BACKGROUND People often have misperceptions (overestimation or underestimation) about the health-related behaviours they engage in, which may have adverse consequences for their susceptibility to behavioural change. Misperception is usually measured by combining and comparing quantified behavioural self-reports with subjective classification of the behaviour. Researchers assume that such assess...

To assess the real-time transmission video’s quality, this paper persents a approach which used FR video quality assessment (VQA) model to satisfy the objective and subjective measurement requirement. If we want to get the reference video in the measuring terminal and to make a assessment, there are two problems which are how to certain the reference video frame and how to make the objective sc...

OBJECTIVE To verify the relationship between the adductor pollicis muscle thickness test and the subjective global assessment and to correlate it with other anthropometric methods. METHODS This observational cross-sectional study was conducted in the intensive care unit of a cardiology hospital in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. The hospitalized patients underwent subjective global as...

OBJECTIVES The increasing medical expenses of elderly persons in Japan's rapidly ageing society have become a major concern. It is therefore important to elucidate the factors associated with such escalation. Here, we focused on the relationship between subjective self-assessment of oral health, as an index of general health, and medical expenses (excluding dental repair) under the hypothesis t...

OBJECTIVE To validate the Subjective Global Nutritional Assessment (SGNA) questionnaire for Brazilian children and adolescents. METHODS A cross-sectional study with 242 patients, aged 30 days to 13 years, treated in pediatric units of a tertiary hospital with acute illness and minimum hospitalization of 24h. After permission from the authors of the original study, the following criteria were ...