PURPOSE Postmastectomy irradiation provides an excellent model for irradiated skin care practices because of the relatively uniform surface and radiation compared with other situations in which radiation-induced moist desquamation is common. We designed a study to test the effect of prophylactic 3M Cavilon No-Sting Barrier Film (No-Sting) on the rates of moist desquamation compared with sorbole...

magnesium (mg) deficiency has not usually been considered in clinical practice due to lack of relevant blood tests and because the symptoms are often vague and nonspecific. serum concentrations may not adequately reflect mg status. mg loading test (mlt) can provide infonnation on total body mg stores. we prospectively studied 21 critically ill patients (10 male, 11 female) admitted to the icu, ...

Background: Test equating methods are statistical tools used to produce exchangeable scores across different test forms. However, people believe that it is impossible develop multiple forms of tests have the same psychometric properties. Contribution: The study therefore analyzed linear senior school certificate multiple-choice examination papers in Economics. Method: A Non-equivalent Groups An...

Creating a vertical scale involves several decisions on assessment designs and statistical analyses to determine the most appropriate vertical scale. This research study aims at investigating common item stability check procedures to arrive at vertical linking item sets that will produce the necessary constants for computing vertical theta (ability) estimates and scale scores on a vertical scal...

aim and background: the aim of current study was to investigate the factor structure, reliability, and validity of parenting stress index-short form (psi-sf) among tehran city's mothers with 7-12 year-old children. methods and materials: after translation, back translation and adaptation of instrument, due to normalization this instrument by applied survey design, 468 mothers from those which s...