RESEARC H Open AccessFeasibility, reliability and validity of health-relatedquality of life questionnaire among adultpulmonary tuberculosis patients in urbanUganda: cross-sectional studyHarriet M Babikako1*, Duncan Neuhauser2, Achilles Katamba3, Ezekiel Mupere4Abst[r]
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The Parent-Infant Relationship Global Assessment Scale (PIR-GAS) signifies a conceptually relevant development in the multi-axial, developmentally sensitive classification system DC:0-3R for preschool children. However, information about the reliability and validity of the PIR-GAS is rare.
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RESEARCH Open AccessValidation of a proposed WOMAC short form forpatients with hip osteoarthritisAmaia Bilbao1*, José M Quintana2, Antonio Escobar3, Carlota Las Hayas2and Miren Orive2AbstractBackground: The aims of this study were to propose a Spanish Western Ontario and McMaste[r]
Authors’ contributionsBNP conceived the study design and contributed to collect the data and toredact the manuscript. MSM conducted the statistical analysis. MDSP, RBGand JGC contributed to draft the manuscript. VMV is the main researcher ofthe study, and he contributed to conce[r]
disseminating the results of biomedical research in our lifetime."Sir Paul Nurse, Cancer Research UKYour research papers will be:available free of charge to the entire biomedical communitypeer reviewed and published immediately upon acceptancecited in PubMed and archived[r]
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The methodology emphasises the cross-cultural adapta-tion of the Child-OIDP and its psychometric testing fortest-retest reliability, internal consistency and constructvalidity. Informed consent was sought and obtained fromthe parents of the participants. The[r]
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used, results from all countries are directly comparable.Questionnaires were completed in an electronic data cap-ture device (ECD), which ensures that all questions areanswered in full. Although ECD technology is becomingan increasing part of clinical trials, it is not yet widelyavailable,
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was elderly (65+ year-old) residents of Gangneung City, South Korea. Twenty two of the 222senior day centres were randomly selected.Results: 687 people were invited and 668 participated in the study (response rate: 97.2%). Thestandardized Cronbach's alpha coefficient was 0.85. T[r]
its equivalence in an applied situation, the last stage of theadaptation process was to test the pre-final version in apilot study. A health professional experienced in treatingchronic childhood diseases administered the question-naire to the parents, asking them to consider each ques-tion in[r]
Background: The 'Schedule for the Evaluation of Individual Quality of Life – Direct Weighting'(SEIQoL-DW) is an instrument developed to measure individual quality of life. Although thisinstrument has been used in numerous studies, data on validity and reliabilit[r]
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received 8 weeks of treatment, however, parents scoredclose to the population mean. This study provided amore complete clinical picture tha n if information hadbeen collected from only one perspective on percei vedhealth. The figures from these studies, and another studyusing a differe[r]
Methods: Data from 5 South American centers participating in an international, longitudinal,observational study were analyzed. Patients were ≥ 1 month post transplant and on mycophenolatemofetil (MMF) and a calcineurin inhibitor. Patients completed the GSRS, GIQLI, and Psycholog[r]
functioning' and 'communication' subscales should beused disjointedly only for descriptive or exploratory anal-yses, as they did not achieve a alpha coefficient of 0.70 inthe total sample. A study carried out in San Diego and LosAngeles (USA) with 339 families of individu[r]