BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to design a brief questionnaire to measure fears about recurrence and health in cancer survivors. Research involving fear of recurrence has been increasing, indicating that it is an important concern among cancer survivors. METHODS We developed and tested a six-item instrument, the Assessment of Survivor Concerns (ASC). Construct validity was examined ...

Research has shown that stroke has a significant impact on the stroke survivor’s quality of life (QOL). Less well known is the negative impact on the stroke caregiver’s QOL. Yet, poor QOL in caregivers is associated with rehospitalization of the stroke survivor and increased healthcare costs. Given the severe disability and limitations in activities of daily living present in stroke, caregivers...

The survivor principle holds that the competitive process weeds out inefficient firms, so that hypotheses about efficient behavior can be tested by observing how firms actually behave. This principle underlies a large body of empirical work in strategy, economics, and management. But do competitive markets actually display what is efficient? Is the survivor principle reliable? We evaluate the s...

Observational studies on transfusion in trauma comparing high versus low plasma:erythrocyte ratio were prone to survivor bias because plasma administration typically started later than erythrocytes. Therefore, early deaths were categorized in the low plasma:erythrocyte group, whereas early survivors had a higher chance of receiving a higher ratio. When early deaths were excluded, however, a bia...

Zombies and Survivor is a variant of the well-studied game Cops Robbers where zombies (cops) can only move closer to survivor (robber). We consider deterministic version zombie choose their path if multiple options are available. Similar cop number, number graph minimum required capture survivor. In this short note, we solve question by Fitzpatrick et al., proving that Cartesian product two gra...

Hypothesis 3a: The stroke survivor and carer BOA will be internally consistent (calculated using Cronbach’s alpha). Hypothesis 3b: All stroke survivor and carer BOA items will show a significant correlation with the corrected item total i.e. all items will be related closely to the total score of the BOA (Corrected item total correlations). Hypothesis 3c: Each carer BOA item will correlate sign...

conclusions a long-term longitudinal study encompassing integrated research is needed to fully understand the traumatic experiences of caregivers. unless research on tbi or dai trauma is given its proper attention, the burden of trauma and injury on societies will continue to exacerbate globally. context as with care giving and rehabilitation in chronic illnesses, the concern with traumatic bra...