Objective To describe the perceptions of Australian NPs and NP candidates (student NP and NPs in transitional roles but not yet authorised) in regards to their confidence and practice in providing medicine information to patients / clients. Design An electronic survey related to prescribing practices. Setting The survey was open to all Australian NPs (n=250 at time of survey) and NP candidates....

BACKGROUND Self-reported cancer screening behaviors are often overreported and may lead to biased estimates of prevalence and of subgroup differences in screening. We examined whether the tendency to give socially desirable responses was associated with concordance between self-reported colorectal cancer (CRC) screening behaviors and medical records. METHODS Primary care patients (n = 857) ag...

BACKGROUND Socioeconomic differences in health and in use of health care are well known. Most data on socioeconomic differences in health care utilization are based on retrospective self-report in community surveys, but the evidence on the validity of self-reported utilization of health care across socioeconomic groups is limited. The aim of this study was to assess the validity of self-reporte...

Article history: Received 10 August 2015 Received in revised form 1 February 2016 Accepted 1 February 2016 Available online 2 February 2016 Emotional maltreatment (EMT) is an underreported, common, and pernicious type of maltreatment with longlasting negative consequences. This paper examines concordance between youth self-report of EMT and official reports using data from 770 participants in t...

Copulas can be used to describe multivariate dependence structures. We explore the rôle of copulas with fractal support in the study of association measures. 1 General introduction and motivation Copulas are of interest because they link joint distributions to their marginal distributions. Sklar [12] showed that, for any real-valued random variables X1 and X2 with joint distribution H, there ex...

The present study cross-validated self-report pain scales: Verbal Rating Scale (VRS), Facial Expression Scale (FACES), Color Analogue Scale (CAS) and Poker Chip Tool (PCT) in Thai children aged 5-12 years. The concordance with observational measure, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario Pain Scale (CHEOPS) was also tested. Among 100 students, test-retest reliability of all self-report measures...

The phobic fear response appears to resemble an intense form of normal threat responding that can be induced in a nonthreatening situation. However, normative and phobic fear are rarely contrasted directly, thus the degree to which these two types of fear elicit similar neural and bodily responses is not well understood. To examine biological correlates of normal and phobic fear, 21 snake phobi...