BACKGROUND The 16-item Vitamin D Status Predictor (VDSP) questionnaire helps to identify, without resorting to a blood test, older adults with low vitamin D concentrations. Our objective was to determine whether a self-administered VDSP was concordant with the VDSP administered by a physician, and to examine the concordance of every single item of the VDSP. METHODS A total of 349 older in- an...

OBJECTIVE The alcohol expectancy construct has become prominent in contemporary psychosocial approaches to understanding alcohol use and abuse. In 1980 Brown and colleagues developed the 90-item Alcohol Expectancy Questionnaire (AEQ) to assess experiences. Rohsenow modified this instrument to create the 40-item Alcohol Effects Questionnaire (AEQ-2). In the present study, we replaced the dichoto...

BACKGROUND Adolescent low back pain (ALBP) can be considered a signal or precursor of a serious organic disease or telltale sign of future incidence of low back pain in adulthood. Published articles on ALBP in Nigeria are not readily available. OBJECTIVES The study's objectives were to investigate the prevalence of Adolescent Low Back Pain (ALBP) among secondary school students in Ibadan, Nig...

The primary objective of this study was to assess the degree mindfulness among university students based on their gender and academic achievement level. To accomplish this, Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire (FFMQ) employed, consisting 39 items categorized into five factors: observation, description, acting with awareness, nonjudging, nonreactivity. questionnaire initially translated Arabic a...

OBJECTIVES This study of Japanese dual-earner couples examined the impact of family and job demands on one's own and one's partner's fatigue as well as gender differences in these effects. METHODS A total of 2,502 parents (1,251 couples) were surveyed using a self-administered questionnaire. A crossover model was tested using structural equation modeling. RESULTS The results of structural e...

There is a variety of inconsistencies in the differences in alcohol use and related problems between male and female genders. This study was aimed at analyzing the gender differences in alcohol use and related problems among university students in Minsk, Belarus. A total of 465 male (average age of 21) and 1030 female (average age of 20.5) students from four major universities in Minsk, Belarus...

background:     purpose:       methods:       results:     conclusion:     eywords : faculty evaluation , student ' s survey the finding of this study showed there were no statistically differences between the dependent and independents variables. however the weak negative correlation was found between age and teaching experience. it means young and less experienced faculty gets better score in...

Four scales that have been used to measure achievement orientations were administered to 399 Australian adult competitive athletes. The Competitive Orientation Inventory (COI), the Sport Orientation Questionnaire (SOQ), the Perception of Success Questionnaire (POSQ), and the Task and Ego Orientation in Sport Questionnaire (TEOSQ) were completed in counterbalanced order. Results showed that the ...