OBJECTIVES This study aimed to measure the level and determinants of health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in adults in Kermanshah, a city in the western region of Iran. METHODS Convenience sampling was employed to obtain a sample of 998 adults aged 18 years and older (646 males and 352 females) in the city of Kermanshah. A 2-part self-administered questionnaire was used to collect data over...

STUDY DESIGN A cross-sectional, case-control study. PURPOSE To investigate associations between physical fitness measures and disabilities related to back pain and quality of life (QOL) by the presence of symptomatic lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS) in elderly Korean women. OVERVIEW OF LITERATURE LSS leads to decreased functioning and reduced QOL. However, correlations among physical fitness, d...

BACKGROUND Index measures for health-related quality of life (HRQoL) quantify the desirability (utility) of a certain health state. The commonly used generic index measure, e.g. EuroQol: EQ-5D, may underestimate relevant areas of specific diseases, resulting in lower validity. Disease-specific index measures on the other hand combine disease-specificity and quantification of perceived quality o...

In this paper, by using a special family of filters $mathcal{F}$ on an EQ-algebra $E$, we construct a topology $mathcal{T}_{mathcal{mathcal{F}}}$ on $E$ and show that $(E,mathcal{T}_{mathcal{F}})$ is a topological EQ-algebra. First of all, we give some properties of topological EQ-algebras and investigate the interaction of topological EQ-algebras and quotient topological EQ-algebras. Then we o...

OBJECTIVES To validate the ICECAP-O capability wellbeing measure's German translation in older people with dementia living in a nursing home, and to investigate the influence of proxy characteristics on responses. METHOD Cross-sectional study. For 95 residents living in a German nursing home, questionnaires were completed by nursing professionals serving as proxy respondents. We investigated ...

OBJECTIVE Maximal oxygen uptake (Vo(2max)) of 44 ml kg(-1) min(-1) is an accepted criterion (Vo(2CR)) below which health and fitness for young male adults may be compromised. New algorithms validated for Vo(2CR) screening using the 20 m multistage shuttle run test (20mMST) were developed. METHODS Vo(2max) was assessed in 110 males using a stationary gas analyser in a treadmill test (TT) and i...

STUDY DESIGN Systematic review. OBJECTIVE This systematic review examines validity and responsiveness of three generic preference-based measures in patients with low back pain (LBP). SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA LBP is a very common incapacitating disease with a significant impact on health-related quality of life (HRQoL). Health state utility values can be derived from various preference-bas...

the present study was conducted to investigate how efl learners with distinct levels of emotional intelligence might benefit from critical thinking-based instruction and use different language learning strategies. a further concern of this study was to investigate the relationship among critical thinking, language learning strategy, and emotional intelligence of efl learners. to this end, 88 ef...

Noise in Multiple-Coil Systems(2) Noise is one of the main sources of quality deterioration in Magnetic Resonance (MR) data. It is usually modeled attending to the scanner coil architecture. The complex spatial MR data is typically assumed to be a complex Gaussian process, where the real and imaginary parts of the original signal are corrupted with uncorrelated Gaussian noise with zero mean and...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the practical application and psychometric properties of three health utility measures in a sample of MS patients with a broad range of neurological disability as measured by the Extended Disability Status Scale (EDSS). METHODS Patients randomly selected from two MS clinic registries were assessed using standard clinical methods and completed three generic measures of h...