examining the factors supporting women apos s quality of life

... implement the provisions of the Convention through the exercise of women s political rights: Examining the factors supporting women s quality of life: indicator analyses from five nations The Committee ... private assistance through local authorities A government system provides “Cash Benefits for Closely Related Persons” through the special assistance system for a maximum 60 days in case of serious illness ... fairness In terms of contemporary analyses of women s quality of life, these policy changes in Canada—and elsewhere—have been considered for their impact on Canadian women s quality of life [49,50,99]...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 11:20

... scale [12] This scale was selected because it has been successfully applied to acute illnesses, whereas other quality of life scales, such as the SF-36 Health Survey, are better suited to assess ... episodes yearly in the United States [1] On average, each episode is associated with 1.2 days of missed work or classes [1] The cost of treating ambulatory patients with symptoms of dysuria is ... treatment algorithms exist for the empiric treatment of acute cystitis [2,3] In most cases, these guidelines suggest treatment based upon symptoms of disease in otherwise healthy adult women and recommend...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... This latter finding suggests that a greater use of the ED by elders is associated with dimensions of the QOL other than the HRQOL, such as dissatisfaction with social support, personal relationships ... OPQOL subscore respectively For each health outcome, comparisons between subjects scoring in the lowest quartiles of these indices and the rest of the sample were performed by means of the chi-squared ... nutritional status but also generic QOL [44] It must be emphasised that a poor QOL is associated with several acknowledged predictors of ED admissions such as depressive symptoms, lack of social support,...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... corresponding associations with Symptoms or Activity domains Some limitations of our study should be mentioned First, the cross-sectional design of the study does not allow us to determine a causal ... comorbidities Analyses were performed using the statistical package SPSS 11.5 (2002, SPSS Inc., Chicago, United States) Results Most patients (93%) were male and the mean age was 68 (SD: 9) years (range: ... interviewers administered questionnaires to patients HRQoL was measured using the validated Spanish version of St George s Respiratory Questionnaire (SGRQ) [17,18] This is a disease-specific,...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 01:21

... with subscale scores This provides evidence for the construct validity of the subscales as a measure of health status Known groups validity testing was done to compare the SF-12 and MOS-HIV physical ... complete the SF-12 The response rate for both the MOS-HIV and SF-12 was 100%, with no missing answers for any of the questions The symptom score questionnaire also had a very high response rate, ... translators, disease-specific specialists, and other members of the research team In our study, the study team, comprised of researchers, nurses, and community advisory board members reviewed the concepts...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 20:21

... performed using the SAS software [41] A Poisson regression model was used to assess the association between the predictor variables and outcomes A backward stepwise procedure was used to include ... Nevertheless, it is the first study demonstrating that the number of siblings and household overcrowding were associated with childrens OHRQoL In this respect the present study differs from the others ... variety of other personal, social and environmental variables, suggesting that the former was mediated by the others These results corroborated the importance of the social diagnosis for the planning...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 16:20

... questionnaires Statistical analysis Statistical analysis was performed with the Windows 13.0 version of SPSS software (SPSS Inc., Chicago, IL, USA) Values are expressed as mean ± S. D or percentages For the ... in osteoporosis [5] All together, theses factors have an important impact on the quality of life of osteoporotic patients Therefore, measuring the quality of life in postmenopausal women is important ... questionnaires have been developed to measure QOL in osteoporosis The most widely used are the Osteoporosis Quality of Life Questionnaire (OQLQ) [6,7], the Osteoporosis Assessment Questionnaire...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... such factors, we used the Hassles and Uplifts Scales, two validated scales of everyday stressors that focus on relatively minor events of everyday life [16,17] The Hassles Scale consists of 117 ...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... Range of measurement for the PedsQL™ was determined based on the percentage of scores at the extreme of the scaling range KolmogorovSmirnov tests were used to assess whether the distributions of ... This measure has established psychometric properties, and has been used extensively in research [34] Treatment of results and statistical analyses The PedsQL™ 4.0 measure was scored as described ... ratings and their ratings of their child 's QOL These results are consistent with the findings of Eiser, Eiser, and Stride [22] and Goldbeck and Melches [23] This correlation was only statistically...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... quality of life as well as the tools developed to assess the quality of life of Alzheimer 's patients Therefore, this toolkit can be used to assess the quality of life for Alzheimer 's patients in ... effectiveness of some non-pharmacological interventions to improve the quality of life of Alzheimer s patients and their caregivers New contributions of the thesis: This dissertation was the first systematic ... patients rated their quality of life higher than caregivers assessed and there was aunificationbetween these two assessments Quality of life of patients is generally low, achieving only 47.5% (as assessed...

