Context : Patient-reported outcomes are widely used in health care. The Disablement the Physically Active (DPA) Scale Short Form-8 (SF-8) was recently proposed as a valid scale for physically active population. However, further psychometric testing of DPA SF-8 has not been completed, and structure assessed using sample adolescent athletes. Objective To assess high-school Main Outcome Measure(s)...

Based on the "complementary-congruence model" of person-environment fit, this study focuses on housing in old age as an interaction between housing needs and housing conditions in urban settings. The research aims are (1) to establish a set of housing-related person-environment (p-e) fit indices based on the relationship between environmental needs and existing conditions in different physical ...

The Forced Choice Recognition (FCR) and the Critical Item Analysis (CIA) indices of the California Verbal Learning Test-II (CVLT-II) have been identified by the CVLT-II test developers as potentially useful, brief screening indicators of effort in neuropsychological assessment. This retrospective study analyzes performance on these measures in three groups: (1) clinically referred individuals; ...

Abstract Background Stress and burnout commonly threaten the mental health of medical students in Malaysia elsewhere. This study aimed to explore interrelations psychological distress, emotional intelligence, personality traits, academic stress, among students. Methods A cross-sectional was conducted with 241 Validated questionnaires were administered measure burnout, respectively. structural e...

To draw valid inferences regarding growth parameters from accelerated longitudinal or cohortsequential designs requires no cohort differences among the cohort-specific trajectories. Conventional structural equation modeling (SEM) fit indices have been regularly used to imply the existence of a common trajectory across cohorts. We argue that adequate fit implied by these SEM indices may indicate...

A central problem in the application of exploratory factor analysis is deciding how many factors to retain (m). Although this is inherently a model selection problem, a model selection perspective is rarely adopted for this task. We suggest that Cudeck and Henly's (1991) framework can be applied to guide the selection process. Researchers must first identify the analytic goal: identifying the (...

BACKGROUND & AIMS Two European randomized trials (N = 30,000) compared guaiac fecal occult blood testing with quantitative fecal immunochemical testing (FIT) and showed better attendance rates and test characteristics for FIT. We aimed to identify the most cost-effective FIT cutoff level for referral to colonoscopy based on data from these trials and allowing for differences in screening ages. ...