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Development of the Health Literacy of Caregivers Scale - Cancer (HLCS-C): item generation and content validity testing [PDF]

, 2014
BACKGROUND: Health literacy refers to an individual’s ability to engage with health information and services. Cancer caregivers play a vital role in the care of people with cancer, and their capacity to find, understand, appraise and use health ...
Burney, Susan, Dodson, Sarity, Knight, Tess, Livingston, Patricia M., Ricciardelli, Lina, Yuen, Eva Y.N.   +5 more
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Mechanisms of parasite‐mediated disruption of brain vessels

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Parasites can affect the blood vessels of the brain, often causing serious neurological problems. This review explains how different parasites interact with and disrupt these vessels, what this means for brain health, and why these processes matter. Understanding these mechanisms may help us develop better ways to prevent or treat brain infections in ...
Leonor Loira, Sílvia Arroz‐Madeira, Cláudio A. Franco, Sara Silva Pereira   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Construction and validation of a matrix for normative evaluation of the integrated health system of the borders

Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem
Objective: to build and validate a matrix for normative evaluation of the Integrated Health System of Borders. Method: a methodological study, composed by the construction of an evaluation matrix elaborated in three stages: elaboration of the logical ...
Luciana Aparecida Fabriz, Valéria Conceição de Oliveira, Fabiana Costa Machado Zacharias, Silvia Helena Valente, Denise Ferro, Ione Carvalho Pinto   +5 more
doaj   +3 more sources

Design and Implementation Content Validity Study: Development of an instrument for measuring Patient-Centered Communication [PDF]

Journal of Caring Sciences, 2015
Introduction: The importance of content validity in the instrument psychometric and its relevance with reliability, have made it an essential step in the instrument development.
Vahid Zamanzadeh, Akram Ghahramanian, Maryam Rassouli, Abbas Abbaszadeh, Hamid Alavi-Majd, Ali-Reza Nikanfar   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Caries Assessment Spectrum and Treatment (CAST) index: face and content validation

International Dental Journal, 2012
The aim of this study was to establish the face and content validity of the Caries Assessment Spectrum and Treatment (CAST) index. This hierarchical epidemiological index consists of 10 codes covering the spectrum of carious lesion progression and describing conditions ranging from the absence of carious lesions to the presence of sealants and ...
de Souza, A.L., van der Sanden, W.J., Leal, S.C., Frencken, J.E.   +3 more
openaire   +3 more sources

The Contact Dermatitis Quality of Life Index (CDQL): Survey Development and Content Validity Assessment

JMIR Dermatology, 2021
Background There is limited measurement and reporting of quality of life (QoL) outcomes for patients with contact dermatitis (CD). Objective The purpose of this study is to develop a standardized Contact Dermatitis Quality of Life ...
Mary K Hill, Melissa R Laughter, Cecile I Harmange, Robert P Dellavalle, Chandler W Rundle, Cory A Dunnick   +5 more
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In vitro properties of patient serum predict clinical outcome after high dose rate brachytherapy of hepatocellular carcinoma

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
Following high dose rate brachytherapy (HDR‐BT) for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), patients were classified as responders and nonresponders. Post‐therapy serum induced increased BrdU incorporation and Cyclin E expression of Huh7 and HepG2 cells in nonresponders, but decreased levels in responders.
Lukas Salvermoser, Jan Niklas Schäfer, Shraga Nahum Goldberg, Philipp Maximilian Kazmierczak, Moritz Nikolaus Gröper, Philipp Franz Linden, Elif Öcal, Tanja Burkard, Stefanie Corradini, Najib Ben Khaled, Moritz Wildgruber, Max Seidensticker, Jens Ricke, Matthias Stechele, Marianna Alunni‐Fabbroni   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source

Validating a theory of planned behavior questionnaire for assessing changes in professional behaviors of medical students

Frontiers in Medicine
IntroductionTeaching professionalism is a fundamental aspect of medical undergraduate education, delivering important domains of professional attitudes, ethics, and behaviors.
Shaista Salman Guraya, Eric Clarke, Asil Sadeq, Mary Smith, Sinead Hand, Frank Doyle, Grainne Kearney, Mark Harbinson, Aine Ryan, Fiona Boland, Abdelsalam Bensaaud, Salman Yousuf Guraya, Denis W. Harkin   +12 more
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Patient‐specific pharmacogenomics demonstrates xCT as predictive therapeutic target in colon cancer with possible implications in tumor connectivity

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
This study integrates transcriptomic profiling of matched tumor and healthy tissues from 32 colorectal cancer patients with functional validation in patient‐derived organoids, revealing dysregulated metabolic programs driven by overexpressed xCT (SLC7A11) and SLC3A2, identifying an oncogenic cystine/glutamate transporter signature linked to ...
Marco Strecker, Keren Zohar, Martin Böttcher, Thomas Wartmann, Henry Freudenstein, Maximilian Doelling, Mihailo Andric, Wenjie Shi, Or Kakhlon, Katrin Hippe, Beatrix Jahnke, Dimitrios Mougiakakos, Franziska Baenke, Daniel Stange, Roland S. Croner, Michal Linial, Ulf D. Kahlert   +16 more
wiley   +1 more source

Psychometric properties of an instrument to assess teachers’ practice of differentiated instruction (IATPDI): a confirmatory factor analysis on Bhutanese teachers’ data

Frontiers in Education
IntroductionWe developed the IATPDI questionnaire, comprising seven scales for assessing teachers’ implementation of assessment methods, content, process, and product differentiation, familiarity with and use of various differentiated instruction (DI ...
Tshering Dorji, Pelden Nima
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