Objective To examine the usefulness of a symptom-based case-finding questionnaire (CFQ) and the Medical Research Council (MRC) dyspnea scale in identifying which individuals with known risk factors for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) require targeted spirometry in primary care. Design Cross-sectional study. Setting Three community primary care practices in Ontario. Participants Men...

OBJECTIVE Quality of life (QOL), sexual satisfaction (SS) and physical performance have been assessed in the management of numerous chronic diseases. METHODS In this study, the following tests and surveys were applied: (i) QOL questionnaire [Cystic Fibrosis Questionnaire (CFQ)]; (ii) SS questionnaire (SSQ) [female sexual quotient (FSQ) and male sexual quotient (MSQ)]; (iii) 6-minute walk test...

A substantial part of the inter-individual variation in everyday cognitive failures in memory, perception and motor control can be attributed to genetic factors. Cognitive failures were assessed with the Cognitive Failures Questionnaire (Broadbent, Cooper, FitzGerald and Parkes, 1982) in a large sample of Dutch adolescent twin pairs and their biological parents. The heritability for CFQ scores ...

Abstract Introduction How napping is associated with cognition currently unclear past work indicating benefits for young adults and inconsistent findings regarding in older adults. The present study improved upon previous literature by examining how age moderates associations between behaviors across a full week both subjective objective the adult lifespan. Methods Cognitively healthy aged 18-8...

RATIONALE The lung clearance index (LCI) is a promising endpoint for use in cystic fibrosis (CF) clinical trials, but correlations with validated clinical endpoints have not yet been established. OBJECTIVE This study aimed to demonstrate that, in young patients with CF, baseline LCI predicts subsequent pulmonary exacerbation (PE) and correlates with the respiratory domain of the CF Questionna...

We present *-CFQ ("star-CFQ"): a suite of large-scale datasets varying scope based on the CFQ semantic parsing benchmark, designed for principled investigation scalability machine learning systems in realistic compositional task setting. Using this suite, we conduct series experiments investigating ability Transformers to benefit from increased training data size under conditions fixed computat...

OBJECTIVE The Chalder Fatigue Questionnaire (CFQ) is an instrument used to measure physical and mental fatigue. We translated and adapted the questionnaire and tested its reliability and validity in a Brazilian primary care setting. METHOD A pilot study with 204 consecutive primary care attenders in Sao Paulo, Brazil, verified the internal consistency and factor structure of the questionnaire...

INTRODUCTION The impact of a driver's cognitive capability on traffic safety has not been adequately studied. This study examined the relationship between cognitive failures, driving errors and accident data. METHOD Professional drivers from Iran (160 males, ages 18-65) participated in this study. The cognitive failures questionnaire (CFQ) and the driver error questionnaire were administered....

The Child Feeding Questionnaire (CFQ) assesses parental feeding attitudes, beliefs and practices concerned with child feeding and obesity proneness. The questionnaire has been developed in the U.S., and validation studies in other countries are limited. The aim of this study was to examine the psychometric properties of the CFQ in Sweden and the associations between parenting practices and chil...

OBJECTIVES Postoperative cognitive decline (POCD) is a frequent complication after cardiac surgeries. It remains unclear how relevant this decline in psychometric results is for daily life. The aim of the study was to assess cognitive failures, as seen by patients and close relatives, on a quantitative level. METHODS In addition to an extensive neuropsychological test battery, we interviewed ...