reef stirs debate over early signs of life in australian rocks 1457

... of children are dying during their early days of life in spite of high po-tential health coverage, investigation of quality of health services and strengthening of maternal and child health interventions ... Significant number of children died during their early days of life Strengthening of maternal and child health interventions during pregnancy, during and immediately after birth are recommended in order ... Arba Minch University and locked in a secure cabinet which was arranged in the compound of College of Health Sciences of the Arba Minch University on daily basis The data were entered into Epi info

Ngày tải lên: 27/02/2020, 12:33

... a goal defined in terms of the behaviour to be achieved Set the goal of eating 5 pieces of fruit per day Routinely Used Goal setting (outcome) Set or agree on a goal defined in terms of a positive ... social) or internal (physical, emotional or cognitive) Prompt planning the drinking of a supplement at a particular time (e.g before work) on certain days of the week Routinely Used Monitoring of behaviours ... measure of health related quality of life [32] We have included this tool along with the EQ-5D-5 L as it is a disease-specific quality of life instrument that includes items within several domains

Ngày tải lên: 24/07/2020, 01:44

... different stages of life and in this way to explore the impact of CF in the course of a lifetime In comparison to other studies investigating HRQoL in children with CF, the number of patients in this ... Child version in addition The findings of the current study underline the impor-tance of combining self- and proxy rating, not only in Ger-many Trang 8Strengths and limitations of questionnaire ... record all impacts of a disease on daily life, they allow investigations in large populations Considering the advances in CF therapy and with regard to the recent increase in interest in PROs, the

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... subsequent (early/late) measurements It should be kept in mind that the point of focus of this study is the identification of predictors modifying the worsening (aggravation) of HRQoL at any time point ... short-term pain Commenting on late effects, a striking finding is that long-term pain (EQ-5D pain/discomfort and SF-36 Bodily Pain dimensions) seemed rather idiosyncratic, since none of the predictors ... be of inter-est so as to gain more detailed insight into the phenomenon of long-term pain Further commenting on late effects, once again mastal-gia emerged as an unfavorable risk factor, being

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... requirement in accordance with the WHO definition of health and well-being [3] Pediatric quality of life studies that investigate the individuals’ perceptions of their well-being in a multidimensional ... psychosocial quality of life irrespective of the severity of heart disease [23] This recent result affirms previous findings of studies focusing on various dimensions of quality of life [21,24-27] ... that compliance to taking medicine in the period of early adolescence is declining but may remain unrecognized by the parents [65-67] Our data not confirm the findings of higher parent-child

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... behavior, and quality of life in adolescents in grades 7 to 12 in schools in the province of British Columbia (BC), Canada The methods of this survey have been described in detail in several published ... researchers and providers increasingly recognize the importance of obtaining information about adoles-cents’ perspectives of their quality of life (QOL) [1-10] Several instruments have been developed ... the relative importance of self-reported physical and mental health status and the five life domains in explaining global QOL in Table 2 Joint and marginal distributions of self-reported physical

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... Only initial TOI was a clini-cally meaningful predictor of follow-up TOI, with a 1 SD increase (12.7 points) in initial TOI scores corresponding to a 6.4 point increase in follow-up TOI scores Initial ... HMO, PPO, private)], six domains of perceived quality of care, control of pain and discomfort (definitely vs somewhat/not at all) and con-trol of nausea and vomiting (definitely vs somewhat/not at ... colostomy at the time of the interviews were not asked these bowel-related items, including 131 (12.1%) of 1,079 patients in the ini-tial survey and 54 (9.5%) of 568 patients in the follow-up survey

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... responsiveness of generic and specific quality-of-life instru-ments J Clin Epidemiol 2003, 56(1):52-60. 39. Coons SJ, Rao S, Keininger DL, Hays RD: A comparative review of generic quality-of-life instruments ... 2) Ocular pain 19 Amount time: pain Near vision 5 Reading normal newsprint 6 Seeing well up close 7 Finding objects on crowded shelf Distance vision 8 Reading street signs 9 Going down stairs ... trial of once-daily ruboxistaurin for vision loss in patients with diabetic retinopathy The clinical findings and characteristics of this trial have been reported previously [22] A total of 684

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... exercise was divided into two major categories: any form of exercise, excluding walking, lasting a mini-mum of 30 minutes per day, and walking alone, again for a minimum period of 30 minutes Both groups ... quality of life in adults 65 years and older Obesity Res 2004, 12:69-76. 50. Borowiak E, Kostka T: Predictors of quality of life in older peo-ple living at home and in institutions Aging Clin Exp ... important determinant of the quality of life,both from the standpoint of physical health and that of mental wellbeing In our study, overweight female sub-jects were older than overweight males,

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... need for integration of quality of life impact into clinical outcome evaluations in the future especially in developing countries like India where it is often ignored The possibility of further ... validated India specific postpartum quality of life assessment tool we proposed to evaluate the utility of an adapted Mother-Generated-Index in assessing postpartum quality of life (PQOL) in India ... provide information on a wide range of potentially relevant issues) and allows easy administration of general instructions in any lan-guage It has the inherent advantage of determining and rating

