... age ofthe child Quantitative information i.e the number of cigarettes smoked both of mothers and fathers, was obtained in Q0 for thefirst two months, Q1 and Q2 for thefirstand second year of ... during thefirst and/ or second year oflifeofthe child Any wheezing Wheezing and/ or disturbing cough at night not associated with a common cold during thefirst and/ or second year oflife Statistics ... 16, 12 and 11%, respectively Any exposure to ETS during thefirst two years oflifeofthe children was reported for 25% ofthe children In families with smoking fathers 34% ofthe mothers smoked...
... validated The SOFA score was therefore calculated daily during the course of sepsis, and was preferred to the SAPS II as a predictive model of organ dysfunction and outcome The survival of patients ... PCT kinetics andthe appropriateness ofthe first- line antibiotic therapy was investigated through the comparison ofthe ΔPCT values A multivariate analysis was conducted following the same rules ... analysis The main baseline characteristics ofthe included patients are presented in Table The main source of infection was found to be the lung (51.7%) In more than one-half ofthe cases of Page of...
... and 12 months old The samples were sent to the Parasitology Lab at the NVH, Oslo, with information about date of sampling, dog identity (name, date of birth, breed) andthe name and address of ... July 2002 The breeders were asked to provide a faecal sample from the bitch and a pooled sample from the litter when the puppies were about and months old, and to recruit the new owners ofthe puppies ... deer and red deer) the prevalence of Cryptosporidium was found to range between 0% and 6.2% in the different species, andthe prevalence of Giardia was found to be between 1.7% and 15.5% in the...
... billion during thefirst half of 2011, slightly behind the EUR 55 billion recorded in thefirst half of 2010 Long-term UCITS attracted EUR 87 billion during thefirst half ofthe year, down from ... Equity Balanced Total Equity & Balanced Funds of funds (4) Other Total (excl Ireland & Netherlands) of w hich guaranteed funds Total (incl Ireland & Netherlands) 36,733 in No in % (3) in No (1 No full ... regarding the strength ofthe global economic recovery and increasing tensions in the euro area, which sparked lower demand for equity and bond funds Differences in totals between quarterly and monthly...
... Funds of funds (4) Other Total (excl Ireland & Netherlands) of w hich guaranteed funds Total (incl Ireland & Netherlands) 35,766 (1 No full data breakdo wn is available fo r Ireland andthe Netherlands; ... during the quarter (4.1%), and net assets of balanced funds reduced by 2.1 percent Funds of funds registered an increase in net assets of 1.7 percent during the quarter Over thefirst half of 2012, ... percent over thefirst half of 2012 Seventeen countries recorded an increase in net assets of UCITS in thefirst six months of 2012 All the large domiciles enjoyed growth in UCITS, with Ireland increasing...
... Professor ofthe History of Science and Medicine at the University of Chicago Among his publications are Darwin andthe Emergence of Evolutionary Theories of Mind and Behavior, The Meaning of ... emphasized both the spiritual need ofthe individual freely to construct the self (an idea at the root of Schelling’s idealism) andthe destiny of that self in an ancient and fabled fatherland (the mythical ... all ofthe major works of Humboldt, as well as a great many ofthe minor ones, and, of course, he always had Goethe by his side.15 The Aesthetic Science of Humboldt, Kant, Schelling, and Goethe...
... depends on the energy content ofthe universe andthe values ofthe other cosmological parameters We illustrate the abundance of halos for our standard choice ofthe CDM model with m = 0:3 (see the ... radius R and is zero outside, the smoothed perturbation ÿeld measures the uctuations in the mass in spheres of radius R The normalization ofthe present power spectrum is often speciÿed by the R ... dramatic e ect on the ionization state and temperature ofthe rest ofthe gas in the universe Nuclear fusion releases ∼7×106 eV per hydrogen atom, andThe use of this term in the cosmological...
... 5-18 years and 254 parents of children aged 2-18 years It was the mother who answered the questionnaire in 92.52% ofthe sample, and it was the father in 7.48% ofthe sample No parent in the patient ... questionnaire in 89.5% ofthe sample, it was the father in 4.57% ofthe sample, and it was someone else in 6.28% ofthe sample Distribution of all participants in terms of gender and age group is shown ... as the sum ofthe items divided by the number of items answered in the Emotional, Social, and School Functioning Subscales The sequential validation procedure ofthe original U S version of the...
... time Some ofthe time All ofthe time Knee pain present at night: None ofthe time Some ofthe time All ofthe time Knee pain worse on movement: None ofthe time Some ofthe time All ofthe time ... randomised trials and clinical practice The lack of standardisation in the choice of instruments limits the generalisability of results Furthermore, ofthe five instruments included in the review that ... measures of health and quality oflife [2] Only three ofthe five instruments that incorporate the views of patients have been adequately evaluated for reliability and validity Of these, the Knee...
... scores for the DQOL andthe D-39S and higher scores for the RAND-12 # PHC: physical health composite; MHC: mental health composite the RAND-12 the discriminative ability ofthe DQOL andthe D-39S ... estimated a standard error of measurement (SEM) which accounts for reliability ofthe DQOL and standard deviation of patients under the investigation SEM was estimated by a standard deviation ofthe DQOL ... ofthe DQOL against the D-39S andthe RAND-12 In general, domain scores ofthe DQOL were moderately correlated with the D-39S (except sexual functioning) andthe RAND-12 PHC and MHC, with Pearson's...
