Semantic primes theory may be helpful in designing questionnaires such as to prevent response shift

Semantic primes theory may be helpful in designing questionnaires such as to prevent response shift.

OBJECTIVES The purpose of randomized control trials (RCTs) can be the assessment of the direct effect of treatment on health-related quality of life (HRQL). Response shift (RS) theory considers that a change in HRQL scores observed over time cannot be explained solely by a direct effect of a medical condition, it may also result from a change in the way people appraise their HRQL. The RS effect...

Case Report of a Vanished Aspirated Foreign Body; Cough may be more Helpful

Foreign body aspiration is a potentially life-threatening event especially in those who are younger than 5 years old. Aspiration could be presented as a spectrum, ranging from absolutely asymptomatic event to more sever events including choking, respiratory distress and cyanosis or even death. Although foreign bodies in lung may not be visualized on X-ray, X-ray radiography is considered as a f...

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Designing questionnaires: healthcare survey to compare two different response scales

BACKGROUND A widely discussed design issue in patient satisfaction questionnaires is the optimal length and labelling of the answering scale. The aim of the present study was to compare intra-individually the answers on two response scales to five general questions evaluating patients' perception of hospital care. METHODS Between November 2011 and January 2012, all in-hospital patients at a S...

Physics as Generalized Number Theory: Infinite Primes

Physics as a generalized number theory program involves three threads: various p-adic physics and their fusion together with real number based physics to a larger structure, the attempt to understand basic physics in terms of classical number fields, and infinite primes discussed in this article. The construction of infinite primes is formally analogous to a repeated second quantization of an a...