background and objectives: this study aimed to validate the west haven-yale multidimensional pain inventory (whympi) for iranian patients with chronic pain. methods: 585 patients with chronic pain in legs, back, hands, neck and shoulders were entered into this study. the west haven-yale multidimensional pain inventory (whympi) was used for assessment of pain in these patients. for validation of...

OBJECTIVE To follow up 2 rehabilitation strategies for patients with chronic pain: a 2-day interdisciplinary team assessment followed by either (i) a 4-week outpatient multimodal rehabilitation programme, or (ii) a subsequent rehabilitation plan. METHODS After a 2-day interdisciplinary team assessment at our pain rehabilitation clinic, 296 consecutive patients were selected to undergo either ...

This paper recommends an approach on how to assess the Air Transportation System (ATS) that draws on the results in [1], and considers the 3 pillars of sustainability: economy, ecology and society. A framework has been developed to conduct sustainability studies of ATS and its sub elements separately. The framework shows the combination of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), Life Cycle Cost Assessment...

Although numerous studies have examined the psychometric properties and clinical utility of the Personality Assessment Inventory in correctional contexts, only two studies to date have specifically focused on suicide ideation. This article examines the convergent validity of the Suicide Ideation Scale and the Suicide Potential Index on the Personality Assessment Inventory in a large, nontreatme...

PPA: Primary Progressive Aphasia; PIA: Progressive Ideomotor Apraxia; CPAP: Continuous Positive Airway Pressure; MoCA: Montreal Cognitive Assessment; MINI: Mini-International Neuropsychiatric Interview; WASI: Wechsler Abbreviated Scale of Intelligence; RBANS: Repeatable Battery for the Assessment of Neuropsychological Status; DRS: Dementia Rating Scale TMT-A & B: Trail Making Test-A and B; GAD-...

PPA: Primary Progressive Aphasia; PIA: Progressive Ideomotor Apraxia; CPAP: Continuous Positive Airway Pressure; MoCA: Montreal Cognitive Assessment; MINI: Mini-International Neuropsychiatric Interview; WASI: Wechsler Abbreviated Scale of Intelligence; RBANS: Repeatable Battery for the Assessment of Neuropsychological Status; DRS: Dementia Rating Scale TMT-A & B: Trail Making Test-A and B; GAD-...

Life cycle assessment is a quantitative method to analyze the environmental impact that consists of four main activities: goal and scope definition, life inventory, assessment, interpretation. The application in palm oil industry are very important already conducted by many researchers. However, most difficult task inventory. In this research, study proposed software support inventory productio...

BACKGROUND Accuracy of temperament assessment is a prerequisite in research studies. To identify the extent to which parental assessment of child temperament is biased by their personal attributes, we proposed a new structural equation model, in which biases of parental attributes in their assessment of child temperament can be separated from the true (i.e. non-biased) associations between the ...

This paper examines the responses of two sample of prospective teachers (New Zealand, n = 324; and Spain, n = 672) to the Teachers' Conceptions of Assessment inventory (English and Spanish respectively). The inventory captures four major intentions for assessment (i.e., improvement, irrelevance, school and student accountability). The conceptions of prospective teachers about the nature and pur...