OBJECTIVE To assess the quality of life (QoL) of patients with cystic fibrosis (CF) followed at a university referral center for CF. METHODS A cross-sectional study involving application of the Cystic Fibrosis Questionnaire (CFQ) and Shwachman score in CF patients between April of 2008 and June of 2009. RESULTS The sample consisted of 75 patients. The mean age was 12.5 ± 5.1 years (range, 6...

OBJECTIVE To develop a conceptually and semantically valid English version of a French disease-specific measure of quality of life for children, adolescents, and adults with cystic fibrosis (CF). METHODS Following a backward and forward translation of the measure, 60 participants, including 20 children, 20 parents, and 20 adolescents/young adults completed the Cystic Fibrosis Questionnaire (C...

PURPOSE The purpose of the study was to evaluate subjective (self-rated), family-rated, and objective (researcher-rated) cognitive functions in patients with breast cancer after chemotherapy. METHOD We conducted a prospective study to trace self-rated cognitive functions in 30 patients with breast cancer at the completion of chemotherapy (T0) and 6 months later (T1). Subjective cognitive func...

Orthostatic intolerance (OI) is common in Long Covid. Physical counterpressure manoeuvres (PCM) may improve OI other disorders. We characterised the blood pressure-rising effect of PCM using surface electromyography (sEMG) and investigated its association with fatigue adults Participants performed an active stand beat-to-beat hemodynamic monitoring sEMG both thighs, including at 3-minutes post-...

Idea: • Transform each original program into a public program and a private program. • Public program: execute on the public cloud; perform most execution except for evaluating predicates of branch statements. • Private program: execute on private cloud; evaluate predicates. Proposed Techniques: • Replace predicates of the branch statements in the original program with control flow query (CFQ) ...

Post-exertional malaise (PEM) is regarded as the hallmark symptom in chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS). The aim of current study to explore differences CFS patients with and without PEM indicators aortic stiffness, autonomic nervous system function, severity fatigue. One-hundred one met Fukuda criteria. A Chronic Fatigue Questionnaire (CFQ) Impact Scale (FIS) were used assess level mental physical...

BACKGROUND The development of family-based programs for child weight management requires an understanding of parents' difficulties in managing children's eating and physical activity behaviors; however, knowledge about the specific behaviors that parents find most difficult to address is still limited. The Lifestyle Behavior Checklist (LBC) is an Australian instrument that assesses parents' per...

Based on the executive-attention theory of working memory capacity (WMC; e.g., Kane, Conway, Hambrick, & Engle, 2007) we tested the relations among WMC, mind wandering, and goal neglect in a sustained-attention-to-response task (SART; a go/no-go task). In three SART versions, making conceptual versus perceptual processing demands, subjects periodically indicated their thought content when probe...

INTRODUCTION Insight into parents' perceptions of their children's eating behaviors is crucial for the development of successful childhood obesity programs. However, links between children's eating behaviors and parental feeding practices and concerns have yet to be established. This study aims to examine associations between parental perceptions of preschoolers' eating behaviors and parental f...

BACKGROUND Attention deficits are common post stroke and result in poorer functional outcomes. This study examined the frequency of attention deficits after incident stroke and their correlates. METHOD Attention of 94 stroke survivors was assessed using the Bells test, Trails Making Test A/B, 2.4- and 2.0-second trials of the Paced Auditory Serial Addition Test (PASAT), and Integrated Auditor...