BACKGROUND Information on clinical acceptability is needed when making cost-utility decisions about health screening implementation. Despite being in use for two decades, most data on the clinical acceptability of the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS) come from qualitative reports, or include relatively small samples of depressed women. This study aimed to measure acceptability in a s...

BACKGROUND Patient satisfaction is of growing importance to providers of emergency medical services (EMS). Prior reports of patient satisfaction have frequently used resource-intensive telephone follow-up to assess satisfaction. We determine the feasibility of using a single mailing, anonymous postal survey methodology for collecting patient satisfaction data from a suburban EMS system. METHO...

AIM To assess the sexual dysfunction among Croatian war veterans with combat-related posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). METHOD The study included two groups--101 war veterans with PTSD and 55 healthy control volunteers receiving outpatient general health care in several outpatient clinics in Split. tructured interviews on different aspects of sexual functioning were conducted from April to...

purpose: to assess patient satisfaction with ophthalmologic services at labbafinejad medical center. method: the present study was a cross-sectional study conducted during the summer of 2008. patients with ophthalmic problems were selected by systematic random sampling according to the admission list. a trained investigator interviewed patients in the hospital or clinic. the data collection too...

Cognitive defusion is one of the components psychological flexibility in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. The purpose this study was to translate Drexel Defusion Scale (DDS) into Turkish test its psychometric properties. This two-phase carried out with two groups participants. first phase, Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) included 370 university students (218 female, 152 male). second Confir...

PURPOSE To evaluate image subtraction for the detection of colonic pathologies in a dark-lumen MR colonography exam. MATERIALS AND METHODS A total of 20 patients (12 males; 8 females; mean 51.4 years of age) underwent MR colonography after standard cleansing and a rectal water enema on a 1.5-T whole-body MR system. After suppression of peristaltic motion, native and Gd-contrast-enhanced three...

Results: The Scale consisted of 38 items to be graded by 5 point Likert type. The result of the analysis provided four factors structure for the scale. (1. satisfaction – self-confidence, 2. clinical competency – self-efficacy, 3. seriousness fidelity, 4. barriers – difficulties). Corrected item-total correlation values of the scale items varied between 0.59-0.76. The reliability coefficient wa...

It is well recognized that exercise is good for health especially as it's known to prevent metabolic syndromes such as diabetes, hypertension and heart disease. To reap the benefits from exercise the most appropriate level of intensity must be determined, the level of intensity ranging from low, low to moderate to hard (vigorous). This study is aimed to 1. To investigate and evaluate 3 subjecti...