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Mental Measurement of Pre-School Children

two contains a valuable survey of the work done previous to the MerrillPalmer Scale in the testing of infants and children of the pre-school ago, with critical comments. The chapter carries an implicit argument for the need of such a battery of tests, carefully standardized and statistically evaluated, adapted to children of five years and under. The criteria for the selection of tests for chil...

Measurement of changes in empathy during dental school.

Empathy in the health care setting is the ability to understand a patient's experiences and feelings and the capability to communicate this understanding. Although empathy has been shown to play an important role in the dentist-patient relationship and is a core competence for dentists, no measure of empathy has been validated in the dental setting. Further, little is known about changes in emp...

Measurement of specific medical school stress: translation of the “Perceived Medical School Stress Instrument” to the German language

OBJECTIVE Medical students encounter specific stressors during their studies. As a result, they develop anxiety, depression and burnout symptoms more frequently than their similarly aged, but employed counterparts. In 1984, Vitaliano et al. published a 13-item instrument for the measurement of stress specific to medical school: the "Perceived Medical School Stress Instrument" (PMSS). Since then...

Alfred P. Sloan School of Management a Methodology for Decision Assumption Measurement a Methodology for Decision Assumption Measurement

Normal measurement of peak expiratory Flow rate in the high school children in Babol, north of Iran

Background: Peak Expiratory Flow Rate (PEFR) is recommended as a tool for control of asthma. The purpose of this study was to determine the normal value of PEFR in the healthy high school children in Babol, Iran. Methods: This study was conducted on 470 healthy high school children (285 girls, 185 boys with the age between 14-18 years). For the determination of PEFR we used Mini Wright Peak Flo...