... 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...
... 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...
... 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 ... 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 ... 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...
... 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...
... NUCLEAR AND RADIOLOGICAL EVENT SCALE USER’S MANUAL 2008 Edition (Revised) INES THE INTERNATIONAL NUCLEAR AND RADIOLOGICAL EVENT SCALE USER’S MANUAL 2008 EDITION (REVISED) CO-SPONSORED BY THE INTERNATIONAL ... basis of the rating and to respond to any questions The rating explanation should clearly show how the event rating has been determined referring to the appropriate parts of the rating procedure ... for rating under the contamination spread criterion of “a few tens of gigabecquerels of 131I” Rating for actual consequences Below Scale/ Level 36 Example Fuel damage at a reactor — Below Scale/ Level...
... this scale in clinical setting was limited by its length Recently, a shorter, 18-item version of the Obsessions and Compulsions Inventory Revised (OCI-R) was developed by Foa et al [9] This revised ... Likert scale to assess the frequency of symptoms and the associated distress The original version of the OCI has been demonstrated to have good to excellent internal consistency for the full scale ... have a stable factor structure, high internal consistency for the full scale (ranged from 0.81 to 0.93) and for the subscales (ranged from 0.65 to 0.90), good to excellent test-retest reliability...
... of my teeth tomorrow I'm having two teeth taken out tomorrow d) The teacher made us all tidy up We were made to tidy up by the teacher e) The car is thought to have been stolen by joy-riders Joy-riders ... 292 10 Index 295 Grammar answers 297 Vocabulary answers 313 Words and phrases answers 322 vii The revised edition of this book is designed with a greater emphasis on text and collocation, in keeping ... trends in the world of English as a Foreign Language It also incorporates the many changes to the revised proficiency examination from December 2002, such as word formation and multiple word meaning...