Ngày tải lên: 25/07/2014, 11:36

... estimating propensity score Statistical analysis Propensity score matching Unlike in randomized trials, use of therapies in observational studies is not from random assignment and thus Page of ... analysis After matching, the differences of the QOL summary score and the nine domain scores at each visit from their values at the matching baseline visit were used as the study outcomes To ... analysis, a multiple logistic regression method was used For the HAART users, we selected the last visit before HAART initiation as the matching visits For the HAART naïve HIV positive women, ...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 05:20

... presents the descriptive statistics for the physical and mental health summary scores as well as all domains of the MOS-HIV and SF-12v2 The mean MOS-HIV physical health summary score was 47.3 (SD ... MHS of the MOS-HIV and the PCS and MCS of the SF-12v2 were assessed for normality Correlations between baseline physical and mental health summary scores of both measures were calculated using ... using SPSS v17; Pearson correlation coefficients were calculated because of the lack of skew in the distributions of the summary scores Pearson correlation coefficients were used to investigate the...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 05:21

... due the superstrate influence of Standard English Nevertheless, the in situ form is also widely used in SCE It is easy to attribute WH-in situ to the influence of the substrate languages (Chinese ... 1976:464) discussed earlier, with an added emphasis on the context of the 25 discourse placing salience on the entity in focus Semantic focus can be seen as the “part of the sentence that answers the ... that the bulk of the data in the GSSEC (Grammar of Spoken Singapore English Corpus) corpus is most characteristic of (Ansaldo, 2004:129) The GSSEC was later incorporated into the ICE-SIN corpus...

Ngày tải lên: 13/10/2015, 16:41

... (2%) were observed in a previous sample [33] The AIM-C consists of core scales to assess child (8 items) and family (10 items) HRQL The measure also consists of multi-item scales to assess medication ... caregivers at 30 ± days after the last dose of study medication to assess any new or ongoing AEs Health-related quality of life and medication satisfaction measures As secondary objectives of this study, ... by the subject 's caregiver at baseline and at week The MSS is a nonvalidated 11-question survey designed to assess caregiver satisfaction with the efficacy and tolerability of MTS The questions...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:06

... at school’’ was not as distinct as for the baseline assessment in the Risk avoidance domain Weaker correlations were seen for the changes from baseline analyses The assessment of the item-sub-domain ... parents’ diseases (such as ADHD) could not be assessed because these data were not obtained Conclusions The strength of this analysis is the large sample of patient data from outside of the United ... United States This large sample size together with the longitudinal assessment of the questionnaire makes this analysis unique Previous evaluations of the CHIP-CE used only cross-sectional samples...

Ngày tải lên: 12/02/2014, 19:20

... clinical, psychosocial and behavioral characteristics Extensive battery of structured health interviews, assessments and blood tests Follow up assessment after years and years Cross-sectional ... healthier life expectancy Methodology: Data from the baseline survey of participants in the Singapore Longitudinal Ageing Studies (SLAS) Thesis: The present trend of functional disability is increasing ... Aims: Assess salient health and social needs of elderly Singaporeans Identify vital areas that are likely to present the best avenues and opportunities for success in achieving longer...

Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 06:20

... drop-outs, as well as ethnicity Research should also compare patient results with those of women of the same age from the general population, as many of the survivors’ symptoms are those of menopause ... Nevertheless, the process of response shift has also been found in the partners s [86] Although a definitive conclusion on the clinical significance of response shift cannot be drawn from existing ... (case) QoL cancer Survivors 41 (controls) SF-12 ≥5 60 SF-36, 65 QoL cancer Survivors FACT-QoL EORTC QLQ-C30 Self-assessed (physical, psychological, socioeconomic, symptoms, menopause) Self-assessed...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 15:20

... countries that have demonstrated the high reliability and validity of these scales (12) The instrument measures several dimensions of health and assesses the impact of diseases and the benefits of ... linear regression analysis was used to compare the score for each disease to the score of those without the specific disease, though they reported other diseases on the checklist This was followed ... of specific diseases on the areas assessed by SF-36® (20, 21); however, few studies have assessed and compared the impact of various different morbidities on HRQOL (22, 23) Alonso et al assessed...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 21:20

... three thematic sets of questions: health related quality of life, constituted using the SF-36 and sets of socioeconomic and demographic characteristics The dependent variables were the scores of the ... 40 countries The instrument allows the measurement of various health dimensions and can assess the impact of disease as well as the benefits of treatment It is also a good predictor of mortality ... The ISA-SP project was approved by the Ethics Committees of the School of Public Health at the University of S o Paulo (USP), the School of Medical Science at the State University of Campinas...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 21:20