the purpose of the study is to show in which trimester of pregnancy is fatigue more common among working women, and whether or not there is any relationship between fatigue rate and educational level, income, etc. this is a longitudinal study. from the total number of patients who came to zeinab university hospital, 100 completed a demographics 50 item questionnaire and the numerical rating sca...

Epidemiological surveys conducted in general populations have found that the prevalence of depression is about 9% in the United States. World Health Organization has projected that depression will be leading cause of disease burden by the year 2030. Growing evidence suggests that sedentary lifestyle is an important risk factor of depression among adults. The relationship between television watc...

Questionnaires to assess goal orientation are widely used. However, recent research indicates some shortcomings. Most significantly, questionnaire data are unable to capture developments and changes in students ́ goal orientation during the learning process. Therefore, it seems appropriate to supplement questionnaire data with online measures that directly tackle students’ behavior. We analyzed ...

OBJECTIVE To examine the effect of questionnaire context on self-reported illness cognition. DESIGN A single-item measure of the perceived impact of lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) was embedded twice in a questionnaire battery completed by community-dwelling middle-aged males (N = 1,790). The impact measure was placed in two distinct questionnaire contexts; at the end of a general somatic...

STUDY OBJECTIVES These were as follows: to study incompleteness of data, herein called item non-response, generated by a self completion questionnaire; to identify the characteristics of item non-responders and the types of questions liable to high item non-response rates; and to discuss possible reasons for item non-response. DESIGN Item non-response patterns in 12,307 responders (62%) to a ...

BACKGROUND Subjective cognitive complaints (SCCs) may be an early marker of prodromal Alzheimer's disease. OBJECTIVES Using a 10-item yes/no SCCs questionnaire (Le Questionnaire de Plainte Cognitive [QPC]), we evaluated the prevalence and distribution of SCCs in cognitively healthy Czech older adults and examined total score and specific QPC items in relation to depressive symptomology and co...

the importance of wisdom in managerial and organizational issues is growing. wisdom, in addition to being the rational and moral judgment, is the most important success factor for organization. the purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of managerial dimensions on wisdom-based organization. statistical population composed of employees in government agencies in hamedan province (794...

BACKGROUND Limited data define what constitutes a minimal clinically important difference (MCID) on the EuroQol 5-Dimension (EQ-5D) health status index in persons with multiple sclerosis (PwMS). We sought to estimate the MCID for the EQ-5D health index in North American PwMS. METHODS PwMS completing the Patient Determined Disease Steps (PDDS) scale, 12-Item Multiple Sclerosis Walking Scale (M...

This study examines elderly people’s innate moral foundations in influencing decisions, and their subsequent enjoyment in an interactive media environment. The Moral Foundation Questionnaire was used to distinguish between the moral intuitions of elderly US and German respondents, who were believed to have divergent yet stable moral codes that would be salient in a novel virtual world. In an ex...