OBJECTIVE To translate, to make the cultural adaptation and to evaluate reproducibility and validity of the Portuguese version of the AQUAREL (Assessment of QUAlity of life and RELated events) questionnaire, which is a specific tool to assess quality of life in pacemaker patients. METHODS We evaluated 202 pacemaker patients: 63 patients during the cross-cultural adaptation stage and 139 durin...

The purpose of the present research paper is to understand questions related M-banking. It time call take up Virtual Banking (VB) with Zero Contact (ZCB) as a preventive measure COVID-19. study also admits comparative analysis on gratification M-banking users considering factors/attributes Kano Model. researcher has undertaken Integrative Approach (IA) for both, literature reviewed and survey s...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To develop and pilot test scales to measure desired health outcomes hypothesized to result from high-quality cancer nursing care: Fortitude Scale, Trust in Nurses Scale, Cancer Patient Optimism Scale, and Authentic Self-Representation Scale. DESIGN Instrument development. SETTING Community cancer support organization. SAMPLE 66 recently treated patients with cancer who ...

BACKGROUND Millions of workers are the victims of different kinds of accidents every year throughout the world. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationships between safety attitude and occurrence of the occupational accidents. METHODS This investigation was a cross-sectional study performed in a gas refinery in south of Iran in 2008. Sample size of this study was 176 people....

Three hundred forty-one dietetics practitioners responded (a 34% response rate) to a 103-item questionnaire that included four subscales. This article focuses on one subscale: assessment of the extent to which dietitians reportedly adhere to the profession's code of ethics as it applies to their own practices. The validity of the survey instrument was confirmed by a panel of experts, and the ov...

BACKGROUND Measuring the impacts of oral conditions on quality of life is an important part of oral health needs assessment. For this purpose a variety of oral health-related quality of life instruments have been developed. To use a scale in a new context or with a different groups of people, it is necessary to re-establish its psychometric properties. The objectives of this study are to develo...

BACKGROUND:According to the literature, Greek questionnaire on study of quality life children and adolescents undergoing brace treatment (BRACE questionnaire, abbreviated as BrQ) is informative reliable, which confirmed by its validation in different countries. This necessitates creation ofanadopted Russian version validation.
 AIM:To perform localization treatment.
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BACKGROUND The Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-Lung (FACT-L) questionnaire, which consists of a core questionnaire (the General Measure of FACT [FACT-G]) and a 9-item Additional Concerns comprised of a 7-item Lung Cancer Subscale (LCS), was developed in an English-speaking culture. The validation of the Japanese FACT-G was reported previously, and this report describes the cross-cultura...

PURPOSE To validate a Stigma Scale of Epilepsy (SSE). METHODS The SSE was completed by 40 adult with epilepsy attending an Outpatient Epilepsy Clinic at the University Hospital of UNICAMP, and by 40 people from the community. People were interviewed on an individual basis; a psychologist read the questions to the subjects who wrote the answers in a sheet. The procedure was the same for all th...