abstract   background: osteoarthritis (oa) is the most common joint disease occuring after middle age. because of the high mobility of the neck, oa is common in the cervical spine. the purpose of this study was to determine and compare the effects of intermittent traction on patients with mild and moderate cervical oa. therefore, 32 patients with cervical oa were recruited.   methods: aclinical...

background : the purpose of this study was to determine reliability and construct validity of a persian version of the gastrointestinal symptoms rating scale (gsrs) in 2 samples of patients with functional gastrointestinal disorders (fgid) and healthy persons. materials and methods : the clinical sample consisted of 143 patients diagnosed with fgid who were referred to the psychosomatic disorde...

ôbjective: âttention deficit hyperactivity disorder (âdhd) is one of the most prevalent psychiatric disorders in children. âccording to concern regarding the growth of these children, this study was carried out to compare height and weight between 5-6-year-old boys with âdhd and those without âdhd in âhvaz, ïran methods: ïn this cross-sectional study, 32 5-6-year-old âdhd boys with the çonners’...

introduction: children with pragmatic language impairment have problems with appropriate use of language according to age and context. assessment and intervention plans designed to be used with a pragmatically impaired child were discussed in this study. materials and methods: the primary method of data collection adopted in this study was observation method. accordingly, communicative partner ...

We examined the effect of sleep deprivation on self-motion perception (vection). We measured the strength of vection, its latency, and its duration in two conditions: Sleep-Deprivation and NormalSleep (by using the between-subject design). For the Sleep-Deprivation condition, participants did not sleep for about 20 hours. We also recorded subjective sleepiness with a subjective rating scale tha...

Task difficulty and validity The Assessment of Capacity for Myoelectric Control (ACMC) is an observational assessment designed to assess a prosthesis user’s ability to operate a myoelectric prosthetic hand in a bimanual task [1]. The prosthesis user is encouraged to select a bimanual task for the assessment. Concern has been raised over the tasks being used in the assessments [2]. Would a prost...

Objective: This article reports findings of three studies addressing convergent validity and test-retest reliability of the Youth Rating Scale of the Behavioral and Emotional Rating Scale–Second Edition (BERS-2). Method: Pearson product–moment correlations were used in all three studies, the first two addressing convergent validity and the third addressing test-retest reliability. Results: Anal...

The validity and reliability of the Outcome Rating Scale (ORS) and the Session Rating Scale (SRS) were evaluated against existing longer measures, including the Outcome Questionnaire-45, Working Alliance Inventory, Depression Anxiety Stress Scale-21, Quality of Life Scale, Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale and General Self-efficacy Scale. The measures were administered to patients referred for psycho...

This scale is constructed to meet the need for an efficient, rapid and economical method of measuring change in schizophrenic patients during the course of psychotropic medication (drug trial) in a multi-cultural, multi-lingual population of low educational level. Items are included only if (1) they can be elicited objectively, (2) they are important symptoms of schizophrenia and (3) they are f...