... questionnaire is a short form of a 51-item survey designed to assess the influence of visual impairment on health-related quality oflife (HRQL) The content ofthe original questionnaire was ... letters, another lost 39 letters, andthe other 37 patients lost between 10 and 27 letters) Analyses comparing subgroups of patients with different levels of vision loss within this group of patients ... Diabetologia 2001, 44(2):156-163 The Diabetes Control and Complications Trial (DCCT) Research Group: The effect of intensive treatment of diabetes on the development and progression of long-term complications...
... symptoms of menorrhagia and metrorrhagia, bulk symptoms of pressure, heaviness or discomfort in the pelvic area, back, flank, or leg, and urinary frequency It is the existence and level of bother of ... Health and Quality ofLife Outcomes 2008, 6:99 Background Uterine leiomyoma, or uterine fibroids (UF), are the most common neoplasms ofthe female pelvis, occurring in 20– 25% of women of reproductive ... developed to evaluate the symptoms of uterine fibroids and their impact on HRQL The UFS-QOL has been used in a number of studies of uterine fibroid treatment, including studies of uterine artery...
... Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Health and Quality ofLife Outcomes 2008, 6:35 the health-related quality oflifeof parents/guardians The score is computed as the sum ofthe 20 ... cross-cultural adaptation, the group of specialists stated that the concept ofthe impact of childhood cancer on the quality oflifeofthe families used for development ofthe original instrument was ... following thefirst interview The health condition ofthe children was clinically similar between thefirstandthe second interviews Cross-cultural adaptation During the cross-cultural adaptation, the...
... from the scale [16], and a rating scale may not be used by respondents in the way it was intended by the developer ofthe scale [15] Thus, the assumptions about both the quality ofthe measures and ... from the percentage of missing values for each item and distribution of item responses [20,21] Range of measurement was further tested based on the percentage of scores at the extremes ofthe ... 1.9%) The race/ethnicity ofthe total sample was Asian Respondents of parent self-report consisted of mother (n = 1250, 86.0%), father (n = 159, 10.9%), grandmothers (n = 5, 0.3%), grandfathers...
... development ofthe study question to the revision ofthe final manuscript Each ofthe four authors has made a significant contribution at each phase ofthe study AQLQ12+ Standardised version ofthe Asthma ... function and environmental stimuli) are the means ofthe responses to the questions in each ofthe domains Symptom and Medication Diary Each morning and evening patients scored how much they were bothered ... Modification ofthe AQLQ(S) Both the AQLQ [1] andthe Paediatric Asthma Quality ofLife Questionnaire (PAQLQ) [2] were developed by asking adults and children respectively about the problems and limitations...
... drafting ofthe document and revising it critically for important intellectual content PM, as the author ofthe QUALIOST® questionnaire, helped in the design ofthe analysis andthe interpretation and ... 93.3% of patients and were therefore included in the analyses ofthe hypothesised structure and internal consistency reliability Longitudinal data were available for 80.9% ofthe patients for the ... Validation ofthe hypothesised structure ofthe QUALIOST® (see Table 1) Analysis ofthe cross-sectional psychometric properties by country included validation ofthe questionnaires structure and internal...
... Range of measurement for the PedsQL™ was determined based on the percentage of scores at the extreme ofthe scaling range KolmogorovSmirnov tests were used to assess whether the distributions of ... between parents' own QOL 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 ... contributed to the design ofthe study; interpretation ofthe data and analyses; and revised the article for important intellectual content All authors gave final approval ofthe version to be...
... after their first session, and within thefirst months of replacement therapy Quality of therapeutic practices The appropriateness of pre-dialysis therapeutic practices was assessed in terms of ... quality of life; second, the earlier the referral to a nephrologist, the better the control of symptoms, problems and effects of CKD; third, a lack of association between the number of nephrology ... as biological and therapeutic data covered the observation period from the day ofthefirst nephrology consultation to dialysis onset, and were used to evaluate the quality of therapeutic practices...
... was also conducted for the summary scores ofthe SF-12 and MOS-HIV using a series of dichotomized variables for CD4 count, SDM score, number of bed days, and number ofdaysof reduced activity CD4 ... patient-reported CD4, symptom score, number ofdays spent in bed, and number of reduced activity As hypothesized, symptom score, number ofdays spent in bed, and number ofdaysof reduced activity were all ... -0.10 number ofdays spent in bed in the past three months (0 days vs any days) The p-values for the PHS and PCS were 0.001 and 0.003 respectively: MHS and MCS were not significant (0.092 and 0.104...
... reliability and validity ofthe Chinese version ofthe FIM This is also thefirst report of psychometric properties ofthe FIM in a pediatric asthma sample and a pediatric heart disease sample The FIM ... measurement and has been adapted for use in other countries The development ofthe Chinese version ofthe FIM will not only fill the gap in the parent HRQOL assessment Chen et al Health and Quality ofLife ... conceptualized and designed the study, acquired, analyzed and interpreted the data, and revised the manuscript YZ and ZH conceptualized and designed the study, acquired the data, and revised the manuscript...