The purposes of this investigation were first to predict reported PA (physical activity) behavior and self-esteem using a multidimensional physical self-concept model and second to describe perceptions of multidimensional physical self-concept (e.g., strength, endurance, sport competence) among athletes with physical disabilities. Athletes (N = 36, M age = 16.11, SD age = 2.8) completed the Phy...

BACKGROUND Postnatal care is the neglected area of pregnancy care, despite repeated calls to improve it. Changes would require assessment, which should include women's views. No suitable satisfaction questionnaire exists to enable this. AIM To develop a multidimensional psychometric postnatal satisfaction self-completion instrument. SETTING Ten maternity services in south west England from ...

VAN DIXHOORN and FOLGERING [1] present an insightful and thoughtful analysis of the Nijmegen Questionnaire and its role in the detection and monitoring of dysfunctional breathing, particularly in people with asthma. There is now growing recognition of the multidimensional nature of asthma and the variety of drivers (physiological, inflammatory, environmental, psychological, perceptual, behaviou...

The aim of this study was to examine the extent to which differences in risky sexual behavior (RSB) between males and females is mediated by their personality traits and coping styles. Participants were 180 first-year undergraduate students who were evaluated with the Tridimensional Personality Questionnaire (TPQ; Cloninger, 1987); the Multidimensional Coping Inventory (COPE; Carver, Scheier, &...

BACKGROUND The Multiple Sclerosis International Quality Of Life (MusiQoL) questionnaire, a 31-item, multidimensional, self-administrated questionnaire that is available in 14 languages including Spanish, has been validated using a large international sample. We investigated the validity and reliability of the Spanish version of MusiQoL in Spain. METHODS Consecutive patients with different typ...

This paper introduces the notion of multidimensional fuzzy finite tree automata (MFFTA) and investigates its closure properties from the area of automata and language theory. MFFTA are a superclass of fuzzy tree automata whose behavior is generalized to adapt to multidimensional fuzzy sets. An MFFTA recognizes a multidimensional fuzzy tree language which is a regular tree language so that for e...

BACKGROUND The GOLD multidimensional classification of COPD severity combines the exacerbation risk with the symptom experience, for which 3 different questionnaires are permitted. This study investigated differences in physical activity (PA) in the different GOLD quadrants and patient's distribution in relation to the questionnaire used. METHODS 136 COPD patients (58±21% FEV1 predicted, 34F/...

PURPOSE To construct a multidimensional questionnaire that analyses the epileptic child quality of life from the parental point of view. METHOD The pilot questionnaire was composed of 157 questions distributed in several dimensions. Fifty-one epileptic children's parents answered the questionnaire. The instrument was tested in its diverse properties: frequency of endorsement, homogeneity (Cro...

"Quality of Life" is a multidimensional measure encompassing the physical, emotional and social functioning of the child. The asthma specific questionnaire contains 23 questions (items) in three areas (domains) of activity, symptoms and emotions. The objective of the present study was to validate the Paediatric Asthma Quality of Life Questionnaire "PAQLQ"(copyright 1991 McMaster University). If...

Self-reports were collected during the VESPA2 national survey [1] and included three blocks of data: the 7-dimension PROQOL-HIV questionnaire [2], a 22-symptom checklist [3], and 21 binary indicators about clinical status. Data were analysed using bootstrapped sparse PLS (HRQL and symptoms only), and SGCCA (three blocks). Model hyper parameters (number of components, κ, and L1 penalty, λ) were ...