HRQoL instruments allow comparison of healthrelated quality...
... Clinical Global Impression-Schizophrenia Scale [3], the Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale [4], the Scale for Assessment of Positive Symptoms [5] and the Scale for Assessment of Negative Symptoms ... necessary to devise rating scales using some form of statistical method Leaving aside the debate over whether psychopathological severity or state can be expressed in evaluation scales such as the ... might indicate that a simplified subscale might be valuable in comparison with the full scale, and it might be useful to clinicians for shortening time of rating, the reproducibility of items...
... Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) [9,10], the Carroll RatingScale for Depression (CRSD) [11-13], the Montgomery – Åsberg Depression RatingScale – Self report (MADRS-S) [14], the Hamilton Depression ... Carroll ratingscale for depression I Development, reliability and validation Br J Psychiatry 1981, 138:194-200 Smouse PE, Feinberg M, Carroll BJ, Park MH, Rawson SG: The Carroll ratingscale for ... BC: Zung, Beck, and Hamilton Rating Scales as measures of treatment outcome: a meta-analytic comparison J Consult Clin Psychol 1986, 54(1):54-9 Hamilton M: A ratingscale for depression J Neurol...
... validate a new clinical ratingscale for work functioning and productivity in patients with MDD Methods Scale Development The Lam Employment Absence and Productivity Scale (LEAPS) was designed ... many validated scales used to measure work performance and productivity, including generic productivity scales (e.g., Work Limitations Questionnaire [11], Stanford Presenteeism Scale [12]) that ... -0.70 0.41 Work productivity subscale (3 items) score* 0.50 -0.85 -0.77 0.45 LEAPS, Lam Employment Absence and Productivity Scale; SDS-Work, Sheehan Disability Scale, Work item; HPQ, Health and...
... of a self -rating version of the UKU Side Effect RatingScale (UKU-SERSPat) Nordic Journal of Psychiatry 2001, 55 Suppl 44:5-69 Ahlfors UG: UKU-SERS-Pat and UKU-ConSat - two new rating scales for ... together inflate alpha scores The ICQ scale also shows appropriate item endorsement (that is for every item on the scale ≥13% of patients scored ≥1), and scale endorsement (that is, less than ... http://respiratory-research.com/content/7/1/131 Personality: Neuroticism scale of the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire Revised Short Scale (EPQ-RSS)[26] scored 0–12; Negative affect scale of the Positive and Negative Affect...
... AttentionDeficit/Hyperactivity Disorder RatingScale (ADHD-RS), Clinical Global Impression-Severity (CGI-S), and the Weekly Rating of Evening and Morning Behavior – Revised (WREMB-R) The results from these scales have been ... physician ratings, but not for patient ratings The pattern of moderate to high correlations was similar between parent and physician ratings In the sensitivity analyses using baseline ratings only ... Reid R: ADHD Rating ScaleIV: Checklists, Norms, and Clinical Interpretations New York: Guilford; 1998 Faries DE, Yalcin I, Harder D, Heiligenstein JH: Validation of the ADHD RatingScale as a clinician...
... DNA and HIV-associated dementia AIDS 2005; 19: 45-52 16 Sacktor NC, Wong M, Nakasujja N, et al The International HIV Dementia Scale: a new rapid screening test for HIV dementia AIDS 2005; 19: ... (IQR) Not applicable 4.27 (2.10 to 5.28) 2.28 (0.69 to 4.30)
... Patients were assessed psychometrically both times the day before the scans with PANSS, a 33-item scale with to points (normal to extremely abnormal) for each item and sub-scores for positive, negative, ... Psychiatr Scand 1997;96: 51-57 Kay SR, Fiszbein A, Opler LA The positive and negative syndrome scale (PANSS) for schizophrenia Schizophr Bull 1987; 13(2):261-76 Kaplan HI, Sadock VA Schizophrenia...
... approaches to predict companies ratings, especially since the rating agency update their “grades” infrequently, there is a considerable value to being able to anticipate rating changes before they ... ω 2.2 Classification problem and corporate rating problem Usually an expert committee of a special financial agency performs the process of bond rating, but this process is covert with mystery ... for rating model design Introduction Credit risk forecasting is one of the leading topics in modern finance, as the bank regulation has made increasing use of external and internal credit ratings...
... with technical assistance Definition of small -scale mining There is no set definition of what is meant by a small -scale mine The definition of small -scale mining varies depending on the purpose ... will also be used where micro -scale mining refers to artisanal mining that involves no mechanisation and whose prime motivation is subsistence; medium -scale smallscale mining where mining is not ... orientated and involves mechanisation on a limited scale (one truck, one front-end loader and a mechanical pan/washer); to large -scale small -scale mining that is not subsistence oriented and involves...