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Development and validation of the Vietnamese Primary Care Assessment Tool : provider version

, 2019
Aim: To adapt the provider version of the Primary Care Assessment Tool (PCAT) for Vietnam and determine its internal consistency and validity. Background: There is a growing need to measure and explore the impact of various characteristics of health care
Derese, Anselme, Markuns, Jeffrey F, Nguyễn Thị, Hòa, Peersman, Wim, Tam, Nguyen Minh   +4 more
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Development of the ASQoL: a quality of life instrument specific to ankylosing spondylitis [PDF]

, 2003
Background: Although disease-specific health status measures are available for ankylosing spondylitis (AS), no instrument exists for assessing quality of life (QoL) in the condition.
Chamberlain, M.A., Cook, S.A., Doward, L.C., Helliwell, P.S., Kay, L.J., McKenna, S.P., Spoorenberg, A., Tennant, A., van der Heijde, D., Whalley, D.   +9 more
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Rural physical activity interventions in the United States: a systematic review and RE-AIM evaluation

International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, 2019
Background Previous reviews of rural physical activity interventions were focused on intervention effectiveness and had reported overall mixed findings. The purpose of this systematic review was to apply the Reach, Efficacy, Adoption, Implementation and ...
Nishat Bhuiyan, Pritika Singh, Samantha M. Harden, Scherezade K. Mama   +3 more
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An Internal Validity Index Based on Density-Involved Distance

IEEE Access, 2019
It is crucial to evaluate the quality of clustering results in cluster analysis. Although many cluster validity indices (CVIs) have been proposed in the literature, they have some limitations when dealing with non-spherical datasets.
Lianyu Hu, Caiming Zhong
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Reliability and validity of two widely-used worry questionnaires: self-report and self-peer convergence [PDF]

, 1998
The reliability and validity of the Penn State Worry Questionnaire (PSWQ) and the Worry Domains Questionnaire (WDQ) were examined with self-ratings from a non-clinical sample of 148 students in a test-retest design across four weeks.
Borkenau, Borkovec, Cronbach, Crowne, Davey, Davey, Joachim Stöber, Joormann, Lück, McCann, McCrae, McCrae, Meyer, Molina, O'Neill, O'Neill, Shrout, Stöber, Tallis, Tallis, Watson, Wells   +21 more
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A preliminary validation of the impact on participation and autonomy questionnaire in an Iranian sample of patients with type 2 diabetes

Journal of Education and Health Promotion
BACKGROUND: This study aimed to determine the face, convergent validity, internal consistency, and stability reliability of the impact on participation and autonomy-Persian version (IPA-p) scale for using among Iranian patients with type 2 diabetes ...
Reza Vazirinejad, Mohammad Ali Zakeri, Hassan Ahmadinia, Sayed Mortaza Hossini Rafsanjanipoor   +3 more
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A quality of life measure for limb lymphoedema (LYMQOL) [PDF]

, 2010
Background: This paper describes the validation of a 'condition-specific' quality of life (QoL) assessment tool for lymphoedema of the limbs (LYMQOL). Aims: To ascertain whether the tool could accurately assess QoL in this patient group. Methods:
Crooks, Sue, Hilliam, Rachel, Keeley, Vaughan, Locke, Jane, Riches, Katie, Veigas, Debbie   +5 more
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Depression and the medicalization of sadness: conceptualization and recommended help-seeking [PDF]

, 2013
Critiques of the validity of the DSM diagnostic criteria for depressive disorder argue that it fails to differentiate between abnormal sadness due to internal dysfunction or depression (sadness without an identifiable cause), and normal sadness (sadness ...
Durà-Vilà, G, Leavey, G, Littlewood, R
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Numerical Calculation of Convection with Reduced Speed of Sound Technique [PDF]

, 2012
Context. The anelastic approximation is often adopted in numerical calculation with low Mach number, such as stellar internal convection. This approximation requires frequent global communication, because of an elliptic partial differential equation ...
Brown, Brown, Brown, Brun, Choudhuri, Choudhuri, Dikpati, Dikpati, Fan, Gilman, Gilman, Glatzmaier, H. Hotta, Hotta, Hotta, Hotta, Kichatinov, Küker, M. Rempel, Miesch, Miesch, Rempel, Rempel, T. Yokoyama, Thompson, Y. Fan, Y. Iida, Yeates   +27 more
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The relationship between learner engagement and teaching effectiveness: a novel assessment of student engagement in continuing medical education

BMC Medical Education, 2020
Background Continuing medical education (CME) often uses passive educational models including lectures. However, numerous studies have questioned the effectiveness of these less engaging educational strategies. Studies outside of CME suggest that engaged
Christopher R. Stephenson, Sara L. Bonnes, Adam P. Sawatsky, Lukas W. Richards, Cathy D. Schleck, Jayawant N. Mandrekar, Thomas J. Beckman, Christopher M. Wittich   +7 more
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