server side validation of the completed form

... raises the question of whether these sim-ilarities remain or not in other different cultures The demonstration of cultural invariance of the core attitudes to aging could lead to the possibility of ... in any of the 44 items in the Brazilian sample The analysis of the pooled international data indicated the need of item refinement, which resulted in a 38-item version to be tested in the field ... examine the performance of items in the Brazilian dataset Results Demographics Table 1 describes the socio-demographic characteristics of both the Brazilian and the international samples Note that the

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 22:20

... comment by the instrument author, the Korean translations of the PedsQL™ Family Information Form was revised and accepted by the instru-ment author All the results of phases were reported to the instrument ... 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 ... sum-mary score, the mean is computed as the sum of the items divided by the number of items answered in the emo-tional, social, and school functioning subscales If more than 50% of the items in

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 22:20

... consecutively enrolled They all received the RAOS, the SF-36, the HAQ and four subscales of the AIMS2 twice during their stay for test of validity and responsiveness Test-retest reliability of the RAOS questionnaire ... of the four different questionnaires are given in Figure 3 Comparison of the RAOS to the SF-36, the HAQ and the AIMS2 Validity When comparing the frequency of missing baseline data between the ... are based on frequency of the difficulty and the SF-36 and the RAOS response alternatives concerns intensity of the diffi-culty The subscale QOL was the least responsive of the RAOS instrument As

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... to the PRE module The goodness-of-fit of the data to the questionnaire structure was rea-sonable given the limited data Bentler’s CFI was 0.99 for the PRE module and 0.88 for the POST module; the ... (SIV) All patients who completed at least one of the three SIVs and one POST module assessment were included in the analysis Table 1 The structure of the PRE module of the Self-Injection Assessment ... extension trial of the long-term safety and efficacy of this drug The SIAQ PRE module was self-completed before the first self-injection, and the POST module was self-completed following each of three

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... now, validation of the Japanese ver-sion has not been conducted The aim of this study was to demonstrate the reliabil-ity, validreliabil-ity, and feasibility of the Japanese version of the PedsQL ... surgery (n = 88; 35.9%) Off-treatment status means the patient completed all therapy by the time of the assessment (n = 155; 63.3%) In this study, half of the patients had been off treatment for over ... half of the guardians rated their economic level as‘low’ because most mothers had to quit their job to take care of their children There was no statistically significant difference in the ratio of

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... diagnosis, types of PD treatments and whether they experienced off-time In addition, the following instruments were used in the online portion of the study: 1) Short Form-12 version 2 (SF-Form-12v2) ... Conclusions The results of the current study provided preliminary evidence of the domain structure of the Revised SCOPA-DC Although use of the Revised SCOPA-DC in future studies is needed to confirm the ... predict off-time of the Revised SCOPA-DC were then assessed Results: Based on input from PD patients, the Revised SCOPA-DC included several format changes and the addition of non-motor symptoms The

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... in the decisions throughout the process of development and finalisation of the questionnaire They gave their approval at each of the milestones of the development and finalisation process The ... more highly correlated with the items of the DEQ (range: -0.05-0.83), indicating the concurrent validity of the IDEEL (Table 3) The strength of the associations between the IDEEL dimensions and ... comprehensive evaluation of the burden of the dry eye condition on patients The assumption about the pre-defined structure of the IDEEL as 3 distinct modules and the lack of data from PCA and Multi-trait

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... diseases differ in their age of onset, their rate of progression and their pattern of weakness which in turn dictates the nature and extent of the disability that they cause The disability caused ... provide unique insights into the actual impact of MD on their lives While the UK quotes were the subject of qualitative analysis for the construction of the original INQoL, they have not been previously ... on the impact of MD on these life domains to allow respondents to provide greater detail of their experiences and include information not tapped by the close ended questions The UK version of

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... affect the oral health related quality of life of preschool children and their parents Preschool education constitutes the first step of the Turkish education system and covers the education of the ... shows the results of descriptive analyses of characteristics of the parents and children in the study sample (n=121) Of the 121 parents, 77.7 % (n= 94) were mothers, 48.8 % (n= 59) had formal ... according to the comments made by parents and expert panel members in order to clarify the content of the questionnaire The Turkish Trang 9consensus version of the scale was obtained and it was then

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... analyses the first full version and final short version of the instrument were tested on the non-imputed dataset (N=204) Listwise deletion of missing data on the basis of the 18 items in the short ... was 0.955, near the cut-off value of 95, and SRMR was well below the cut-off value of 0.08 All indices indicated that the model not systematically linked to the five dimensions of well-being was ... the Normal Theory Weighted Least Square χ2 statistic is not surprising given its sensitivity to sample size Together the analyses showed that the underlying factors of the items were indeed the

