OBJECTIVES The first aim was to make an inventory of available instruments and questionnaires for the assessment of disabilities in personal care in patients with rheumatic disorders. The second aim was to investigate which of these instruments have acceptable, methodological quality with regard to reliability, validity and responsiveness. The third aim was to investigate the assumption that co...

background: adherence to prescribed therapeutic regimen is an important element of self-care behaviors in cardiac patients. awareness of disease may play an important role in patient adherence. thus, this study was conducted to examine the relationship between awareness of the disease and adherence to therapeutic regimen among cardiac patients admitted to selected hospitals in mashhad, iran. me...

Cancer patients can obtain information about their illness through a variety of media sources. Therefore, it is important to know how medical journalists treat cancer-related issues; to that end, we sent self-administered questionnaires to 364 journalists in 82 organisations who had reported on medical issues for the Japanese media, asking for their reasons for reporting on cancer-related issue...

This paper presents a pilot study of a novel context modelling method for capturing an evolving model of information needs during search tasks to assist users in satisfying their long-term needs. Short-term sessions are clustered using terms extracted from explicitly marked search results to create and update aspects of a user profile. The terms that most significantly define the aspects of a u...

Emerging personal lifelog (PL) collections contain permanent digital records of information associated with individuals’ daily lives. This can include materials such as emails received and sent, web content and other documents with which they have interacted, photographs, videos and music experienced passively or created, logs of phone calls and text messages, and also personal and contextual d...

Information technologies are intensively used in modern psychometric. Interactive environment for psychometrics diagnostics enables evaluation of cognitive capabilities using several multimedial tests, collecting information about users, organizing this information in user’s personal profiles, visualization, interpretation and analysis of tests results, control over procedure of testing and mak...