... as the standard therapyfor heart failure (Hauptman and Kelly, 1999) In the future, there might be other uses for digitoxin There is evidence that digitoxin might have utility in cancer therapy ... study design, performance, and analysis, with a focus on randomization of the study subjects, blinding of the investigators and study subjects, and the handling of dropouts and withdrawal of ... subjects are randomly allocated into the treatment group and a control group that receives placebo Appropriate randomization should result in the treatment and control groups being uniform 11 Use of...
... agenda for thinking and practice on disability and social change – an agenda for the liberation of disabled people Knowledge and ideas play an important role in any liberation struggle and educational ... traditional authority of medical and ‘caring’ professions for the solutions to their problems and instead to those who are campaigning for social transformation and civil rights This is indeed ... and about understanding the social relations and barriers that prevent their full participation, equality and citizenship It is also about understanding strategies for challenge and resistance...
... daughters, Melanie and Monica, and my family and friends, who’ve always supported me through everything I’ve done MJ To my wife, Ruthy, daughter, Sarah, and sons, Corey and Chad, whose love and companionship ... spectacle People with physical disabilities and bodily deformities, as well as tribal nonwhite “cannibals” and “savages,” were displayed for public amusement and entertainment along with sword swallowers, ... parents and grandparents, who were involved in gangs Moreover, gang members are not social outsiders in their communities; they are sons and daughters, grandchildren, nephews and nieces, and neighbors’...
... agenda for thinking and practice on disability and social change – an agenda for the liberation of disabled people Knowledge and ideas play an important role in any liberation struggle and educational ... traditional authority of medical and ‘caring’ professions for the solutions to their problems and instead to those who are campaigning for social transformation and civil rights This is indeed ... and about understanding the social relations and barriers that prevent their full participation, equality and citizenship It is also about understanding strategies for challenge and resistance...
... 1992; Nicholson, 2003] Recent efforts have attempted to standardize diagnostic criteria and definitions for problematic medication use behaviors andsubstanceuse disorders across professional ... patient was trapped by his handicap Rehabilitative psychotherapy reframed the performance of overcoming the handicap as a success and rewarded the efforts of physical therapyand vocational rehabilitation ... concerns about substance abuse and malpractice represents another behavioral form of depression While the medications have an inherent potential for intoxication and abuse, they often reinforce disability...
... 1992; Nicholson, 2003] Recent efforts have attempted to standardize diagnostic criteria and definitions for problematic medication use behaviors andsubstanceuse disorders across professional ... patient was trapped by his handicap Rehabilitative psychotherapy reframed the performance of overcoming the handicap as a success and rewarded the efforts of physical therapyand vocational rehabilitation ... concerns about substance abuse and malpractice represents another behavioral form of depression While the medications have an inherent potential for intoxication and abuse, they often reinforce disability...
... Immunization and infectious diseases Arthritis, osteoporosis, and chronic back conditions Injury and violence prevention Blood disorders and blood safety* Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender ... training standards would be implemented for direct-care providers by increasing existing federal training requirements and establishing state-based standards And finally, because informal caregivers ... authors, editors, and publisher have made every effort to provide accurate information However, they are not responsible for errors, omissions, or for any outcomes related to the use of the contents...
... domains of sociopolitical formation? How are we to analyze, on the one hand, the development of a new governmental agency and, on the other hand, a transforming and expanding sphere of difference? ... CASA— the Department of Cultural and Social Anthropology at Stanford for extending their warmth, for creating such a vibrant intellectual space here in California, andfor helping me Wnd my footing ... to current and former graduate students at Stanford working in the terrains of medical anthropology and cultural studies of science, with whom I have had the good fortune to interact and who have...
... Anxiety and Depression Scale -A review of validation data and clinical results J Psychosom Res 1997, 42:17-41 Razavi D, Delvaux N, Farvacques C, Robaye C: Screening for adjustment disorders and major ... Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HAD): Some psychometric data for a Swedish sample Acta Psychiatr Scand 1997, 96:281-286 Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Health and Quality of ... Statistical analyses were performed using SPSS 10.0 [35] and AMOS version 4.0 [36] Results Descriptive statistics of the subscales The mean scores of HADS-A and HADS-D were 7.0 and 6.5, respectively...
... [7] was used to identify and link meaningful concepts to the ICF Our results for the activities and participation codes for the Page of 12 (page number not for citation purposes) Health and Quality ... to 100% (ROPP) for the first-level ICF categories and codes and 77% (P-Scale) to 95% (ROPP) for the second-level ICF categories and codes Level of agreement could not be reported for the IPA since ... tell the respondent to consider the 'use of assistance' or the 'use of products and technology' and e-categories for these mean- ingful concepts were identified and linked All of the meaningful concepts...
