BACKGROUND Interest in the measurement of health related quality of life and psychosocial functioning from the patient's perspective in diabetes mellitus has grown in recent years. The aim of this study is to investigate the psychometric performance of and agreement between the generic EQ-5D and SF-6D and diabetes specific DHP-18 in Type 2 diabetes. This will support the future use of the measu...

Purpose: This study evaluated the validity of 8-item Health-Related Quality Life (HINT-8) instrument for older adults in Korea. Methods: used data from 2019 Korean National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. Health-related quality life distribution ceiling effect were investigated using HINT-8 EuroQol-five-dimensions three-level version (EQ-5D-3L) 1,519 people aged 65 or To examine known-...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Quality of life (QoL) is important to stroke survivors yet is often recorded as a secondary measure in acute stroke randomized controlled trials. We examined whether commonly used stroke outcome measures captured aspects of QoL. METHODS We examined primary outcomes by National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS), Barthel Index (BI) and modified Rankin Scale (mRS),...

BACKGROUND Although medication adherence and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) are two different outcome measures, it is believed that adherence to medication leads to an improvement in overall HRQoL. The study aimed to evaluate the association between medication adherence and HRQoL. METHODS A questionnaire-based cross-sectional study design was undertaken with hypertension patients atte...

Natural time analysis enables the introduction of an order parameter for seismicity, which is just variance natural χ, κ1=⟨χ2⟩−⟨χ⟩2. During last years, there has been significant progress in seismicity. Milestones this are identification clearly distiguishable minima fluctuations κ1 seismicity both regional and global scale, emergence interrelation between correlations earthquake (EQ) magnitude...

The research is aimed at identifying the specifics of components emotional intelligence (EQ) in persons with different experiences substance abuse. study involved 157 respondents aged 35 to 45 years, whom 111 were dependent on psychoactive substances and 46 never used them. empirical was carried out using Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire (EmIn) by D.V. Lyusin, Balanced Empathy Scale (BEES) ...

The influence of short-range correlations on the p-wave single-particle spectral function in 16O is studied as a function of energy. This influence, which is represented by the admixture of high-momentum components, is found to be small in the p-shell quasihole wave functions. It is therefore unlikely that studies of quasihole momentum distributions using the (e, ep) reaction will reveal a sign...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the validity and reliability of the EuroQol-5D (EQ-5D), the 12-item Short-Form Health Survey (SF-12v2), and the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) in a stable coronary population. STUDY DESIGN Cross-sectional study EUROASPIRE III. SETTING Quality of life data (QoL) were available on 8745 patients hospitalized for coronary artery bypass graft (CABG), percut...

The Emotional Intelligence (EI) Scale devised by Schutte et al. (1998) is widely used in EI research. There have been criticisms of this scale, mainly related to its preponderance of forward-keyed items; differing results on its factor structure also exist. We investigated the effect on the scale’s psychometric properties of reversing some items and adding some new items. The short form of the ...