The purpose of our study was to determine the ways in which adolescents with congenital cardiac disease believed that the condition had affected their life, and how these views were related to their perceived health. Interviews were conducted with a series of 37 adolescents, 17 girls and 20 boys, aged from 11 to 18, as they attended the clinics of 4 paediatric cardiologists in a teaching hospit...

Acute Exacerbations of COPD (AECOPD) are the commonest cause of hospitalisation for patients with COPD. A number of interventions are known to improve care for such patients. Internationally and in Ireland, there is significant variation in care delivered to such patients. We reviewed admissions with AECOPD (n = 174) to an Irish teaching hospital during one year, to determine if recommended int...

Abstract Background and Aim: The aim of this study was to investigate the mediating role of executive functions in the relationship between fine motor skills and reading skills in students with reading disorders. Method: This research was descriptive-correlation and structural equation modeling. The research population of the study included all students with reading disorders who referred t...

BACKGROUND The aim of our study was to investigate anticipated adaptation among patients in the subacute phase of Spinal Cord Injury (SCI). METHODS We used an observational longitudinal design. Patients with SCI (N = 44) rated their actual, previous and expected future Quality of Life (QoL) at three time points: within two weeks of admission to the rehabilitation center (RC), a few weeks befo...

OBJECTIVES To investigate the association between pain and functional independence in older adults during and after admission to rehabilitation after an acute illness or injury. DESIGN Prospective, observational cohort study. SETTING One community and one Veterans Affairs rehabilitation center. PARTICIPANTS Individuals aged 65 and older admitted for rehabilitation after an acute illness o...

OBJECTIVE To measure patient functional outcomes across rehabilitation centers. SETTING Traumatic Brain Injury Model System (TBIMS) centers. PARTICIPANTS Patients with traumatic brain injury (TBI) admitted to 21 TBIMS rehabilitation centers (N = 6975, during 1999-2008). DESIGN Retrospective analysis of prospectively collected data. MAIN MEASURES Center-specific functional outcomes of TB...

The aim of the research presented in this paper was to identify the relation of mechanical engineering students’ individual motives and their choice of specialty to success in their studies. The research includes consideration of motivational factors from a number of aspects. The results suggest a connection between academic success and the motives of professional advancement, success in the pr...

OBJECTIVES (1) To study the natural decline in functional capacity (FC) of healthy aging workers; (2) to compare FC to categories of workload; and (3) to study the differences in decline between men and women. DESIGN Cross-sectional design. SETTING A rehabilitation center at a university medical center. PARTICIPANTS Volunteer sample of healthy workers (N=701) between 20 and 60 years of ag...