... JE: SD-36 Health Survey Manual and Interpretation Guide Boston: Nomrod Press 1993 Lam CL, Tse EY, Gandek B: Is the standard SF-12 health survey valid and equivalent for a Chinese population? Qual ... QoL, and (4) controlling for pain, the relationship between depression and QoL should be reduced or no longer significant Perfect mediation is established if the association between depression and ... Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale Depression subscale Higher scores indicate greater psychological distress classified as Grade Zero, Grade I, and Grade II were 0%, 31.1%, and 45.3% respectively...
... depression and anxiety (for example "I feel tense and irritable") Response options for each question range from to and ask patients about their agreement with the statements or how often they apply (for ... between the anchors (CRQ and Feeling Thermometer) and the HADS domain and total score We decided to use linear Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Health and Quality of Life Outcomes ... and the CRQ emotional function and mastery domains and between the HADS total score and the CRQ emotional function and total score None of the correlations between the HADS depression score and...
... treating urologists and therefore in charge of patient recruitment GJ and KM performed the statistical analysis HB and ND helped to draft the manuscript and gave important input for intellecutal ... Additionally T-tests for dependent and independent samples were used For comparisons regarding sociodemographic and clinical variables Pearson-χ2-tests, Mann-Whitney-U-tests and Ttests were conducted ... number not for citation purposes) Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2008, 6:72 Authors' contributions IP and GV were responsible for study design and conceptualization as well as for data collection...
... designed questionnaire which included specific instruments for cognitive and behavioural appraisal and evaluation of stress both in the patient and the caregiver In particular, to define the cognitive ... or refuse care Patient consent and ethical approval Caregivers who contributed to the research have been informed on the project and gave consent to processing of personal data (L 675/96) and the ... patients have to be constantly supervised and 42% need to be helped also when washing and dressing, andfor eating, etc., being completely dependent upon the informal caregiver Inadequacy of the caregiver...
... within the KOOS Therefore, scores for the subscales of the WOMAC were extracted from the KOOS Both the KOOS and the WOMAC have good psychometric properties and are commonly used to assess patient ... between each time point was performed with the Wilcoxon signedranks test [20] Because four separate nonparametric ANOVAs were performed and we could potentially perform 12 post-hoc tests between ... inspection, the importance ratings for the 32 concerns identified in our earlier study [15] were skewed Therefore the median and first and third quartiles were used to summarize the distribution...
... scores for patients with CRPS and CLBP The median score of 159 and 152 for consecutively patients with CRPS and CLBP are in agreement with published mean score of 146 (SD 49) for male and 150 ... order to be able to read and interpret the questionnaire Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2008, 6:8 The information and informed consent procedure ... Limburg, the Netherlands Instruments For all participating patients: Psychological distress The Dutch Version of the Symptom Checklist (SCL-90) was used to assess psychological distress The SCL-90...
... variables such as age, age of onset, and disease duration The test was used for analysis of count variables for categorical data and the Fisher exact test was used where appropriate The MS Severity ... lipid profile and clinical status The standardized acquisition and analysis methods for obtaining contrast-enhancing lesion volume (CE-LV), CE lesion number (CEL number), T2-LV, T1-LV and brain parenchymal ... triglycerides and lower LDL than healthy controls [20] However, only limited information is available on the effect of serum triglycerides and cholesterol levels and the roles of HDL and LDL levels...
... been given mandates by other UN bodies and instruments For example, the 1993 UN Standard Rules on the Equalization of Opportunities for Persons with Disabilities created a mandate for a Special ... rights abuses (e.g., torture and abduction) and forms of discrimination (e.g., racial discrimination), and the rights of particular groups, such as women, children, migrant workers and now, ... active and are unlikely to use illegal drugs in ways that carry a risk of HIV infection Thus, HIV education and other prevention efforts focused on reducing transmission through sex or drug use...
... through MeSH, and these were used to create the search string Common synonyms for HIV, AIDS, and http://www.jiasociety.org/content/12/1/34 disability and its different forms, were identified and then ... cultural issues, disability and HIV/AIDS, and six (16%) included sexual abuse and six included sexuality in their study design Only one study focused on sexual selfesteem and body image [23], two ... sizes and used between seven and 3358 participants The largest sample size came from an operational research in Kenya with 3358 deaf and hearing participants [15] While most studies focused directly...
... administered, easy to useand have good psychometric properties Many of the available measures (eg Beck Depression Inventory [4]) are quite long and detailed, and are restricted foruse by psychologists, ... anxiety and anhedonic depression, of interest theoretically, is of little use to clinicians wishing to use the HADS to quickly and simply screen their patients for elevated levels of anxiety and ... scales: A practical guide to their development anduse Oxford , Oxford University Press; 1995 Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2005, 3:82 10 11...