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The adult social care outcomes toolkit easy read for older people (ASCOT-ER OP): an exploratory factor analysis and Rasch validation study. [PDF]

Qual Life Res
ASCOT easy read for older people (ASCOT-ER OP) is an adaptation of the Adult Social Care Outcomes Toolkit (ASCOT-SCT4) that was co-produced with older adults and their families to improve accessibility and feasibility of completion.
Rand S, Caiels J, Mikelyte R, Towers AM.
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Validity and reliability of the Japanese Adult Social Care Outcomes Toolkit four-level Self Completion Tool (ASCOT SCT4) in community mental health service users in Japan [PDF]

Health and Quality of Life Outcomes
Background Outcome evaluations using patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) are becoming increasingly important in healthcare, including long-term care and disability support.
Mayui Nara, Sosei Yamaguchi, Yoko Moriyama, Takashi Okada, Kentaro Usuda, Ayako Hada, Kaori Usui, Mai Iwanaga, Takayuki Kawaguchi, Sayaka Sato, Naoaki Kuroda, Chiyo Fujii   +11 more
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Translation, cultural adaptation, and content validation of the Hong Kong Chinese version of Self-completion Adult Social Care Outcomes Toolkit (ASCOT-SCT4) for care service users. [PDF]

Health Qual Life Outcomes
In light of the global challenges posed by an ageing population, the evaluation of long-term care (LTC) is of particular importance. The Adult Social Care Outcomes Toolkit Four-Level Self-completion Tool (ASCOT-SCT4) is a preference-based instrument ...
Yu S, Sze JCD, Cheung AWL, Wang K, Welch E, Smith N, Xu RH, Wong ELY.   +7 more
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Social care‐related outcomes in Finland. Construct validity and structural characteristics of the Finnish ASCOT measure with older home care users

Health and Social Care in the Community, 2021
The Adult Social Care Outcomes Toolkit four response-level interview schedule (ASCOT INT4) for service users was translated into Finnish. The aim of this paper was to investigate the construct validity and structural characteristics of the Finnish ASCOT.
Lien Nguyen, Ismo Linnosmaa, Stacey Rand   +2 more
exaly   +2 more sources

Protocol for the Addressing the Social Determinants and Consequences of Tuberculosis in Nepal (ASCOT) pilot trial [version 3; peer review: 2 approved]

Wellcome Open Research, 2022
BACKGROUND: The World Health Organization’s End TB (tuberculosis) Strategy advocates social and economic support for TB-affected households but evidence from low-income settings is scarce.
Tom Wingfield, Gokul Mishra, Raghu Dhital, Bhola Rai, Poonam Rishal, S Bertel Squire, Kritika Dixit, Knut Lonnroth, Puskar Raj Paudel, Suman Chandra Gurung, Maxine Caws, Noemia Siqueira-Filha, Laura Bonnett, Mukti Nath Khanal   +13 more
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Cross-cultural adaptation and construct validity of the German version of the Adult Social Care Outcomes Toolkit for service users (German ASCOT)

Health and Quality of Life Outcomes, 2020
Background There has been considerable interest in using the Adult Social Care Outcomes Toolkit (ASCOT), developed in England, to measure quality-of-life outcomes of long-term care (LTC-QoL) service provision in national and cross-national studies ...
Birgit Trukeschitz, Judith Litschauer, Assma Hajji, Judith Kieninger, Adiam Schoch, Juliette Malley, Stacey Rand, Ismo Linnosmaa, Julien Forder   +8 more
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Japanese preference weights of the Adult Social Care Outcomes Toolkit for Carers (ASCOT-Carer)

Quality of Life Research, 2022
We developed preference weights of the Adult Social Care Outcomes Toolkit for Carers (ASCOT-Carer) in Japan. We used best–worst scaling (BWS) and composite time trade-off (cTTO) to determine the preference weights for ASCOT-Carer states in the general ...
Takeru Shiroiwa, Hiromi Nakamura-Thomas, Mai Yamaguchi   +2 more
exaly   +2 more sources

Use of 24-Hour Recalls to Assess Adherence to Cancer Specific Dietary Guidelines: Experiences from the Advancing Survivorship Cancer Outcomes Trial (ASCOT). [PDF]

Nutr Cancer
People living with and beyond cancer (LWBC) are advised to follow World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF) dietary guidelines. However, there is no established methodology to assess adherence.
Ireland V, Croker H, Esser S, Lally P, Beeken RJ, Fisher A, Conway R.   +6 more
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Developing a proxy version of the Adult social care outcome toolkit (ASCOT) [PDF]

Health and Quality of Life Outcomes, 2017
Background Social care-related quality of life is a key outcome indicator used in the evaluation of social care interventions and policy. It is not, however, always possible to collect quality of life data by self-report even with adaptations for people ...
Stacey Rand, James Caiels, Grace Collins, Julien Forder   +3 more
doaj   +2 more sources

ASCOT: A web tool for the digital construction of energy minimized Ag, CuO, TiO2 spherical nanoparticles and calculation of their atomistic descriptors

Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal
ASCOT (an acronym derived from Ag-Silver, Copper Oxide, Titanium Oxide) is a user-friendly web tool for digital construction of electrically neutral, energy-minimized spherical nanoparticles (NPs) of Ag, CuO, and TiO2 (both Anatase and Rutile forms) in ...
Panagiotis D. Kolokathis, Evangelos Voyiatzis, Nikolaos K. Sidiropoulos, Andreas Tsoumanis, Georgia Melagraki, Kaido Tämm, Iseult Lynch, Antreas Afantitis   +7 more
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