5experimental validation of the sr based workflow

... [48] Amongst other important suggestions, they point out that a central aspect of the evaluation of clinical significant change is the returning of the patient’s score to the range of the mean plus ... participants did not understand the meaning of the questions or the use of the response scale The study procedures were in accordance with the declaration of Helsinki and approved by the local ethics committee ... use the PCM than the competing Rating Scale Model in the original development of the DESC [20] To ensure comparability of the results presented here with the original development sample of the...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 16:20

... HN was the mentor of LK and participated in the face validity process of the translation LK also participated in the writing of the manuscript LA had the comprehensive responsibility for the main ... as "moderate", with the best result for GERS We consider this acceptable in view of the outcome of the factor analysis, the conditioning in the codes for the symptom domains, the relatively few ... on the other hand lack overviews and have a compulsory step-by-step function Thus, the results of the printed questionnaire may be different from the computerized one We therefore compared the...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... candidates for exclusion However, it was the aim to include a reasonable spread of items in terms of the degree of severity they represented The logit severity of the selected items ranged from -1.25 ... that providing the descriptive system is valued on the same scale using the same variant of the same valuation technique, as was the case for the CAMPHOR and EQ-5D models, then the valuations ... according to the EQ-5D It is questionable whether any individuals with PH would consider themselves to have perfect health given the severe nature of the symptoms, the fact that the condition is often...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... the inner part of the membranes As shown in Figure 4e, many big aggregates appear in the middle part of the PVDF-PS membrane The hydrophobic property of PS polymer promoted the formation of these ... Thermal analysis of the PVDF-SPS composite membrane The TG analysis curve is presented in Figure for the investigation of the thermal stability of the PVDF membrane, PVDF-PS membrane, and the PVDF-SPS ... decomposes The swelling is due to the degradation of the cross-linking structure of the membrane in the H2O2 solution [33] The decomposition rate is larger than the swelling effect after 60 h The result...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 16:11

... investigation of the psychometric properties of the Malay language version of the job performance instrument with a sample of respondents from the Malaysian Public Service agencies In specific, the objectives ... objectives of this study were twofold: firstly, to assess the internal consistency reliability of the job performance dimensions and the total score, and secondly, to assess the construct validity of the ... profound impact on the performance of the public sector as a whole These bases prompted the need for practitioners and academia to systematically examine antecedents of job performance among the...

Ngày tải lên: 11/09/2013, 11:44

... addition of Mg2+ to the level of [Mg2+]e, as indicated in the figure Note that the framing of the different samples (solid, dotted, dashed or dash–dotted lines, respectively) matches the style of the ... heteromeric assembly of Mrs2p and Lpe10p Whereas direct binding of matrix Mg2+ to the N-terminal domain of Mrs2p results in fast closing of the channel [8,9], the reduction of the Mrs2p channel ... affect the ability of the protein to maintain DW Homo-oligomerization and hetero-oligomerization of Mrs2p and Lpe10p For a better understanding of how expression of Lpe10p influences the assembly of...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 21:20

... to 1; the closer to the RV, the more similar the configuration of the two sets of variables Validation and assessment of the psychometric properties of the PACT-Q dimensions Validity is the degree ... A2, A4 and A5, the higher the score, the higher the patients' expectations of their treatment; for items A3, A5 and A7, the lower the score, the higher the patients' expectations of their treatment ... particular, the assessment of the responsiveness and test-retest reliability properties of the questionnaire and the estimation of the value for the minimal important difference Given the design of the...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 18:20

... validity of the instruments Once again, the magnitude of this reduction in SFNDI scores was less marked in the Malay version of the SFNDI and the smaller sample size in this group might explain the ... observations of the SF-NDI with generic HRQoL instruments such as the SF-36 [10] and SF-12 [25] have been noted in other validation studies Apart from the original developers validation of the instrument ... phrasing of the original English SF-NDI items and no changes were made prior to validation Adaptation of the Malay SF-NDI A Malay translation of the SF-NDI was produced according to the standard...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 18:20

