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Psychometric Evaluation of an Instrument to Measure Prospective Pregnancy Preferences: The Desire to Avoid Pregnancy Scale. [PDF]

, 2019
BACKGROUND:Existing approaches to measuring women's pregnancy intentions suffer important limitations, including retrospective assessment, overly simple categories, and a presumption that all women plan pregnancies. No psychometrically valid scales exist
Foster, Diana G, Gould, Heather, Ralph, Lauren J, Rocca, Corinne H, Wilson, Mark   +4 more
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Preoperative Cytopenia in Patients Affected by High‐Risk Neuroblastoma: Just a Matter of Platelets?

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background and Aims In patients affected by high‐risk neuroblastoma (HR‐NB), complete macroscopic resection (CMR) is associated with better outcomes. These patients are often cytopenic due to intensive induction regimens. The aim of the present study is to assess the impact of preoperative cytopenia on surgical outcome in patients with HR‐NB ...
Giorgio Persano, Valerio Voglino, Federico Beati, Cristina Martucci, Chiara Grimaldi, Francesca Del Bufalo, Annalisa Serra, Francesco Fabozzi, Carmen Malaspina, Pier Luigi Di Paolo, Gian Luigi Natali, Simone Reali, Maria Antonietta De Ioris, Alessandro Crocoli   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Relation of Adverse Childhood Experiences to Clinical and Patient‐Reported Outcomes for Adults With Sickle Cell Disease: A Registry Study

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are stressful or traumatic events prior to age 18 that are known to have a lasting impact on individuals’ health and well‐being. There is a gap in understanding the relationship between ACEs and Other Life Stressors and health status for adults with sickle cell disease (SCD).
Marsha Treadwell, Jessica Liang, Liliana Preiss, Angela Rivers, Jane S. Hankins, Allison King, Justin Williams, Michael B. Potter, Danielle Hessler   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Measuring pregnancy planning: An assessment of the London Measure of Unplanned Pregnancy among urban, south Indian women [PDF]

, 2010
Copyright © 2010 Corinne H. Rocca et al. This open-access work is published under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial License 2.0 Germany, which permits use, reproduction & distribution in any medium for non-commercial purposes ...
Ajzen, American Educational Research Association American Psychological Association National Council for Measurement in Psychology, Cater, Cleland, Coale, Corinne Rocca, Cronbach, De Boeck, Embretson, Fishbein, Geraldine Barrett, Johnson, Kline, Kline, Luker, Mark Wilson, Masters, Poole, Rocca, Streiner, Suneeta Krishnan, Wilson, Wright   +22 more
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The MedSupport Multilevel Intervention to Enhance Support for Pediatric Medication Adherence: Development and Feasibility Testing

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction We developed MedSupport, a multilevel medication adherence intervention designed to address root barriers to medication adherence. This study sought to explore the feasibility and acceptability of the MedSupport intervention strategies to support a future full‐scale randomized controlled trial.
Elizabeth G. Bouchard, Hital Patel, Paula C. Vincent, Justine Kahn, Kira Bona, Thai Hoa Tran, Elisa M. Rodriguez, Kristopher Attwood, Kara M. Kelly   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Rasch analysis of the Katz index of independence in activities of daily living in senior citizens from Antioquia, Colombia

Revista Facultad Nacional de Salud Pública, 2019
Improving Katz index interpretability contributes to a better understanding of its results facilitating decision making and intervention planning. Objective: To evaluate the validity of the Katz geriatric scale in senior citizens from a Rasch model ...
Diego Fernando Rojas-Gualdrón, Jessica María Ayala-Hernández, Doris Cardona-Arango, Angela María Segura-Cardona, María Osley Garzón-Duque   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Identifying Group-Sensitive Physical Activities: A Differential Item Functioning Analysis of NHANES Data [PDF]

, 2011
Purpose: To identify subgroup sensitive physical activities using differential item functioning (DIF) analysis. Methods: A sub-unweighted sample of 1,857 (males = 923 and females = 934) from the 2003-2004 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey ...
Gao, Yong, Zhu, Weimo
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Changes in Body Composition in Children and Young People Undergoing Treatment for Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia: A Systematic Review and Meta‐Analysis

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Ongoing evidence indicates increased risk of sarcopenic obesity among children and young people (CYP) with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), often beginning early in treatment, persisting into survivorship. This review evaluates current literature on body composition in CYP with ALL during and after treatment.
Lina A. Zahed, Raquel Revuelta Iniesta, Mary Fewtrell, Julie Lanigan, Breeana Gardiner, Graeme O'Connor   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

GDIF and DDIF analysis for posttest instrument of curriculum 2013 training [PDF]

, 2017
The objective of this study was to analyze Gender Differential Item Functioning (GDIF) and District Differential Item Functioning (DDIF) in the post-test instrument of curriculum 2013 training in Central Kalimantan Indonesia.
Komalasari, Komalasari
core   +1 more source

Brazilian WHOQOL-OLD module version: a Rasch analysis of a new instrument [PDF]

, 2008
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the Brazilian version of WHOQOL-OLD Module and to test potential changes to the instrument to increase its psychometric adequacy.
Chachamovich, Eduardo, Fleck, Marcelo P, Power, Michael, Trentini, Clarissa   +3 more
core   +3 more sources