... correlated, and thus provide measures of different aspects of the same broad construct of friendship quality Table Perception of Attachment to Peers as Measured by the Inventory of Parent and Peer Attachment ... & Asher, 1993) was used to measure adolescents’ perceptions of the qualityof their friendship with their closest friend at age 13 Participants rated 40 items measuring six different domains of ... nominations to assess objective peer acceptance However, many aspects of friendship quality are personal and thus perhaps better measured subjectively The use of teens’ self-report of friendship quality...
... relationship between qualityof life data, or some aspects ofqualityof life measures, and the duration of survival in cancer patients Pre-treatment (baseline) qualityof life data appeared ... Prognostic value ofqualityof life scores in a trial of Chemotherapy with or with- http://www.hqlo.com/content/7/1 /102 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 out interferon ... an assessment of the prognostic values of physiologic, morphologic, and qualityof life measures of extent of disease Chest 2000, 117:73-78 Montazeri A, Milroy R, Hole D, McEwen J, Gillis CR: Quality...
... 272 CHAPTER 10QUALITYOF SERVICE IN THE IMS LS semantics are typically used to group an audio and a video stream, as shown in Figure 10. 1 The a=group line carries the semantics of the group ... of the group (LS in this case) and the identifiers of the streams (the a=mid line in the streams) v=0 o=- 28908 3124 28908 3124 IN IP6 108 0::8:800:200C:417A t=0 c=IN IP6 108 0::8:800:200C:417A a=group:LS ... Figure 10. 2 would use the same PDP context (assuming a GPRS access), while the video stream would use its own PDP context v=0 o=- 28908 3124 28908 3124 IN IP6 108 0::8:800:200C:417A t=0 c=IN IP6 108 0::8:800:200C:417A...
... QoL was assessed using the Short Form 36 (SF-36) and severity of SAD was assessed using the Social Phobia Scale (SPS) and the Social Interaction Anxiety (SIAS) Depression was assessed as one aspect ... Journal of Psychiatry 2000, 157 (10) :1606-1613 Dimenas ES, Dahlof CG, Jern SC, Wiklund IK: Defining qualityof life in medicine Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care Supplement 1990, 1:7 -10 10 ... whether changes in the severity of symptomatology of SAD are directly associated with QoL at long-term Page of10 follow-up; and 3) what predictors at baseline are associated with QoL in the long-term...
... and discharge notes The cause of death of patients dying out of hospital was based on an assessment of discharge notes and diagnosis of the two last hospitalisations of the patient All re-admissions ... al.: Patient-reported outcomes aspredictorsof 10- year survival in women after acute myocardial infarction Health and Qualityof Life Outcomes 2 010 8:140 Page 10of10 Submit your next manuscript ... disease were classified as cardiac deaths Non-cardiac death consisted of cancer, stroke, chronic obstructive Page of10 pulmonary disease, and one group classified as ‘other causes of death’ Statistical...
... Qualityof Life Outcomes 2 010, 8 :100 http://www.hqlo.com/content/8/1 /100 21 Julkunen J, Ahlstrom R: Hostility, anger, and sense of coherence aspredictorsof health-related qualityof life Results of ... and the physicianpatient relationship aspredictorsofqualityof life of cardiac patients after rehabilitation Health and Qualityof Life Outcomes 2 010 8 :100 Submit your next manuscript to BioMed ... HRQOL was measured using various instruments It was seen that the disease characteristics are generally less significant, with the exception of the risk score as a measure of the severity of the...
... snapshots of the effects of increasing privatisation of health and home care on the qualityof life of women in each section of Canada [75] It concluded that increasing privatisation of health ... every indicator of general qualityof life and women’s qualityof life as compared to the UK and the US Canada does not perform well in relation to the values on a number of indicators of Denmark ... Physicians /100 ,000 Public Can$ as percentage of GDP (%) Private Can$ as percentage of GDP (%) Total Can$ as percentage of GDP (%) Spending per capita 14 76.2 27627 0.98 9.5 9.2 9.6 100 290 6.9...
... worth, sense of reliability and guidance which has contributed to qualityof life of the elderly in the sub region Also of concern is the increasing record from the central, south and east Africa ... availability of such facilities were core issues of awareness The level of such awareness based on the identified factors stood as the bedrock of the statistical prediction for the significance of the ... their qualityof life To buttress the positions, some of the respondents stressed and asserted as follows: “osi ni je tani moori, owo ni I je mo ba o tan” implying literally that money was the basis...
... personal profiles of the academic staff aspredictorsof professional characteristics which will serve as basis for the improvement of the qualityof higher education and trainings Objectives of the ... includes professors of various ranks: assistant professors, associate professors, and (full) professors, usually tenured (or tenuretrack) in terms of their contract of employment Members of university ... a number of methods and techniques to evaluate the qualityof educational; (3) process of investigation, evaluation of the qualityof educational; and (4) assessment method of some basic educational...
... 1: Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs Theory of Motivation The Maslow diagram is associated with the hierarchy of need theory that Maslow originated circa 1943 According to this theory the most basic ... Performance…………………………………………………………… 106 LIST OF FIGURES Figure Page Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs Theory of Motivation……………… 12 Research Paradigm: Motivational Factors and Teachers’ Job Performance 29 Location of Respondents ... activity 10 In this study, performance of teachers has been perceived as an outcome of motivation The researcher thus invoked Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs Theory of Motivation to underpin the study...
