INTRODUCTION Delirium is a clinical syndrome that negatively affects the outcomes of the intensive care units patients if undetected early and treated well. However, this condition remains under recognized and poorly managed by health care providers including nurses. The objective of this study was to check nurses' knowledge level about delirium recognition. MATERIALS & METHODS This was a cro...

Background: Globally, the culture of health care has been changing.The health professionals must have the best available education and training to improve the health outcomes. Good education is a backbone for an effective physiotherapy intervention and good patient care. Physiotherapy education has evolved widely in developed countries whereas in Nepal, the education has started very recently a...

In this study, we present a metric of consensus for Likert-type scales. The statistic provides the level agreement any given number response options as percentage among respondents. With aim, use geometric framework that allows us to analytically derive positional indicator. is obtained relative weight distance from point containing proportions observations fall in each category centre regular ...

This bibliometric analysis focuses on publications related to the Likert scale using VOSViewer based Google Scholar data. study was conducted determine number of international trend research development a in time interval between years 0-0. The data search carried out PoP (Publish or Perish) software with keywords Scale Mathematics. is form journals sample 1000 journals. Then were analyzed and ...

This study examines the level of acceptance of a robot within the elderly. ’Does more knowledge of a robot lead to a higher level of acceptance?’ Scenarios based on assistive technologies have been developed for this study. These scenarios provided knowledge to the two groups which were defined as Group A and Group B. The difference between the groups was the order in which the experiment was c...

The current study aimed at exploring the knowledge and beliefs of men aged forty years and over towards prostate cancer screening and early detection in three Arab countries. The field work was conducted in three countries; Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Jordan, during the period February through December 2011. Our target population were men aged 40 years and over. It was a population-based cross sect...

The population of Japan is aging rapidly, and maintaining the quality of life of elderly people has become an important issue in contemporary Japan. This study was conducted to verify the validity of the self-administered visual analogue scale (VAS) for assessing the health status of elderly people. A survey was conducted in two villages in western Japan in 2003. A total of 2040 participants, a...