INTRODUCTION Pain is a common emergency department (ED) complaint. It is important to understand the differences in pain perception among different ethnic and demographic populations. METHODS We applied a standardized painful stimulus to Caucasian and Latino adult patients to determine whether the level of pain reported differed depending on ethnicity (N=100; 50 Caucasian [C], 50 Latino [L] p...

In this paper, we deal with the issue of variability in different measures of linguistic acceptability. It has been argued that acceptability, when measured with the magnitude estimation method (ME), reveals the underlying gradience of linguistic judgments, while other measures, like Likert-scale judgments (e.g. on a 7-point scale) do not provide the same amount of information about the gradien...

background infertility can affect the quality of life of infertile couples. the aim of this study was to develop and measure psychometric properties of “quality of life in infertile couple questionnaire” (qolicq). methods this study was conducted in two qualitative and quantitative phases. qualitative method involved semi-structured interviews of a purposive sample of 34 infertile couples. a co...

BACKGROUND The main aim of this pilot study was to investigate an advanced version of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) for reducing anxiety. METHODS Fifty participants were asked at two times of measurement (T1 and T2 with a rest of 4 weeks) to generate anxiety via the recall of autobiographical memories according to their anxiety. Furthermore, the participants were random...

This study aims to determine students' responses local fermented biotechnology Worksheets. research was a type of qualitative descriptive research. Data collection used questionnaire with Likert scale. trials were carried out 2 scales, they are small scale 8 respondents and large 28 respondents. Based on the assessment results that given small-scale respondents, reached 89% in very good categor...

BACKGROUND Surgical reconstructive planning following Mohs surgery can be a difficult subject for dermatology residents to master. Prior research demonstrates that active learning is preferred and more effective compared to passive learning models and that dermatology residents desire greater complexity and volume in surgical training. We present a novel, active, problem-based learning tool for...