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 16:20

... calculated according to the recom-mended 10:1 ratio of the number of subjects to the num-ber of test items [18] The final study sample consisted of 205 patients attending the Pain Clinic (Santander, ... battery of questionnaires for completion All patients completed these instruments on the day of the visit These included a pain form for demographic and pain-related variables, including the translated ... (SF 36), the Pain Catas-trophising Score (PCS) and the Fibromyalgia Impact Questionnaire (FIQ) Translation of the CPAQ Two researchers, who were aware of the objectives of the CPAQ, did the first

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 16:20

... be the basis of the comparison between the stem form factors of various provenances became the basis of the estima-tion of provenance diversificaestima-tion in respect of the stem form factor The ... On the basis of the analysis of variance, with the previous test of homogeneity of variance, it was found that the observed differences in the mean values of the breast height form factor of ... populations The authors of the present study are of the opinion that their results permit to formulate the hypothesis about specific properties of larch as a species the tree form factor and tapering of

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 10:22

... standards of the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 1983 Ethical approval for the study was obtained from the sci-entific committee of the Department of Psychiatry of the University of Athens ... well as in a group of American women after childbirth [31] Aim of the study and research hypotheses The aim of the present study was to examine the validity and reliability of the WHOQOL-100 Greek ... [15] The project originally started in 15 different sites around the world, with the use of common protocols that were agreed on the basis of consensus The diversity of national languages and the

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 23:21

... independent of the treatment (one could even say inde-pendent of 'fashionable treatment') On the other hand, the intake of medication and the suffering of side effects belong to the reality of patients ... example, introduction, procedure of the ses-sion, technical aspects) At the beginning of each focus group, the procedure of the session was explained, and the concept of the ICF was presented in lay ... experience of patients The current version of the Comprehensive ICF Core Set for RA includes 76 categories at the 2nd, 8 categories at the 3rd, and 12 categories at the 4th level of the classification

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 08:22

... spectrum of functioning of patients with CWP The objective of the study was to add evidence to the validation of the Comprehensive ICF Core Set for CWP from the patient perspective The specific ... The objective of the present study was to add evidence to the validation of the Comprehensive ICF Core Set for CWP from the perspective of patients with FM The specific aims were to explore the ... text and 15% of the identified concepts (of the first health professional) by a second health professional The degree of agreement between the two health professionals regarding the linked ICF

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 14:20

... and so the highest possible score is 100 (the higher the score, the greater the impact of the syndrome on the person) The Italian version of the FIQ has been previ-ously validated [21] The SF-36 ... of more than 0.7 are com-monly considered markers of a high degree of reliability We then examined convergent validity by correlating the scores of the index with the other measures used in the ... led to the retrieval of 5431 articles, of which 409 were Trang 3selected on the basis of their titles, abstracts and keywords.After reading all of these abstracts, 134 full-text versions of the

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 14:22

... assess the sub-ject's (a) awareness of the mental illness, (b) awareness of the effects of medication, and (c) awareness of the conse-quences of the mental illness were assigned A score of one ... 0.01) Given the results obtained, these twosubscales were considered acceptable for the purpose of the research [23,24] For the Taiwanese version of the BCIS, the alpha coefficients for the reflective ... (PCA) on the correlation matrix of the 15 items of the Taiwanese version of the BCIS To clarify the inter-pretation, a varimax orthogonal rotation was employed The exploratory approach of this

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:22

... performance among the public officials Objectives of the study Studies on job performance have adopted various different measures in capturing the performance construct The inconsistencies of these ... of the items The respondents have been trained to evaluate employees based on the items and therefore OCB items in the performance appraisal were considered as task instead of contextual performance ... performance of the public officials (Morrison, 2000) Taken together, Kim (2006) and Lee, Nam, Park, and Lee (2006) strongly suggested that research on job performance of public officials is considered...

Ngày tải lên: 11/09/2013, 11:44

... overview of the rest of the paper The rest of the paper consists of four chapters as follows: Chapter (Review of literature) provides the theoretical background of the study The focus of this ... method, the emphasis of which is on the learning of the rules of the language, not on the acquisition of language skills This is obviously manifested in their teaching methods 3.2.2 The 10th -form ... find out the best way of learning reading Only 16% choose searching for reading materials on the Internet Besides their effort, they can’t deny the role of the teachers who often help them much...

Ngày tải lên: 29/01/2014, 14:44

... In the first step of the enzymatic reaction, a nucleophilic attack is performed on the anomeric carbon of the sugar substrate by the carboxylate of the Asp54 acting as the primary nucleophile, forming ... anomeric carbon of fructose The leaving group is carboxylate of Asp54 Dimerization The asymmetric units of the crystals of both the apo and complexed form of the enzyme consist of dimers with ... cylindrical with the ‘funnel’ shape channel inside of it, which resembles the shape of a fishtrap The active site is located at the bottom of the axial funnel created by the interblade loops and the loops...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 00:21