PSYCHOMETRIC PROPERTIES OF THE CHINESE VERSION OF THE FATIGUE SCALE-ADOLESCENT

The availability of a valid and reliable instrument that accurately assesses the level of fatigue among adolescent cancer survivors is crucial before any appropriate interventions to reduce their fatigue can be appropriately planned and evaluated.

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RESEARCH Open AccessThe Chinese version of the Pediatric Quality ofLife Inventory™ (PedsQL™) Family ImpactModule: cross-cultural adaptation andpsychometric evaluationRuoqing Chen1,2, Yuantao Hao1*, Lifen Feng1, Yingfen Zhang3and Zhuoyan Huang4AbstractBackground: A pediatr[r]

Health Psychology, Bute Medical School, University of St-Andrews, UKEmail: Siyang Yuan - s.yuan@chs.dundee.ac.uk; Ruth Freeman - r.e.freeman@chs.dundee.ac.uk; Satu Lahti - satu.lahti@oulu.fi; Ffion Lloyd-Williams - F.Lloydwilliams@liverpool.ac.uk; Gerry Humphris* - gmh4@st-and.ac.uk* Correspo[r]

tional work on particular psychometric properties, evenwhere some studies have already been conducted, giventhat the instruments are being used in the context of rou-tine outcome measurement – e.g., inter-rater reliability(given that a number of raters may b[r]

strictly speaking exploratory factor analysis should beused to determine the original factor structure of aninstrument, and confirmatory factor analysis used todetermine how well an a priori-defined factor structurefits data, it is common in the literature to see exploratoryfact[r]

feasibility of the Generic Core Scales for general Hungarian children. Minimal to moderate ceiling effects and nofloor effects were found on the Generic Core Scales. We observed stronger ceiling than floor effects in the Car diacModule. Most of the scales sh[r]

Maria L Ramos-Jorge - mlrjorge@hotmail.com; James W Varni - jvarni@archmail.tamu.edu; Paul J Allison - paul.allison@mcgill.ca* Corresponding author AbstractBackground: The use of health-related quality of life (HRQOL) measurements has been increasedprogressively in health survey[r]

2Department of Neurology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Linkou, Taiwan, 3Chang-Gung University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan and 4Department of Nursing, Chang Gung Institute of Technology, Tao-Yuan, TaiwanEmail: Yen-Chu Huang - deepblue@adm.cgmh.org.tw; Jun-Yu Fan -[r]

1, Didier Bouhassira5and Manoel J Teixeira1AbstractBackgroud: It has been shown that different symptoms or symptom combinations of neuropathic pain (NeP) maycorrespond to different mechanistic backgrounds and respond differently to treatment. The Neuropathic PainSymptom Inventory (NPSI[r]

The Cancer Rehabilitation Evaluation System (CARES) is a quality of life (QOL) and needs assessment instrument of US origin that was developed in the 90’s. Since November 2012 the copyright and user fee were abolished and the instrument became publicly available the present study aims to reinvestiga[r]

Maria L Ramos-Jorge - mlrjorge@hotmail.com; James W Varni - jvarni@archmail.tamu.edu; Paul J Allison - paul.allison@mcgill.ca* Corresponding author AbstractBackground: The use of health-related quality of life (HRQOL) measurements has been increasedprogressively in health survey[r]

RESEARC H Open AccessEvaluation of oral health-related quality oflife among Sudanese schoolchildren usingChild-OIDP inventoryNazik M Nurelhuda1,2*, Mutaz F Ahmed3, Tordis A Trovik4, Anne N Åstrøm1,2AbstractBackground: Information on oral health-related quality of life, in addition to c[r]

New York: Guilford Press; 1979. 10. Shek DTL: Measurement of pessimism in Chinese adoles-cents: The Chinese Hopelessness Scale. Soc Behav Personality1993, 21:107-120.11. Cheung YB, Khoo KS, Thumboo J, Wee J, Goh C: Validation of theEnglish and Chinese[r]

score was commonly seen. From a clinical perspective,this finding might be taken to imply that many peopleconsidered that their relapse management could nothave been better. This could, of course, be due to anumber of reasons, for example, patients may not havewished to be critical abo[r]

Conclusions: The GA-VAS is capable of validly and effectively capturing a reduction in anxiety as quickly as 24 hours post-dose.Single-item visual analog scales (VASs) have been used inpsychological assessment since the early 20th century andhave subsequently been employed succe[r]

For the OIDP inventory to be administered among olderadults 50 years and above in Tanzania, translation intoSwahili language was mandatory (see additional file 1).Kiswahili is the national and official language in Tanzaniaand almost all (95%) Tanzanians speak the language pro-fi[r]

17. Lohr KN, Aaronson NK, Alonso J, Burnam MA, Patrick DL, Perrin EB,Roberts JA: Evaluating quality-of-life and health status instru-ments: development of scientific review criteria. Clin Ther1996, 18(5):979-92.18. McGraw KO, Wong SP: Forming inferences about some intra-class correlati[r]

cations for the Chinese literary imagination. At around the same time, Wang Meng published his Xingjiang stories Zai Yili (In Yili), which, while recounting his experience in exile in the remote northwest, intro-duces the unique cultures of the Uygurs[r]

ries, the wording of category options and the use of all-point (where all categories are defined) or end-point(where only end-points are defined) scales [1,2]. Themajority of health status and patient-reported outcomemeasures use all-point defined scales with betwe[r]