objective: having a good quality of life has always been desirable for humans, and the concept of a good life and the ways of achieving it have become important over the years. personal wellbeing is the mental component of quality of life. thus, the current study was conducted to assess the reliability and validity of the ‘‘personal well-being index- cognitive disability’’ on mentally retarded ...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE A case-mix adjustment model has been developed and externally validated, demonstrating promise. However, the model has not been thoroughly tested among populations in China. In our study, we evaluated the performance of the model in Chinese patients with acute stroke. METHODS The case-mix adjustment model A includes items on age, presence of atrial fibrillation on admis...

BACKGROUND The objective of this study was to translate and to test the reliability and validity of the 12-item General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12) in Iran. METHODS Using a standard 'forward-backward' translation procedure, the English language version of the questionnaire was translated into Persian (Iranian language). Then a sample of young people aged 18 to 25 years old completed the que...

BACKGROUND The Healthy Eating Index (HEI), a measure of diet quality as specified by federal dietary guidance, was revised to conform to the Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2005. The HEI has several components, the scores of which are totaled. OBJECTIVE The validity and reliability of the HEI-2005 were evaluated. DESIGN Validity was assessed by answering four questions: Does the HEI-2005 1...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The WOSI score questionnaire is a tool designed for self-assessment of shoulder function for patients with instability problems. We made a translation into Swedish and retested the score by analyzing the psychometric properties validity, reliability, and responsiveness. PATIENTS AND METHODS 3 patient materials were used for the assessment: (A) a follow-up on a group of ...

We examined the relationship in a large-living population between the concentration of triglycerides in plasma from fasting persons and the concentration of very-low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (VLDL-C) as determined after preparative ultracentrifugation. Data from individuals in the Framingham Heart Study who were free of coronary heart disease, did not have Fredrickson Type I, III, or V h...

Solid State Nuclear Track Detectors (SSNTD) have been used as passive dosimeters for many decades. Fast neutron detection is performed by detecting recoil protons generated in a hydrogenous material (neutron converter). The dose estimated multiplying the track-spots density present on detector surface calibration coefficient obtained from reference irradiations. Therefore, one needs to automati...

conclusions some results of the correlation coefficients are not the same with visualization. the reason may be due to the small number of data. materials and methods in the foundation-application study, we constructed two-way gene networks using nonparametric methods, such as spearman’s rank correlation coefficient and blomqvist’s measure, and compared them with pearson’s correlation coefficie...