Modelling Needs for Mental Healthcare from Epidemiological Surveys with Validation Using Sociodemographic Census Data

Modelling Needs for Mental Healthcare from Epidemiological Surveys with Validation Using Sociodemographic Census Data

PURPOSE To develop and validate a prediction model for mental health needs (MHN) and psychiatric needs (PN) using specific social indicators, obtainable from census data, within low-density departments (LDD) and high- density departments (HDD). METHODS In a population-based study of 20,404 participants from 22 departments in France, mental health needs were defined into three categories (no n...

Validation of a stroke symptom questionnaire for epidemiological surveys.

CONTEXT AND OBJECTIVE Stroke is a relevant issue within public health and requires epidemiological surveillance tools. The aim here was to validate a questionnaire for evaluating individuals with stroke symptoms in the Stroke Morbidity and Mortality Study (Estudo de Mortalidade e Morbidade do Acidente Vascular Cerebral, EMMA), São Paulo, Brazil. DESIGN AND SETTING This was a cross-sectional s...

HIV Prevention Needs Epidemiological Data

The theta-logistic is unreliable for modelling most census data

census data Francis Clark, Barry W. Brook, Steven Delean, H. Reşit Akçakaya and Corey J. A. Bradshaw* The Environment Institute and School of Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia; Department of Ecology and Evolution, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA; and South Australian Research and Development Institute, P.O. Box 120, Henley Be...

Scale Validation of the FFIS for Mothers with Children with Special Needs

Objective: The aim of the present study was to investigate the features of the Family-Focused Intervention Scale (FFIS) for mothers of children with special needs. Materials & Methods: Descriptive-survey and validation research methods’ were applied for the survey. Participants were drawn from a sample of 200 mothers of/with children with special needs in were selected from the special schoo...