... was significantly and positively associated with HRQOL in healthy school children An increasing degree of GSE was related to an increasing degree of HRQOL for all subscales and total scales of ... Peeters Y, Boersma SN, Koopman HM: Predictorsofqualityof life: a quantitative investigation of the stress-coping model in children with asthma Health & Qualityof Life Outcomes 2008, 6:24 Ravens-Sieberer ... 1981 and has been used in many studies with hundreds of thousands of participants [14] The scale was created to assess a general sense of perceived self-efficacy, with the aim in mind of predicting...
... number of excised cores and larger Domeyer et al Health and Qualityof Life Outcomes 2 010, 8:11 http://www.hqlo.com/content/8/1/11 Page of10 Table Predictors emerging through the assessment of baseline ... higher degree of anxiety/ depression and, consequently, worse health status as measured by EQ-5D TTO and VAS indices Increasing age was associated with worse baseline EQ-5D TTO and VAS indices; ... hyperplasia, ADH and lobular neoplasia, LN) lesions, as well as carcinomas (ductal, in situ, DCIS or invasive, IDC, lobular carcinomas) were excluded from the study, as the follow-up/treatment of...
... peak plasma levels and were also tested at doses equivalent to one-tenth of and tenfold the peak plasma value Drug activity was assessed by sulforhodamine B assay according to the method of Skehan ... phosphoribosyltransferase (HPRT)) The amount of mRNA of each marker was normalized to the endogenous references b -microglobulin and HPRT using Gene Expression Macro Software (Version 1.1) (BioRad) Page of Commercial ... expression of mRNA and was calculated using Gene Expression Macro Software (Version 1.1) (BioRad) The reproducibility of Real-Time PCR results was verified in triplicate, and the coefficient of variation...
... Patients' perceived qualityof cancer care was measured using 31 items obtained from the Picker Institute of Boston, Massachusetts [20,23,24] that measure problems Page of10 (page number not ... different interpretation of the importance of these two predictors The measures of perceived qualityof care (problems with Treatment Information, control of pain/discomfort, control of nausea/vomiting) ... der Maas PJ: Health-related qualityof life: an indicator ofqualityof care? Qual Life Res 1997, 6:363-369 Maisey NR, Norman A, Watson M, Allen MJ, Hill ME, Cunningham D: Baseline qualityof life...
... score of 18 indicates the highest number of comorbid illnesses Methods The Sense of Coherence Scale The Sense of Coherence Scale (SOC-13) was used to estimate the resident's SOC The scale has a ... 164 72.2 63 27.8 227 100 .0 12 48 80 24 7.3 29.3 48.8 14.6 30 24 12. 7 47.6 38.1 1.6 20 78 104 25 8.8 34.4 45.8 11.0 13 27 118 7.9 16.5 3.7 72.0 25 26 39.7 12. 7 6.3 41.3 38 35 10 144 16.7 15.4 4.4 ... temporal stability of the 13-item sense of coherence scale: prospective evidence from the population-based HeSSup study Qualityof Life Research 2007, 16:483-493 Loge JH, Kaasa S, Hjermstad MJ,...
... well-being, not merely confirmation of disease absence Thus, measurement of the impact of oral conditions on qualityof life should be part of the evaluation of oral health needs Clinical indicators ... 26(7):2 Allen PF, McMillan AS, Walshaw D, Locker D: A comparison of the validity of generic- and disease-specific measures in the assessment of oral health-related qualityof life Community Dent ... cultural values of mouth between populations Page 11 of 14 (page number not for citation purposes) Health and Qualityof Life Outcomes 2008, 6 :101 As found in all oral health qualityof life studies,...
... daily or occasionally at the time of the survey were compared to those who did not smoke Alcohol consumption was assessed based on responses to the question "During the past 12 months, how often did ... specific HUI3 attributes The fit of the logistic models was assessed based on the likelihood ratio chi- Page of 11 (page number not for citation purposes) Health and Qualityof Life Outcomes 2007, 5:68 ... partially mediates the impact of chronic conditions on several health outcomes that are important to qualityof life Physical activity of at least 1,000 Kcal per week was associated with relatively...
... 2008, 6:24 identifying predictorsofqualityof life for children with asthma However, future research is necessary to analyse the model and with that predictorsofqualityof life further Although ... relate to qualityof life: A study among patients waiting for PTCA Qualityof life research 2001, 10: 487-501 Echteld MA, Elderen TMT, van der Kamp LJT: Modelling predictorsofqualityof life after ... Discussion The aim of the present study was to further explore predictorsof HRQoL of children with asthma This study is, to our knowledge, the first study that investigated predictorsof HRQoL in children...
... five out of seven of the assessed dimensions [10] Although it has been recommended that the impact of proxy gender in regard to gender of the child should be investigated in QoL research [10] , it ... rate of 61%) The collection of data took place from September 2004 until June 2005, and October until November 2005 Measures The Inventory for Assessing the Qualityof Life (ILC) This measure was ... KINDL, respectively The number of 4th grade students (8 – 10 year) was 505; 6th grade students (10 – 12 years) 462; 8th grade students (12 – 14 years) 492 and 10th grade students (14 – 16 years),...
... peak plasma levels and were also tested at doses equivalent to one-tenth of and tenfold the peak plasma value Drug activity was assessed by sulforhodamine B assay according to the method of Skehan ... phosphoribosyltransferase (HPRT)) The amount of mRNA of each marker was normalized to the endogenous references b -microglobulin and HPRT using Gene Expression Macro Software (Version 1.1) (BioRad) Page of Commercial ... expression of mRNA and was calculated using Gene Expression Macro Software (Version 1.1) (BioRad) The reproducibility of Real-Time PCR results was verified in triplicate, and the coefficient of variation...