... test-retest reliability Eight of them had to be excluded from the analysis due to the worsening of their condition after the first use of the questionnaire, leading to a final number of 20 patients in this ... allows awareness of a patient's subjective perception of the disease and the daily limitations they face [6] There are various possible ways of assessing HRQoL The importance of using disease-specific ... (range 917) ICC is above the expected value of 0.6 for of the dimensions of the Child version, for "Digestive Symptoms" ICC shows a value of 0.5 In all dimensions of the Parent version, ICC values...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... debriefed version of the TRIM-Weight was incorporated into an online validation study to assess the measurement and psychometric properties of the measure As with the development phase, the validation ... dimensions of a PRO measure and the appropriateness of the total versus the domain score is dependent upon the purpose for which the measure is being used Therefore, the SAP for the TRIM-Weight was specifically ... uses The goal of this first validation study was to determine the initial measurement model and fundamental reliability and validity of the TRIM-Weight The cross sectional and web based nature of...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... Score (15 items), the mean is computed as the sum of the items divided by the number of items answered in the Emotional, Social, and School Functioning Scales The adaptation of the PedsQL™ 4.0 ... Scores are computed as the sum of the items divided by the number of items answered (this accounts for missing data) If more than 50% of the items in the scale are missing, the Scale Score is not ... different ways across these studies, but the lower bound of internal consistencies found by our study was lower than the ones reported for most of the other validation studies Types of validity tested...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... conclusions Another limitation of the study might be the patient selection and whether the severity-distribution of the patients was representative for primary care Out of the total sample of 111 subjects ... Comparison of instruments The total scores of the instruments have completely different scales (Table 2) Nevertheless, the distributions of total scores were similar, and the concordance ICC for the ... than 50% of predicted, respectively The measurement properties of the CCQ were not destroyed by concomitant asthma The relevance of the present data is supported by the subgroup analysis of patients...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... 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 interpretation FJS drafted the ... symptoms of depression were positively associated with a more negative appraisal of insulin therapy [18] Further research into the role of negative affect in patients' perceptions of insulin therapy ... removed, and the topic of weight gain is generally acknowledged as one of the important barriers in the current treatment of type diabetes [20] We therefore suggest to retain item in the ITAS, deserving...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 22:20

... However, there has been a dearth of studies to quantitatively assess either the well-being of parents of children with type diabetes or their satisfaction with their child's diabetes regimen The paucity ... parents and their children were included in the study Approximately 90% of the parents/ caregivers were female, usually mothers, with a mean age of 37.1 years (Table 1) The majority of the subjects ... items), Ease of Insulin Use (9 items), Treatment Satisfaction (9 items), and Acceptance of Insulin Administration (6 items) The labeling of these scales was based on the consensus of the research...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 22:20

... raises the question of whether these similarities remain or not in other different cultures The demonstration of cultural invariance of the core attitudes to aging could lead to the possibility of ... psychometric theory and Rasch Analysis in the validation of the AAQ instrument in a Brazilian sample of older adults Methods Pilot study The pilot study followed the methodology applied by the WHOQOL ... [5,6] Quantifying the raise of proportion of old adults in the world population is relevant but insufficient It is also important to study the quality of this increase The experience of ageing is...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 22:20

... For the development of the PIPP, selection of the domains was guided in part by the ICF, but also by a review of existing measures and a series of qualitative interviews One of the concerns of ... Thailand Methods The study was conducted in urban, rural and remote areas of Khon Kaen Province in the Northeast Region (Isaan), the setting of the Thai arm of the RESILIENCE study The Isaan region, ... supportive of the construct validity of the PIPP, given the expected relationship among the various aspects assessed None of the correlations were so high as to indicate redundancy, with the highest of...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 22:20

... trimester The modified-PUQE is based on physical symptoms of NVP: the extent of nausea in hours, the quantity of retching episodes, and the number of vomiting episodes on an average day since the beginning ... age; 2) at their first prenatal visit at the obstetric and gynaecology clinic of the CHU Sainte-Justine or the René-Laennec clinic; 3) pregnant within 16 weeks of the first day of their last ... comparable The standard version of the SF-12 covered the past weeks and the NVPQOL covered the past week Given that most of the NVP symptoms disappear by the 20th week of gestation [2], we have good...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 22:20

... [20,21] Range of measurement was further tested based on the percentage of scores at the extremes of the scaling range, that is, the maximum possible score (ceiling effect) and the minimum possible ... Comparisons to the mean scores of the other subscales within the present study to those of the previous PedsQL™ school study [3], the mean scores on the social functioning scale of both healthy ... summary score, the mean is computed as the sum of the items divided by the number of items answered in the emotional, social, and school functioning subscales If more than 50% of the items in a...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 22:20

... subscales of the four different questionnaires are given in Figure Comparison of the RAOS to the SF-36, the HAQ and the AIMS2 Validity When comparing the frequency of missing baseline data between the ... physical therapists reviewed the questionnaire Development of the RAOS questionnaire To assess content validity of the items the patients were asked to rate the relevance or importance of each ... Arthritis1Outcome validation process of the Rheumatoid The adaptation and Score (RAOS) The adaptation and validation process of the Rheumatoid Arthritis Outcome Score (RAOS) Firstly, the RAOS was...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... "Emotions") The number of infections appearing from the date of the kidney transplantation to month six of the follow up, maintained low degrees of correlation with the scores of the dimensions of the ... dimension of the Spanish KTQ, dividing the difference between the mean score in the first interview and that of the last one by the standard deviation of the mean score in the first interview [19] The ... correlations with the Karnofsky's Scale This is the logical direction of the association: the greater the seric hemoglobin or the better the functional state is, the better the HRQoL evaluated by the KTQ...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20