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... published in English and 3 in Chinese [27,29,33]. The included studies were carried out within different countries: 3 in China [27-29]; 1 in both China and southern Thailand [33]; 2 in India [21,35]; ... tuberculosis-specific quality of life instrument was not located. The findings showed that tuberculosis had a substantial and encompassing impact on patients' quality of life. Overall, the anti- tuberculosis ... generic instruments [1,4]. One spe- cial category of generic HRQL instruments assesses "pref- erences" for certain health states [2]. These instruments summarize quality of life into a single

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... assessscor-ing erosions and joint space narrowing of joints of hands and feet in peripheral PsA The proposed adapted scoring method for PsA is a detailed scoring method evaluating erosions, joint space ... consists of 6 VAS relating to major symptoms relevant to AS: fatigue, spinal pain, joint pain, localized tender-ness, and morning stiffness (measured in terms of both degree and length of time ... of skin involvement, erythema, plaque thickness, and degree of scaling [31] The PASI score can vary in increments of 0.1 units from 0 to 72, with higher scores representing a greater degree of

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... reduced pain, and greater emotional wellbeing (i.e., happiness) The clinical relevance of the mediating role of physical activity can be inferred by com-paring the magnitude of the indirect effect ... self-reported health outcomes in older adults by: 1) maintain-ing or augmentmaintain-ing physiological functions (e.g., preven-tion of sarcopenia); 2) reducing the likelihood of acquiring additional chronic ... contributing to the substantial increase in the incidence of chronic con-ditions in the latter part of the 20th century Thus, physical activity can prevent the onset of chronic conditions Our findings

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 22:20

... abdominal pain is the typical dyspepsia symptom, internal consistency was only moderate in the Abdominal pain domain of the GSRS This generally low internal consistency in the Abdominal pain domain ... difficulty of measuring this often fluctuating symptom, as well as the fact that the GSRS Abdominal pain domain contains only two items In previous international studies conducted in patients ... I: Handling missing data in quality of life questionnaires: Experience from clinical trials 6th Annual Conference of the International Society for Quality of Life Research, Barcelona, Spain 1999

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 22:20

... what continuous variables should be entered linearly or non-linearly (using splines with four knots) in the models Single imputations used the independent variables in the regression in ques-tion, ... following guidelines For continuous variables meas-ured on a 0–100 scale (including coping), we assume that a 5 point difference is of some, and a 10 point difference of substantial clinical ... symptoms of angina pectoris measuredby AFS was 62.7 (28.5) HADS scores of 8 or more, indi-cating anxiety, were found in 26% of the patients, while HADS-depression scores of at least 8, indicating

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 22:20

... highlighting pointers on the interview transcripts, writing memos, linking themes together, arriv-ing at core themes, further integration of categories by cre-ating links between them and defining ... representation of these factors across each of the domains in turn represents level of impact upon HRQoL Conclusion The present study marks a starting point in clarifying and describing HRQoL domains in ... during the interviews, these included: worrying about having to go into hospital again, concern about how the illness will progress, feeling uncertain about the future, not being able to plan into

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... Corresponding author Abstract Background: The Rhinosinusitis Disability Index (RSDI) is a validated measure of health-related quality of life (HRQL) in rhinitis Responsiveness of the RSDI to changes in ... large role in determining quality of life in rhinitis Although the discriminative properties of the RSDI have been studied in a cross-sectional fashion, its responsive-ness to changes in health ... Control of Rhinitis Questionnaire ROM-31: 31-item Rhinosinusitis Outcome Measure RQLQ: Rhinoconjunctivitis Quality of Life Questionnaire RSDI: Rhinosinusitis Disability Index RSS-4: 4-item Rhinitis

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... Questionnaire Quality of Life in Depression Scale Quality of Life Index Quality of Life Interview Severe Mental Illness Standard gamble Time tradeoff World Health Organization Quality of Life Assessment ... study for purposes of review EuroQoL visual analog scale Illness Intrusiveness Rating Scale Lancashire Quality of Life Profile Lehman Quality of Life Interview Longitudinal Interval Follow-up ... sub-set of patients Younger age of onset of BD predicts Q-LES-Q scores Onset of BD determined retrospectively No significant differences in SF-36 domain scores according to mode of administration (inperson

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... expand on these earlier findings by examining a wider range of health status and quality of life measures as well as examining synchrony of change over both short (6 weeks) and intermediate (9 month) ... health Because one goal of the over-all LIDO study was to com-pare Quality of Life (QOL) instruments, several of them were administered These included the Quality of Life in Depression Scale (QLDS) ... scores indicate worse quality of life. 5 WHOQOL-Bref (WHOQOL Group, 1995, 1996) QOL:Rate is a 5-point scale rating quality of life All other scores on 0–100 scale: Overall Quality of Life (QOL:Rate),

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20