Background: This study aims to validate the short version of Intolerance Uncertainty Scale-12 (IUS-12).Methods: A comprehensive set questionnaires, including IUS-12, STAI-T, PSWQ, CES-D, and K-CSI, was administered completed by 404 participants. The average age participants 31.29 years (SD=9.18), comprising 114 men, 287 women, 3 individuals identifying with other gender. We conducted a factor a...

BACKGROUND Globally, an estimated 289,000 maternal deaths occurred in 2013. Majority of these deaths occurred in sub-Saharan Africa and Southern Asia. Mobility of pastoralists is a well-recognized survival strategy in arid and semi-arid land of sub-Saharan Africa. However governments often encourage settlement as a solution to the difficulty of providing health services for mobile pastoralists....

OBJECTIVE To examine the association of household food insecurity with child self- or proxy-reported health-related quality of life (HRQOL). DESIGN Cross-sectional telephone survey from January 1, 2000, through June 30, 2000. PARTICIPANTS Three hundred ninety-nine children who live in 36 counties of the Delta region of Arkansas, Louisiana, and Mississippi. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Household ...

OBJECTIVES Assess the benefits of green renovation on self-reported health of primarily elderly residents of a low-income public housing apartment building. DESIGN AND SETTING Using questions from the Medicare Health Outcomes Survey, we interviewed residents at baseline and 1 year after green renovation of their 101-unit building in Mankato, Minnesota, comparing self-reported mental and physi...

Background Despite the implementation of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) since 2005 in Nigeria, the level of health insurance coverage remains low. The study aims to examine the predictors of enrolment in the NHIS among women of reproductive age in Nigeria.   Methods Secondary data from the 2013 Nigeria Demographic and Health Survey (NDHS) were utilized to ex...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the association between pesticide exposure and suicidal ideation in rural areas of China. METHODS The analysis involved data from a survey of a representative sample of 9811 rural residents in Zhejiang province who had been asked about the storage of pesticides at home and about whether or not they had considered suicide within the 2 years before the interview. The Ch...

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Documents reviewed and approved include: 1) IRB Application 2) Protocol (iRIS version 1.1) and Appendices E1,2,3,4 and 5 3) Informed Consent dated 12/10/2012 (iRIS version 1.0) 4) Screening Script (iRIS version 1.1) 5) Flyer (iRIS version 1.1) 6) FORMS Health Questionnaire, Vital Flow Sheet, Physician Check List, Subject Instructions, Master Key, Freezer Log, Study Notes, Study Subject Call Log...

BACKGROUND Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory (PedsQL) is a measure to assess health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in children and adolescents. It is formed by 23 items adapted to children age and includes a parent proxy report version. With four multidimensional subscales and three summary scores, it measures health as defined by WHO. The concepts measured by this instrument are 'physical f...

Usability testing, commonly conducted for commercial software to ensure that it meets the needs of the end user, is likewise vital to creating effective training software employing VR technologies. However, developers often limit software testing to expert evaluation (by other developers or subject matter experts [SMEs]) to identify potential problems that might impede the usability or acceptab...