[Purpose] The purpose of this study was to compare the item difficulty degree between the Pediatric Balance Scale and Fullerton Advanced Balance scale for children with cerebral palsy. [Subjects and Methods] Forty children with cerebral palsy (male=17, female=23) voluntarily participated in the study. Item difficulty was expressed in the Rasch analysis using a logit value, with a higher value i...

PURPOSE The purpose of the present study was to validate the use of the abbreviated version of the World Health Organization Quality of Life (WHOQOL-BREF) questionnaire with medical students. METHODS A sample of 274 medical students in their fourth and fifth years of study (80% response rate) completed the WHOQOL-BREF instrument. The four-domain factor structure of the questionnaire was teste...

Objetivo: analisar a qualidade de vida idosos integrantes um centro convivência mediante aplicação das escalas World Health Organization Quality of Life (WHOQOL) -bref e WHOQOL-OLD. Método: trata-se estudo descritivo inferencial, abordagem quantitativa, com 58 atendimento pela equipe multiprofissional. Para obtenção dos dados foram utilizados sociodemográficos as WHOQOL-bref Resultados: maior m...

Risk of suicide is more common in patients with psychiatric disorders and poor quality of life. The aim of this study was to find out the prevalence of psychiatric morbidity and its relationship with suicide attempters. Materials and MethodThe cross sectional study was carried out in Psychiatric department of MNR Medical College and Hospital. A total 70 cases of first suicide attempts were incl...

BACKGROUND Military service is considered to be a hidden variable underlying current knowledge about well-being in the elderly. This study aimed to examine life satisfaction and quality of life in Australia's surviving male Korean War veterans and a community comparison group, and to investigate any association with war deployment-related factors. METHODS Participants completed a postal quest...