... done before thetrial in order to develop the intervention For a further six (7%) of the trials, qualitative research had been carried out before thetrial and was available as either published ... information regarding the objective of the qualitative study, the methods of data collection and analysis used, and the key themes and categories identified Results Fifty-two (63%) of the 82 trials had ... studies that had cited this paper The same researcher then assessed full versions of potential papers to determine whether they were related to thetrial and whether they had used qualitative research...
... those for other scales [12,13] The six domains of the first visual analog scale and the Karnofsky score are hereafter referred to as ‘attributes’ The clinical trialThe KyberSept trial was a ... investigator, the patient, and the family were blinded to the treatment assignment (placebo versus AT III) throughout the duration of the clinical trialThe secondary outcome was change in the attribute ... part of the phase III multicenter KyberSept trial To the best of our knowledge, limited information on the effects of sepsis treatment on QoL has been reported [2,3] The report focuses on the effects...
... continued in the main assessment was given back the assessment booklet, and the interviewer asked the respondent to complete the tasks in the booklet and guided the respondent through the tasks The main ... based upon their performance on the seven easy screening tasks at the beginning of the literacy assessment Because they could be placed on the NAAL scale based on their responses to the seven ... member of the AIR team during the early stages of the NAAL, and the project greatly benefited from his experience and wisdom.Another former member of the AIR team, Eugene Johnson, who directed the...
... DG Environment of the Commission on the strategic direction of the CAFE programme The approaches to answering the questions were rather complex The procedure for preparing the report Health aspects ... The designations employed and the presentation of the material in this publication not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the World Health Organization concerning the ... FOLLOWUP OF THE SYSTEMATIC REVIEW FURTHER ACTION IS NEEDED! The findings of the systematic review and the preliminary results of integrated assessment modelling through CAFE on the effects of...
... biological mother or father) 27 Guttmacher Institute Adolescents had more contact with their mothers than their fathers: More lived with their biological mothers (73%) than with their biological fathers ... alcohol, the age at which they first tried it and whether they had been drunk in the 12 months prior to the survey The table shows that 16% of the females and 20% of the males said they had ever ... not complete the interview for other reasons, then this difference in response rates may be partially responsible for the discrepancies in theresultsThe wording of questions was the same in...
... on the frame used by the Ghana Statistical Service for the DHS The first stage involved the selection of regional clusters from urban and rural clusters in the 10 regions of the country In the ... distributions of thepilot survey results One of the strategies was to ensure that most of the contents of the survey were comparable across all four countries Both the screener and the survey instrument ... in April 2003 Further revisions were made in light of the input from external reviewers and low-priority items were removed fromthe survey, based on the time estimates fromthe mock interviews,...
... Most of these studies focus on only or content areas, but taken together, they provide evidence of the impact that school health education can have and its critical role, along with the other components ... Unfortunately, the number of these coordinators who served as the respondent to the district-level health education SHPPS questionnaire was too small for meaningful analysis of the data about their qualifications ... Unfortunately, the number of these coordinators who served as the respondent to the school-level health education SHPPS questionnaire was too small for meaningful analysis of the data about their qualifications...
... between the sensitivity of available instruments for the disease or condition under study and the comparability (and therefore policy-relevance) of study results Leaving aside the question of whether ... AQoL scores at the group level in the validation sample With regards to (i), the higher the strength of association, the better the algorithm is able to predict variation along the scale Note, ... course, contingent on the availability of NIHSS data to the end-user in the relevant dataset It could therefore be argued that using the SF-36 rather than NIHSS to partition the sample during estimation...
... never-, ex- and current, where the current smokers were the ones that reported having smoked during the last month in the ECRHS II The longest held job during the follow up period was used as ... questions from which the physical component summary (PCS) and the mental component summary (MCS) were computed as described in the SF36 User’s Manual [23] The scores were transformed so that the mean ... physical scores [28] The mean PCS of patients with COPD was 45, in other words in the same magnitude as the score decrements as the respiratory symptoms investigated in the present study In a...
... approaches to improving the specific energy of the system are to reduce the weight of the structural components of the cell and to improve the utilization of the active materials The latter depends ... proposed: the first suggested the formation of a high-resistance corrosion layer at the surface of the current-collector Žgrid.; the second involved a degradation of the microstructure of the positive ... out by the research team at the Technical University of Brno showed that there was a strong correlation of the progressive fall in capacity as the battery was cycled with the decrease in the conductance...
