The identification of occupational carcinogens in the workplace is a major concern of epidemiologists. A novel case-control approach has been developed which includes as a key component the assessment of a subject's occupational exposure history by a two stage process. Firstly, the subject is interviewed to obtain a detailed lifetime job history. Then a team of chemists and hygienists, hired an...

Recent studies have noted positive effects of red clothing on success in competitive sports, perhaps arising from an evolutionary predisposition to associate the color red with dominance status. Red may also enhance judgments of women's attractiveness by men, perhaps through a similar association with fertility. Here we extend these studies by investigating attractiveness judgments of both sexe...

STUDY DESIGN Study of interrater reliability. OBJECTIVE To assess the interrater reliability of data from pain drawings scored by multiple raters and the consistency of the subsequent classification of cases of widespread pain. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA In large health surveys, pain drawings used to capture self-reported pain, and to classify cases of widespread pain, are often scored by s...

Signal detection in clinical trials relies on ratings reliability. We conducted a reliability analysis of site-independent rater scores derived from audio-digital recordings of site-based rater interviews of the structured Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS) in a schizophrenia study. "Dual" ratings assessments were conducted as part of a quality assurance program in a 12-week, double-blind, p...

Despite favorable attitudes being critical to the viability of multirater systems, little is known about the factors that impact rater attitudes. Results from a field study demonstrated that perceptions of organizational politics negatively relate to rater acceptance and cost-benefit evaluations and that these relationships were not moderated by one’s understanding, control, or rater perspectiv...

Personality is an inherent rater’s characteristic influencing rating severity, but very few studies examined their relationship and the findings were inconclusive. This study aimed to re-investigate between raters’ personality severity with more control on relevant variables reliable analysis of severity. Female novice raters ( n = 28) from a demographically homogeneous background recruited rat...

BACKGROUND There are very few observational methods for analysis of biomechanical exposure available in Brazilian-Portuguese. OBJECTIVE This study aimed to cross-culturally adapt and test the measurement properties of the Rapid Upper Limb Assessment (RULA) and Strain Index (SI). METHODS The cross-cultural adaptation and measurement properties test were established according to Beaton et al....