pregnancy birth and the first days of life

... age of the child Quantitative information i.e the number of cigarettes smoked both of mothers and fathers, was obtained in Q0 for the first two months, Q1 and Q2 for the first and second year of ... during the first and/ or second year of life of the child Any wheezing Wheezing and/ or disturbing cough at night not associated with a common cold during the first and/ or second year of life Statistics ... 16, 12 and 11%, respectively Any exposure to ETS during the first two years of life of the children was reported for 25% of the children In families with smoking fathers 34% of the mothers smoked...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 16:20

... 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 and the appropriateness of the first- line antibiotic therapy was investigated through the comparison of the ΔPCT values A multivariate analysis was conducted following the same rules ... analysis The main baseline characteristics of the included patients are presented in Table The main source of infection was found to be the lung (51.7%) In more than one-half of the cases of Page of...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 16:20

... 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) and the 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 of the puppies ... deer and red deer) the prevalence of Cryptosporidium was found to range between 0% and 6.2% in the different species, and the prevalence of Giardia was found to be between 1.7% and 15.5% in the...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:22

... billion during the first half of 2011, slightly behind the EUR 55 billion recorded in the first half of 2010 Long-term UCITS attracted EUR 87 billion during the first half of the 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 of the 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...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 16:20

... 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 and the 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 the first half of 2012, ... percent over the first half of 2012 Seventeen countries recorded an increase in net assets of UCITS in the first six months of 2012 All the large domiciles enjoyed growth in UCITS, with Ireland increasing...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 16:20

... Professor of the History of Science and Medicine at the University of Chicago Among his publications are Darwin and the Emergence of Evolutionary Theories of Mind and Behavior, The Meaning of ... emphasized both the spiritual need of the individual freely to construct the self (an idea at the root of Schelling’s idealism) and the destiny of that self in an ancient and fabled fatherland (the mythical ... all of the major works of Humboldt, as well as a great many of the minor ones, and, of course, he always had Goethe by his side.15 The Aesthetic Science of Humboldt, Kant, Schelling, and Goethe...

Ngày tải lên: 08/04/2014, 00:20

... depends on the energy content of the universe and the values of the other cosmological parameters We illustrate the abundance of halos for our standard choice of the 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 of the present power spectrum is often speciÿed by the R ... dramatic e ect on the ionization state and temperature of the rest of the gas in the universe Nuclear fusion releases ∼7×106 eV per hydrogen atom, and The use of this term in the cosmological...

Ngày tải lên: 24/04/2014, 17:06

... 5-18 years and 254 parents of children aged 2-18 years It was the mother who answered the questionnaire in 92.52% of the sample, and it was the father in 7.48% of the sample No parent in the patient ... questionnaire in 89.5% of the sample, it was the father in 4.57% of the sample, and it was someone else in 6.28% of the sample Distribution of all participants in terms of gender and age group is shown ... as the sum of the items divided by the number of items answered in the Emotional, Social, and School Functioning Subscales The sequential validation procedure of the original U S version of the...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... time Some of the time All of the time Knee pain present at night: None of the time Some of the time All of the time Knee pain worse on movement: None of the time Some of the time All of the time ... randomised trials and clinical practice The lack of standardisation in the choice of instruments limits the generalisability of results Furthermore, of the five instruments included in the review that ... measures of health and quality of life [2] Only three of the five instruments that incorporate the views of patients have been adequately evaluated for reliability and validity Of these, the Knee...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... scores for the DQOL and the D-39S and higher scores for the RAND-12 # PHC: physical health composite; MHC: mental health composite the RAND-12 the discriminative ability of the DQOL and the D-39S ... estimated a standard error of measurement (SEM) which accounts for reliability of the DQOL and standard deviation of patients under the investigation SEM was estimated by a standard deviation of the DQOL ... of the DQOL against the D-39S and the RAND-12 In general, domain scores of the DQOL were moderately correlated with the D-39S (except sexual functioning) and the RAND-12 PHC and MHC, with Pearson's...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... questionnaire is a short form of a 51-item survey designed to assess the influence of visual impairment on health-related quality of life (HRQL) The content of the original questionnaire was ... letters, another lost 39 letters, and the 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...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... 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 of Life Outcomes 2008, 6:99 Background Uterine leiomyoma, or uterine fibroids (UF), are the most common neoplasms of the 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...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2008, 6:35 the health-related quality of life of parents/guardians The score is computed as the sum of the 20 ... cross-cultural adaptation, the group of specialists stated that the concept of the impact of childhood cancer on the quality of life of the families used for development of the original instrument was ... following the first interview The health condition of the children was clinically similar between the first and the second interviews Cross-cultural adaptation During the cross-cultural adaptation, the...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 22:20

... from the scale [16], and a rating scale may not be used by respondents in the way it was intended by the developer of the scale [15] Thus, the assumptions about both the quality of the 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 of the ... 1.9%) The race/ethnicity of the 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...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 22:20

... development of the study question to the revision of the final manuscript Each of the four authors has made a significant contribution at each phase of the study AQLQ12+ Standardised version of the Asthma ... function and environmental stimuli) are the means of the responses to the questions in each of the domains Symptom and Medication Diary Each morning and evening patients scored how much they were bothered ... Modification of the AQLQ(S) Both the AQLQ [1] and the Paediatric Asthma Quality of Life Questionnaire (PAQLQ) [2] were developed by asking adults and children respectively about the problems and limitations...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... drafting of the document and revising it critically for important intellectual content PM, as the author of the QUALIOST® questionnaire, helped in the design of the analysis and the interpretation and ... 93.3% of patients and were therefore included in the analyses of the hypothesised structure and internal consistency reliability Longitudinal data were available for 80.9% of the patients for the ... Validation of the hypothesised structure of the QUALIOST® (see Table 1) Analysis of the cross-sectional psychometric properties by country included validation of the questionnaires structure and internal...

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 ... 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 of the study; interpretation of the data and analyses; and revised the article for important intellectual content All authors gave final approval of the version to be...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... after their first session, and within the first 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 of the first nephrology consultation to dialysis onset, and were used to evaluate the quality of therapeutic practices...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... was also conducted for the summary scores of the SF-12 and MOS-HIV using a series of dichotomized variables for CD4 count, SDM score, number of bed days, and number of days of reduced activity CD4 ... patient-reported CD4, symptom score, number of days spent in bed, and number of reduced activity As hypothesized, symptom score, number of days spent in bed, and number of days of reduced activity were all ... -0.10 number of days 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...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... reliability and validity of the Chinese version of the FIM This is also the first report of psychometric properties of the 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 of the Chinese version of the FIM will not only fill the gap in the parent HRQOL assessment Chen et al Health and Quality of Life ... 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...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20