Purpose: Stuttering is a fluency disorder that mostly begins in childhood and affects many people our societies. No standardized screening tools are available to check for stuttering the Indian school-going population. Thus, study aimed at developing tool identify children who stutter among population using Delphi-based approach. Methods: This was carried out four phases. During first phase, fi...

BACKGROUND The use of a simple screening questionnaire to detect persistent airflow obstruction (AO) in COPD may facilitate the early, accurate diagnosis of COPD in general practice settings. OBJECTIVE This study developed an original persistent AO questionnaire for screening individuals with COPD in a general Japanese population. METHODS A working group was established to generate initial ...

BACKGROUND Addressing the shortage of health service providers (doctors and nurses) in rural health centres remains a huge challenge. The lack of motivation of health service providers to serve in rural areas is one of the major reasons for such shortage. While many studies have aimed at analysing the reasons for low motivation, hardly any studies in India have focused on developing valid and r...

Objectives To the importance of screening students’ mental health and lack of a customized tool based on prevalent psychopathological problems in students, the present study aims to develop and examine the psychometric properties of electronic mental health assessment device for high school students-parent form and teacher form.  Methods The study sample included 1697 teachers and 1186 parents...