BACKGROUND Foot self-care practice is one of the most important self-management behaviors to prevent the occurrence of diabetic foot ulcers. A tool that measures all aspects of daily foot care routines and demonstrates good reliability and validity is essential to pinpointing specific foot ulcer problems and evaluating intervention outcomes. There is currently no such tool available. PURPOSE ...

Sharad S Lodhi 1,5 , Rohit Farmer 2 , Atul Kumar Singh 3 , Meenu Wadhwa 4 , Yogesh K Jaiswal 5 and Gulshan Wadhwa 1 * Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science and Technology, New Delhi 110 003, India Department of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Jacob School of Biotechnology and Bioengineering Sam Higginbottom Istitute of Agriculture, Technology and Sciences, Allahabad 211 007...

5 The dominant method for measuring values of travel time savings (VOT), and values of travel time 6 reliability (VOR) is discrete choice modeling. Generally, the data sources for these models are: stated 7 choice experiments, and revealed preference observations. There are few studies using revealed prefer8 ence data. These studies have only used travel times measured by devices such as loop d...

This study investigated the test-retest reliability and the criterion-related validity of the Implicit Association Test (IAT [1]) that was developed for measuring shyness among Japanese people. The IAT has been used to measure implicit stereotypes, as well as self-concepts, such as implicit shyness and implicit self-esteem. We administered the shyness IAT and the self-esteem IAT to participants...

background: given the greater tendency during adolescence toward risk-taking, identifying and measuring the factors affecting the adolescents’ health is highly important to ensure the efficacy of health promoting interventions. one of these factors is self-transcendence. the aim of this study was to assess the psychometric features of the self-transcendence scale (adolescents’ version) in stude...

Objectives: Self-determination is a significant skill in the proper transition from adolescence to adulthood. Parents play an important role in assessing the self-determination of their children. Currently, there is no valid instrument in Iran to assess parents’ views about the self-determination of their adolescents. The present study was conducted to determine the psychometric properties of t...

BACKGROUND Caregivers make an important contribution to the self-care of patients with heart failure (HF), but few instruments are available to measure this contribution. OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to test the psychometric properties of the Caregiver Contribution to Self-care of Heart Failure Index (CC-SCHFI), an instrument derived from the Self-care of Heart Failure Index vers...

Cutaneous basal (BCC) and squamous cell carcinomas (SCC) are the most commonly occurring cancers in humans. These skin driven by DNA damage to epidermis, body’s outermost protective barrier. Our previous studies demonstrate that damaging agents activate inflammasome signaling dermal fibroblasts, which enhances epithelial proliferation plasticity wild-type characteristics associated with tumorig...

Abstract Introduction Intimacy is crucial for developing successful relationships as it strengthens bonds between partners. has been ill-defined and inconsistently measured decades; however, theorists researchers consistently agree that intimacy features components of love, affection, self-disclosure, mutual validation. These constructs feature both cognitive behavioral aspects human connection...