báo cáo hóa học:" Psychometric properties of two measures of psychological well-being in adult growth hormone deficiency" pot

... Corresponding author Abstract Background: Psychometric properties of two measures of psychological well-being were evaluated for adults with growth hormone deficiency (GHD): the General Well-being Index, ... finding for the GWBI). This is in line with results of a study in which GH was discontinued in young adults with GHD [45] where a significant increase in...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... (FM) using two criteria: (1) chronic widespread pain and (2) pain upon digital palpa- tion in at least 11 of 18 defined tender point sites [1,2]. Common co-morbid symptoms associated with FM include ... reports psychometric properties of a single-item Sleep Quality numeric rating scale completed by FM patients daily in two clinical trials. Methods Study design and subjects Thi...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 18:20

... examine the measuring properties of the instruments used in the evaluation of health status or HRQOL for the interpretation of the results and for the best applicability of these instruments in ... advantage of providing further information about the health conditions and well-being of the patients in addition to the perspective of the health team, even if that implies...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... clearly c. Cleaning teeth d. Sleeping and relaxing e. Smiling, laughing and showing teeth without embarrassment f. Maintaining usual emotional state without being irritable g. Carrying out major ... (OIDP SC); i.e. summing dichotomized frequency items in terms of (1) affected (including the original categories 1,2,3) and (0) not affected (including the original category 0). In order to...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... enjoyment of life) using 0 (no interference) to 10 (complete inter- ference) rating scales. The items are aggregated into two dimensions, (1) Pain severity index, using the sum of the four items on pain ... reliable instrument for chronic non-cancer pain [13,14,17]. All BPI items are scored using ratin g scales. Four items measure pai n intensity (pain now, average pain, worst p ain, an...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... suggested groupings of items into dimensions for all but six of the 36 items of the DCGM-37 included in this study. The instrument discriminated satisfactorily between diagnoses reflecting treatment ... Society, Karolinska Institutet, Huddinge, Sweden. 2 Department of Pediatric Oncology, The Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden. 3 Department of Medicine, Karolinska In...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 16:20

... in addition to strengthening those of previous studies [24-27], are consistent with other findings in this study including an increase in the positivity of a-SMA staining (i.e. an indicator of ... MDCM compared with infusion of fresh medium. Finally, real-time PCR and Immunofluores- cent staining of infarcted LV myocardium showed that the expression of eNOS, an indicator of...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 16:20

... hyperinfla- tion by maintaining small airway patency and may reduce the patient’s work of breathing by decreasing the drop in alveolar pressure needed to initiate a breath. In addition, inspiratory support, ... challenging application of NPPV may be in patients with ARDS. Studies of NPPV for the treatment of ARDS in adult population have reported failure rates of 50-80% [4...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 03:20

... fixed point of T. Fixed Point Theory and Applications 9 6 M. O. Osilike and Y. Shehu, “Cyclic algorithm for common fixed points of finite family of strictly pseudocontractive mappings of Browder-Petryshyn ... Petryshyn, “Construction of fixed points of nonlinear mappings in Hilbert space,” Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, vol. 20, pp. 197–228, 1967. 2 G. Mari...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 11:20

... and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. 1. Introduction Metric spaces are playing an increasing role in mathematics and the applied sciences. Over the past two decades ... generalizations, of the corresponding results in metric spaces, while in 6the current authors have pointed out that Dhage’s notion of a D-metric space is fundamentally fl...

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