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Examining unidimensionality and improving reliability for the eight subscales of the SF-36 in opioid-dependent patients using Rasch analysis

, 2017
The Medical Outcome Study Short Form 36 (SF-36) is one of the most commonly used questionnaires for monitoring the Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQOL) of opioid-dependent patients.
Hsiao, Yu-Yu; Shih, Ching-Lin; Yu, Wan-Hui; Hsieh, Cheng-Hsi; Hsieh, Ching-Lin
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S100A9 promotes pulmonary arterial hypertension by regulating mitochondria–endoplasmic reticulum interaction‐mediated inflammatory injury of endothelial cells

Interdisciplinary Medicine, EarlyView.
Macrophage‐derived S100 calcium‐binding protein A9 (S100A9) promotes the pathological progression of pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH). S100A9 upregulates the interaction between signal‐transducing adaptor protein 2 and leucine‐rich repeat kinase 2, thereby regulating mitochondria–endoplasmic reticulum (ER) contact.
Chen Gong, Long Chen, Yiting Zhao, Xiaohe Wang, Qiang Yuan, Xiaofeng Fang, Liuyi Li, Yinbo Xu, Shumei Jiang, Guangwen Xu, Ke Meng, Delong Wang, Kangli Cao, Jianlong Sheng, Liling Guo, Shichun Shen   +15 more
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Psychometric properties of the 12-item short form health survey version 2 among general Thai samples: a Rasch analysis

Journal of Pharmaceutical Policy and Practice
Background Although the 12-item Short Form Health Survey version 2 (SF-12v2) is suitable for measuring health status in the general Thai population, it has been evaluated using classical test theory. Rasch analysis, however, offers a psychometric testing
Krittaphas Kangwanrattanakul
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Evaluation of the MOS SF-36 physical functioning scale (PF-10): I. Unidimensionality and reproducibility of the Rasch item scale

, 2010
Indexes developed to measure physical functioning as an essential component of general health status are often based on sets of hierarchically-structured items intended to represent a broad underlying concept.
Haley, Stephen M., McHorney, Colleen A., Ware, John E. Jr.   +2 more
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Parent‐Adolescent Digital Communication and Relationship Quality in the United States: A Systematic Review

Journal of Adolescence, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Despite the growing centrality of digital communication in family life, little is known about its role in parent‐adolescent relationships, especially when parents and adolescents share a household. This review was designed to synthesize U.S.‐based research on digital communication and relationship quality in these families across ...
Eunyoung Park, Jodi Dworkin
wiley   +1 more source

pml: A SAS macro for testing unidimensionality in polytomous Rasch models

, 2020
This note describes a SAS macro that can be used to test the assumption of unidimensionality in a polytomous Rasch ...
Karl Bang Christensen
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Alexithymia in Schizophrenia and Psychosis Vulnerability: A Systematic Review and Meta‐Analysis

Journal of Clinical Psychology, Volume 81, Issue 6, Page 410-424, June 2025.
ABSTRACT Aims Disturbances involving impairments in experience and expression of affect are frequently identified in schizophrenia samples. Alexithymia underlies cognitive impairments in identification and expression of affect, further implicated in affect dysregulation.
Ercan Ozdemir, Zhuoni Xiao, Helen Griffiths, Angus MacBeth   +3 more
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The need for invariant assessments in South African education

South African Journal of Education, 2014
Presently, a plethora of instruments designed to assess a mathematical skill, disposition, or competence prevail in South Africa. Yet few of them adhere to the basic requirements of the unidimensionality and invariance of measures.
Graham A Dampier
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The Psychometric Properties and Clinical Usefulness of the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale in Forensic Settings

Journal of Clinical Psychology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective The Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS) is a widely used measure of emotion dysregulation across clinical contexts. However, its psychometric properties and clinical utility have not been thoroughly examined in forensic populations.
Adam Meddeb, Märta Wallinius, Johan Berlin, Natalie Laporte, Malin Hildebrand Karlén, Claudia Mazzeschi, Elisa Delvecchio, Patrizia Velotti, Carlo Garofalo   +8 more
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Discrete components of stress impact trajectories of childhood irritability but not adolescent mental health outcomes

JCPP Advances, EarlyView.
Thick red line indicates positive mixture effect of stressors predicting high irritability class. Maternal demoralization, material hardship, maternal perceived stress, and intimate partner violence contributed to the mixture effect (thick borders on boxes).
Mariah DeSerisy, Huiyu Yang, Jacob W. Cohen, David Pagliaccio, Julie B. Herbstman, Bradley S. Peterson, Frederica P. Perera, Virginia Rauh, Amy E. Margolis   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source