... Outcomes
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Development and validation of a psychosocial screening instrument
for cancer
Wolfgang Linden*
1,2
, Dahyun Yi
1
, Maria Cristina Barroetavena
2,3
,
Regina MacKenzie
2
and ... Canada and
3
Health Care and Epidemiology, University of British Columbia, Canada
Email: Wolfgang Linden* - wlinden@psych.ubc.ca; Dahyun Yi - dyi@hotmail.com; Ma...
... respectively.
Table 5 presents examples comparing the predicted values
according to each model and the actual values for each
health state.
Validation of the preference based CAMPHOR scale
A majority ... value of the health
state x/t is bounded by 1.0 for perfect health and zero for
states as bad as being dead. For states worse than being
dead, health state values were cal...
... analysis of literature. Transplantation
1997, 64:1261-1273.
15. Fujisawa M, Ichikawa Y, Yoshiya K, Isotani S, Higuchi A, Nagano S,
Arakawa S, Hamami G, Matsumoto O, Kamidono S: Assessment of
health-related ... Comparaison of mortality in all patients on
dialysis, patients on dialysis awaiting transplantation, and
recipients of a first cadaveric transplant. N Eng J Med 1999,
341(2...
... citation purposes)
Health and Quality of Life Outcomes
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Development and validation of a Greek language version of the
Manchester Foot Pain and Disability Index
Patricia Kaoulla
1
, ... Silman AJ, Thomas E, Jayson MI, Macfar-
lane GJ: The grading of hallux valgus. The Manchester Scale.
J Am Podiatr Med Assoc 2001, 91:74-78.
21. Menz HB, Munteanu SE: Rad...
... (10.9%)
ETHNICITY:
- White/Caucasian 168 (83.2%)
- Black/African American 14 (6.9%)
- Latino/Hispanic/Mexican American 10 (5.0%)
- Native American/Alaskan Native 1 (0.5%)
- Asian American/Pacific Islander 5 (2.5%)
- ... Sinha A, Hass SL, Colman SS, Kumar RN, Brod M, Rowland CR:
Validation of a general measure of treatment satisfaction, the Treatment
Satisfaction Questionnaire for M...
... data collected and participated in the
design of the validation study and the development of the
statistical plan. FP carried out the statistical analyses. All
authors participated in the data ... respond-
ents are displayed in Table 1. Mean age in the total sample
was 59 ± 11 years, 54% were female, mean HbA
1c
was 6.8
± 1.8 and participants had a mean diabetes duration of...
... Central
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Development and validation of the WEll-being and Satisfaction of
CAREgivers of ... design and coordination of the study. XL contrib-
uted statistical analysis and helped to draft the manu-
script. RA and LA participated in the design and
coordin...
... these areas are not included in the measures available. This paper
aims to develop and validate a reliable attitude to aging instrument by combining classical
psychometric approach and Rasch analysis.
Methods: ... Outcomes
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Development and validation of the Brazilian version of the
Attitudes to Aging Questionnaire (AAQ): An example of merging
classica...
... sampling adequacy
and Barlett's Test of Sphericity are reported for assessing
factorability of the data.
Reliability
Scale reliability was assessed using Cronbach's alpha.
Item-total and inter-item ... database if they
caring for a relative with an eating disorder. These carers
are sent an information pack with general information
about our ongoing research, the annual...
... United States (Alabama, California, Indiana and Minnesota)
and Canada (Toronto and Waterloo) with non-SS KCS (four groups) and SS (two groups) subjects.
Patients were recruited in hospital-based ... eye as a “multifactorial disease of the tears and ocular surface
that results in symptoms of discomfort, visual disturbance, and tear film instability with potential
damage to...