BACKGROUND The Malay spoken in Brunei a South East Asian country where Malay is the national language is distinctive and different from Malay spoken in Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia. This study aimed to develop a Brunei Malay version of the 5-level EQ-5D questionnaire (EQ-5D-5L) and to assess its psychometric properties among patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). METHODS The Brun...

In the present work, compound 3´-(2,6-dimethoxybenzoyl)-benzyl 2,6-dimethoxybenzoate (RM4) was evaluated for its ability as a corrosion inhibitor in 3% chloride medium and using an API 5L X70 steel working electrode. The electrochemical system by techniques such polarization curves (CP) impedance spectroscopy (EIS), finding through values obtained that efficiency of at 50 ppm reached 73.2% agai...

BACKGROUND This study aimed to assess the measurement equivalence of the 5-level EQ-5D (EQ-5D-5L) among the English, Chinese, and Malay versions. METHODS A convenience sample of patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus were enrolled from a public primary health care institution in Singapore. The survey questionnaire comprised the EQ-5D-5L and questions assessing participants' socio-demographic ...

OBJECTIVES To compare the discriminative power of the five-level version of the EuroQol five-dimensional questionnaire (EQ-5D-5L [5L]) and its three-level version (EQ-5D-3L [3L]) in patients with diabetes in Singapore. METHODS A consecutive sample of patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) self-completed the two versions of the EQ-5D in the clinic. The 3L index score was calculated from...