OBJECTIVE To translate and to perform the cross-cultural adaptation of the "Questionnaire of Life Quality Specific for Myasthenia Gravis - 15 items" (MG-QOL15). METHOD The original English version of the questionnaire was translated into Portuguese. This version was revised and translated back into English. Later, both English versions were compared and the divergences were corrected in the P...

AIMS To evaluate the relative efficiencies of five Internet-based digital and three paper-based scientific surveys and to estimate the costs for different-sized cohorts. METHODS Invitations to participate in a survey were distributed via e-mail to employees of two university hospitals (E1 and E2) and to members of a medical association (E3), as a link placed in a special text on the municipal...

BACKGROUND During the last decades, the traditional role of GPs as decision-makers for their patients has been questioned. OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to identify and discuss how GPs deal with and how they reason in situations where there is a possible tension between the obligation to respect the patients' right to self-determination and the obligation to promote their health. MET...

Aim. To develop and validate a questionnaire for detecting atopic dermatitis in infants and small children from the age of 2 months. Methods. Parents to 60 children answered a written questionnaire prior to a physical examination and individual semistructured interview. Qualitative and quantitative analyses of validity, sensitivity, specificity, and predictive values of the questionnaire were p...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate a short questionnaire as predictor of serum cholesterol obtained from a probabilistic sample of adolescents. METHODS A probabilistic sample of 5th to 12th grade students from state public schools in Niteroi, state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil was drawn based on 28 classes. Five hundred seventy-seven subjects had their blood collected, and 539 answered the simplified questio...

OBJECTIVES To examine the variation of symptoms from the neck, shoulders, and back over a three year period among female nursing personnel and the relation between job strain and musculoskeletal symptoms. METHODS At a county hospital the female nursing personnel answered a questionnaire at baseline and then once a year over a period of three years. There were 565, 553, 562, and 419 subjects w...

test anxiety is one of key factors which weaken the student’s morale and confidence and reduce their creativity and gradually become the permanent personal characteristic and mostly results in feeling of inadequacy. human’s locus of control is usually roots in personal belief system about the causes of the different personal experience and the causes of the success or failure, so it has great e...

this study aims to investigate the relationship between information literacy, computer self-efficacy and academic performance in a population of 1054 of ba and ma students of psychology and educational sciences faculty of tehran university. the data are collected in a sample of 283 students (103 ba and 180 ma); selected using cochran's sampling formula. these students answered mittermeyer ...

It is challenging to enhance quality of e-learning. We based the quality assessment on the EFQM and the Kirkpatrick models. We built our own SEVAQ quality model on which we based our multi-functional selfevaluation questionnaire. We focused and limited ourselves on the valuable learners feedback. Our questionnaire is structured around the 3 main criteria: the enabling learning resources, learni...