UNLABELLED Acoustic rhinometry is routinely used for the evaluation of nasal patency. OBJECTIVE To investigate whether the technique is able to identify the impairment of velopharyngeal (VP) activity in individuals with clinical diagnosis of velopharyngeal insufficiency (VPI). METHODS Twenty subjects with repaired cleft palate and inadequate velopharyngeal function (IVF) and 18 non-cleft co...

OBJECTIVE To translate, adapt and validate the Smartphone Addiction Inventory (SPAI) in a Brazilian population of young adults. METHOD We employed the translation and back-translation method for the adaptation of the Brazilian version SPAI (SPAI-BR). The sample consisted of 415 university students. Data was collected through an electronic questionnaire, which consisted of the SPAI-BR and the ...

Violent behaviour risk assessment is currently one of the most relevant research areas in the Psychology of Crime. Various scales for violence risk assessment have been developed in recent years through research on criminal careers and risk factors. One such instrument is the Sexual Violence Risk Assessment-20 (SVR-20), translated and adapted to Spanish by the Advanced Studies in Violence Group...

OBJECTIVE Concentrating on oncogenic role and increased plasma expression of microRNA(miR) 106b~25 clusters (involving miR 106b, miR 93 and miR 25), we evaluated significance of the over-expression of plasma miR 106b~25 in GC. METHODS Based on 65 pairs matched GC patients and health controls, we explored clinical significance of miR 106b~25 for GC and compared their diagnostic performance wit...

BACKGROUND Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is associated with academic difficulties both short- and long-term. The aim of the study was to provide a new brief ADHD screening scale that could be easily used by teachers and educational professionals in elementary schools. METHOD Participants were teachers of 158 children with a prior diagnosis of ADHD and 169 children without a ...

We propose efficient nonparametric statistics to compare medical imaging modalities in multi-reader multi-test data and to compare markers in longitudinal ROC data. The proposed methods are based on the weighted area under the ROC curve, which includes the area under the curve and the partial area under the curve as special cases. The methods maximize the local power for detecting the differenc...

BACKGROUND The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) is a tool to measure the risk for mental disorders in children. The aim of this study is to describe the diagnostic efficiency and internal structure of the SDQ in the sample of children studied in the Spanish National Health Survey 2006. METHODS A representative sample of 6,773 children aged 4 to 15 years was studied. The data wer...

AIM The aim of this paper was to investigate the value of Global Registry of Acute Coronary Events (GRACE) and thrombolysis in myocardial infarction (TIMI) risk scores for risk stratification and prognosis in female patients with non-ST segment elevation acute coronary syndrome (NSTE-ACS). METHODS Non-elderly (<65 years) and elderly (≥65 years) female patients with NSTE-ACS (totally 869 cases...

BACKGROUND The application of rTMS in Depression has been very well investigated over the last few years. However, little is known about predictors of non-response associated with rTMS treatment. OBJECTIVE This study examined neurophysiological parameters (EEG and ERP) in 90 depressed patients treated with rTMS and psychotherapy and sought to identify predictors of non-response. METHODS Thi...

Many statistical studies report p-values for inferential purposes. In several scenarios, the stochastic aspect of p-values is neglected, which may contribute to drawing wrong conclusions in real data experiments. The stochastic nature of p-values makes their use to examine the performance of given testing procedures or associations between investigated factors to be difficult. We turn our focus...