In Italy, the role of a nurse in cancer research is beginning to develop, but instruments developed to delineate the dimensions of the Italian clinical trials nursing role are lacking. This study aimed to translate into Italian the Clinical Trials Nursing Questionnaire (CTNQ) and assess its content validity, internal consistency, and stability reliability. Forward-backward translation and revie...

UNLABELLED BACKGROUND The current healthcare climate is characterized by a constant battle for the provision of quality care with limited resources and with patient satisfaction receiving increased attention, there is a need for reliable and valid assessment measures. This study describes the adaptation, testing and validation of the Risser Patient satisfaction Scale in an oncology care sett...

OBJECTIVES The aim of the study is to determine the concordance between the PROCAM (Prospective Cardiovascular Münster) and Framingham scales in patients receiving highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART). MATERIALS AND METHODS A cross sectional study was conducted in HIV-positive male population who use HAART in a national reference hospital located in Lima, Peru. To evaluate the concord...

The prevalence of oculomotor dysfunctions associated with blast-induced mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) in warfighters has increased as a consequence of recent conflicts. This study evaluated the effectiveness of computerized oculomotor vision screening (COVS) in a military population. Oculomotor functions were assessed with COVS and by conventional methods in 20 U.S. military personnel with...

BACKGROUND Smoking increases the risk of multiple sclerosis (MS) and possibly disease progression. The reliability of self-reported smoking status is unknown in MS. We assessed the reliability of self-reported smoking status among participants in the North American Research Committee on Multiple Sclerosis (NARCOMS) Registry. METHODS In 2004 and 2006, NARCOMS participants reported smoking stat...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the reliability and validity of the Spanish version of the NewCastle Asthma Knowledge Questionnaire (NAKQ) for determining asthma knowledge in teachers. METHODS DESIGN AND SAMPLE A cross-sectional observational study in educational centers of A Coruña providing preschool, primary school and/or compulsory secondary education. Centers were selected by random sampling, s...

INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to determine the accuracy of self-reported diabetes, hypertension and hyperlipidemia in a representative sample of adults (719 men and 837 women) from the south of Spain. METHODS Self-reported data were gathered using a structured questionnaire. Biometric data recorded included blood glucose, total cholesterol and triglyceride concentratio...

BACKGROUND The risk of injuries is of major concern when keeping horses in groups and there is a need for a system to record external injuries in a standardised and simple way. The objective of this study, therefore, was to develop and validate a system for injury recording in horses and to test its reliability and feasibility under field conditions. METHODS Injuries were classified into five...

The effect of friction in the thermal convection instability of granular fluids is studied by means of molecular dynamics simulations. It is found that the transitions between different convective states (zero, one, and two rolls) are primarily governed by the average energy loss per collisions and not by the friction and restitution coefficients separately, and can be roughly described in term...