BACKGROUND Gastrointestinal (GI) disorders are one of the main adverse events in patients treated by mycophenolic acid (MPA). The aim of our prospective questionnaire-based study was to assess GI side-effects in de novo renal-transplant patients receiving either mycophenolate mofetil (MMF) or enteric-coated mycophenolate sodium (EC-MPS). METHODS Between January 2002 and April 2003, all patien...

OBJECTIVE To assess the reliability of the SF 36 health survey questionnaire in two patient populations. DESIGN Postal questionnaire followed up, if necessary, by two reminders at two week intervals. Retest questionnaires were administered postally at two weeks in the first study and at one week in the second study. SETTING Outpatient clinics and four training general practices in Grampian ...

OBJECTIVE To design a questionnaire to assess cognitive representations of mental health problems held by people diagnosed with schizophrenia. BACKGROUND Personal beliefs about health problems have been reliably associated with emotional and behavioural responses to those health problems and health outcomes. This area has been extensively explored in relation to physical health, but somewhat ...

Methods We developed a questionnaire based on the WHO glove use pyramid. The pyramid was used as campaign material for the most recent national hand hygiene campaign (end of campaign May, 2009). The final questionnaire contained 36 glove use indications with four response alternatives: “no gloves indicated”, “non-sterile gloves indicated”, “sterile gloves indicated” and “I do not know”. Demogr...

The educational intervention could improve knowledge about rational drug use in the junior high school. Improving knowledge about rational drug use at an early age may be a good way to increase the population's awareness of health, medicines and self-medication. To educate the rational drug use, it is desirable that the school pharmacists participate in this educational program in the junior hi...

Fifty coronary heart disease cases along with an equal number of controls, matched in age and educational levels were studied using Middlesex Hospital Questionnaire, Somatic Inkblot Series I and Command Hospital Questionnaire. They were between 20 and 55 years of age. Obsession and somatic personality traits measured on SIS variables were found to be statistically significant in coronary cases ...

OBJECTIVE To validate a translated Italian version of the Fibromyalgia Impact Questionnaire (FIQ). METHODS The Italian version of the FIQ was administered to 50 patients affected by fibromyalgia (FM) (48 patients filled out the questionnaire again 10 days later) together with the Italian version of the Stanford Health Assessment Questionnaire (HAQ), the Medical Outcomes Survey Short Form-36 (...

BACKGROUND The How I Think Questionnaire (HIT-Q) was developed to measure the main categories of self-serving cognitive distortions. METHOD The present study analyses the psychometric properties of the HIT-Q Spanish-Version. The sample consisted of 1.490 Spanish-speaking adolescents recruited from various schools in Madrid (Spain). The participants had a mean age of 15.37 years (SD = 1.67). ...

UNLABELLED Certain research has pointed out the relative importance of cognitive distortions in the development of antisocial behavior. Distortions of social cognitions that facilitate aggression and other types of antisocial behavior have been described as self-serving cognitive distortions (Barriga et al., 2001 [2]). Considering the importance of the assessment of delinquent cognitive distort...