BACKGROUND Early improvement with treatment is thought to be important in patients with first-episode schizophrenia, yet a valid definition is still outstanding. AIMS To develop a valid definition of early improvement and test its predictive validity regarding response and remission. METHOD We examined 188 in-patients with first-episode schizophrenia. Early improvement was defined as improv...

Rationale: Global Leadership Initiative on Malnutrition (GLIM) criteria were developed in order to reach a consensus regarding the diagnosis of undernutrition clinical setting. The present study aims assess concurrent and predictive validity GLIM hospitalized patients, namely as predictor for home discharge.

OBJECTIVE To evaluate performance characteristics of DSM-IV Personality Disorders (PDs) criteria. METHOD Six hundred and sixty-eight adults recruited for the Collaborative Longitudinal Personality Disorders Study (CLPS) were assessed with diagnostic interviews. RESULTS Within-category inter-relatedness was evaluated by Cronbach's alpha and median intercriterion correlations (MIC). Cronbach'...

PURPOSE To summarize currently existing research regarding the assessment of functional capacity in low back injured workers. METHOD Literature review. RESULTS Methods of functional capacity evaluation are described and critical components of an examination of functional capacity identified in relationship to federal occupational categorization and guidelines. CONCLUSIONS Evaluation of th...

The issue of volatility bands is re-visited. It is shown how the rolling geometric mean of a price series can serve as the centerline of a novel set of bands that enjoy a number of favorable properties including predictive validity. Acknowledgment. Many thanks are due to A. Venetoulias of Quadrant Management for introducing me to Bollinger bands, to K. Thompson of Granite Portfolios for the inc...

Intelligence is considered the strongest single predictor of scholastic achievement. However, little is known regarding the predictive validity of well-established intelligence tests for school grades. We analyzed the predictive validity of four widely used intelligence tests in German-speaking countries: The Intelligence and Development Scales (IDS), the Reynolds Intellectual Assessment Scales...

OBJECTIVE Acceptance and readiness to seek professional help have shown to be important factors for favourable audiological rehabilitation outcomes. Theories from health psychology such as the transtheoretical (stages-of-change) model could help understand behavioural change in people with hearing impairment. In recent studies, the University of Rhode Island change assessment (URICA) has been f...

introduction. one of the proplems that both medical students and educational programmers are involved in is the importance of basic science materials in comprehention of clinical subjects and student's performance after that. our goal is to measure the correlation coefficient between the cbse and cpse and the predictive validity of cbse for cpie. methods. analytic cross-sectional study was...