... in the interpretation of results, and drafting of the manuscript ASM participated in the interpretation of the results, and drafting of the manuscript ER participated in the interpretation of the ... W2 * f1 * f2 *f3 *f4 Where W1 = the inverse of the probability of selecting the school, W2 = the inverse of the probability of selecting the classroom within the school, fl = a school-level non ... Although there has been growing interest in the topic in the last 20 years [1-8], studies that have been reported have mainly come from Europe and the United States There are also some reports from...
... to the interpretation of theresults LP had the main responsibility for the genetic analyses and contributed to the analysis and interpretation of theresults LA and LK were responsible for the ... The study was supported by grants fromthe Swedish Medical Research Council, fromthe Swedish Council for Working life and Social Research, fromthe King Gustaf V's 80-year foundation, fromthe ... contributed to the design of the study, and the interpretation and writing of the manuscript HK performed a major part of the biostatistics work and contributed to the interpretation of results and the...
... due to the cross-sectional nature of the study and some of the predictors being identified may be predictors of survival following a CV event rather than the occurrence of the event Furthermore, ... event before the diagnosis of RA were excluded fromthe risk factor analyses Time-to-event was calculated fromthe date of diagnosis of RA; patients with no CV event were censored at the date of ... Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Serbia, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, the UK, the USA, and Argentina Approval for the study was obtained from local internal review boards...
... candidate criteria The rationale behind this approach is derived fromthe hypothesis that the physician at the time of a disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drug (DMARD) prescription assumes the patient ... independent of the clinician's knowledge of these factors, namely persistent joint swelling We believe that the use of this additional outcome in our study adds to the validity of theresults Conclusions ... designer of the study and helped draft the manuscript All authors read and approved the final manuscript Acknowledgements The authors thank the patients for participating in this study, the Norwegian...
... suitability of the intervention (uptake) or the research design fromthe perspective of the participants [20] Whether there are many or few objectives in a pilot trial, the importance is that specific objectives ... addition, they were informed of the pooled resultsfrom their colleagues Time was made available during the workshop to explain how to interpret theresults This information was collected at the time ... scientific quality of the content, the educational structure of the workshops, the trainers, and the workshops in general After the onset of the trial, investigators and the research team met...
... Interestingly, theresults of this study are similar to theresults of several other studies that had a different study design or were conducted outside of the United States Because of the high cost ... RLAT [17], the number of patients requiring hospitalization decreased significantly (p < 0001) from 38% during the 12 weeks before study entry to 12% during the last 12 weeks of the study The need ... (p < 0001) from 70% during the 12 weeks before study entry to 30% during the first 12 weeks of treatment The need for outpatient consultations remained stable during the remainder of the treatment...
... findings since they may conceal the true functional form of the relationship Furthermore, concerns have been raised about whether the WHO classification is appropriate for use in the older population ... with the history of cancer were more pronounced in the older age group Furthermore, the negative effect of low BMI on HRQL was more important in the older age group (results not shown) The stratified ... our results may underestimate the burden of comorbidity in the older population Nevertheless, the prevalence of the chronic conditions in our study sample was comparable to that reported in another...
... objective was to evaluate whether the preliminary test results could be confirmed in a larger set of patients fromthe same study Materials and methods The details of the GO-FORWARD study have been ... proportion of women than the other treatment groups in the training subset In the test subset, mean baseline marker levels were similar among the treatment groups, with the exception of levels ... other types of markers from other studies will be needed to identify additional molecules that can either be added to strengthen this panel or be used independently as predictive markers in the...
... associated with IR in the general population It is therefore reasonable to consider whether IR relates primarily to these factors rather than the inflammatory diease process per se [11] There is also ... [43] Therefore endothelial dysfunction is hypothesised to be a primary step in the development of the insulin resistant state The development of RF and ACPA have also been associated with the ... low-dose steroid therapy [34] We plan to follow this cohort to determine whether over time therapy does play a role in influencing the metabolic status of these patients over time Most of the association...
... responded to the question on whether they smoked cigarettes in the previous 30 days Altogether 15.8% of the respondents reported having smoked cigarettes in the previous 30 days There was no ... was set at the 5% level In order to understand and explain theresults of the quantitative analysis in this study, three health behavior theories i.e the Health Belief Model (HBM), the Knowledge, ... dependent on their own cognitive capacity, as well as on social-physical environment in which they are situated The HBM on the other hand, promotes four constructs representing the perceived...