The authors conducted Rasch model (G. Rasch, 1960) analyses of items from the Young Adult Alcohol Problems Screening Test (YAAPST; S. C. Hurlbut & K. J. Sher, 1992) to examine the relative severity and ordering of alcohol problems in 806 college students. Items appeared to measure a single dimension of alcohol problem severity, covering a broad range of the latent continuum. Items fit the Rasch...

Cardiovascular disease (CAD) screening in asymptomatic patients with diabetes mellitus is controversial. An exercise stress test is a safe and effective initial testing for Ischemic Heart Disease (IHD) screening. Treadmill stress test is not the best screening method for a particular patient who is not able to exercise, abnormal electrocardiogram (ECG) or positive exercise treadmill test (ETT) ...

The purpose of this study was to assess children’s images of scientists by using the Draw-A-Scientist Test and to determine if differences in these images exist between grade levels. The DAST was administered to 243 children who were enrolled in kindergarten (aged 6) and grade 3 and 5 (aged 9 and 11). Findings obtained from the study revealed that, in general, children possess stereotypical vie...

One of the most robust findings in attention research is that the time to name a color is lengthened markedly in the presence of an irrelevant word that spells a different color name: the Stroop effect. The Stroop effect is found even when the word is physically separated from the color, apparently indicating that words can be read outside the focus of spatial attention. The present study criti...

OBJECTIVE To create a more culturally relevant developmental assessment tool for use in children in rural Africa. DESIGN Through focus groups, piloting work and validation, a more culturally appropriate developmental tool, based on the style of the Denver II, was created. Age standardised norms were estimated using 1130 normal children aged 0-6 years from a rural setting in Malawi. The perfor...

A large proportion of preschool children in India, as in other developing countries, live in the urban slums. Among them, early identification of developmental delay will be beneficial. In the developed countries, rapid prescreening Denver Questionnaire (R-PDQ) is currently being used for community screening of developmental delay. This is followed by administering the Denver Development Screen...

A territory-wide cervical screening programme was launched in Hong Kong in March 2004. Since 2002, 160 nurses from the Department of Health's Maternal and Child Health Centres have completed the training necessary to carry out the screening procedures. A clinical audit of their performance was carried out between 2002 and 2004. A customer satisfaction survey revealed that 94% of respondents agr...

background: the efficacy of various screening variables in detection of diabetes mellitus (dm) is unclear.   objective: to determine the efficacy of various diagnostic tests for type 2 dm.   methods: 1021 inhabitants of hakimieh district of tehran aged between 30 and 75 years were studied.  known cases of diabetes and those with factors influencing glucose tolerance test were excluded.  age, se...