BACKGROUND The objectives of this study were to test the factor structure and internal consistency of the 12-item General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12) and the Subjective Vitality Scale (VS) in elderly French people, and to test the relationship between these two questionnaires. METHODS Using a standard 'forward-backward' translation procedure, the English language versions of the two instrum...

STUDY OBJECTIVE To develop a self administered Chinese (mainland) version of the Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36) for use in health related quality of life measurements in China. DESIGN A three stage protocol was followed including translation, tests of scaling construction and scoring assumptions, validation, and normalisation. SETTING 1000 households in 18 communities of Hangzhou. PARTI...

Study objective: To develop a self administered Chinese (mainland) version of the Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36) for use in health related quality of life measurements in China. Design: A three stage protocol was followed including translation, tests of scaling construction and scoring assumptions, validation, and normalisation. Setting: 1000 households in 18 communities of Hangzhou. Particip...

BACKGROUND While benefits of workplace physical exercise on physical health is well known, little is known about the psychosocial effects of such initiatives. This study evaluates the effect of workplace versus home-based physical exercise on psychosocial factors among healthcare workers. METHODS A total of 200 female healthcare workers (Age: 42.0, BMI: 24.1) from 18 departments at three hosp...

We tested the hypothesis that 75 g of whole-shelled walnuts/day added to the Western-style diet of healthy young men would beneficially affect semen quality. A randomized, parallel two-group dietary intervention trial with single-blind masking of outcome assessors was conducted with 117 healthy men, age 21-35 yr old, who routinely consumed a Western-style diet. The primary outcome was improveme...

The research aims to evaluate the impact of local industrial pollution on radial growth in affected Norway spruce (Picea abies (L.) Karst.) and silver fir (Abies alba Mill.) stands Tarnița study area Suceava. For northeastern Romania, mining operation constituted a hotspot pollution. primary processing non-ferrous ores containing heavy metals form complex sulfides was main cause region from 196...

The purpose of this study is to investigate the application Scale for Total Impression Drawings (STID) in assessment tree-drawing test. Forty-three tests were evaluated by three raters using STID. validity factor structure was examined confirmatory analysis (CFA). A three-factor model “vitality” (? = 0.90), “gentleness” 0.89), and “reality” 0.89) confirmed fit indexes adequate (CFI =.984, RMSEA...

OBJECTIVE To test psychometrics of the Short Form 36 Health Survey version 2 (SF-36v2) and the Quality of Life Scale for Drug Addicts (QOL-DAv2.0) in Chinese mainland patients with methadone maintenance treatment (MMT). METHODS A total of 1,212 patients were recruited from two MMT clinics in Xi'an, China. Reliability was estimated with Cronbach's α and intra-class correlation (ICC). Convergen...