A principal wishes to ascertain an agent’s true profile in order to decide whether or not to accept his request. The principal designs a questionnaire regarding the agent’s profile and commits himself to accept the request if the agent’s answers satisfy certain conditions. The agent is boundedly rational in that he cannot fully understand the principal’s conditions and can only detect certain "...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Regular postanesthesia visits allow the detection of anesthesia related complications and increase patient satisfaction. Consequently, the performance of postanesthesia visits has been recommended after certain types of anesthesia. However, no data is available concerning the current practice of postanesthesia visits. Therefore, this study was designed to investigate qu...

Objectives. This study investigated whether women experience self-presentational concerns related to rehabilitation settings and explored preferences for characteristics of the social and physical treatment environment in relation to women's Social Physique Anxiety (SPA). Methods. Two cross-sectional studies were conducted. In Study 1, female undergraduate students (n = 134) completed four ques...

BACKGROUND There are no current instruments to facilitate population screening for rosacea. OBJECTIVE To develop and evaluate a screening instrument for rosacea applicable for population surveys. METHODS A rosacea-specific screening instrument (Rosascreen), consisting of a subject-completed questionnaire and screening algorithm, was developed based on current diagnostic criteria for rosacea...

The article deals with the issue of research methodology, illustrating the use of known research methods for new purposes. Questionnaires that originally do not have metric characteristics can be called »handy questionnaires«. In this article, the author is trying to consider the possibilities of their improved scientific usability, which can be primarily ensured by improving their metric chara...

introduction: musculoskeletal pain accompanied by psychological problem lead to reduce the efficiency of adolescents; so, this study aimed to determine the prevalence of musculoskeletal pain and its association with psychological factors among female adolescents. materials and methods: the target population of this cross sectional study was female students (3625 in total) from both private and ...

The aim of this investigation was to describe the quality of prescription and fabrication of single-unit crowns by general dental practitioners in Wales. One hundred pre-piloted questionnaires were distributed to commercial laboratories in Wales with large catchment areas, and 20 pre-piloted questionnaires were distributed to the production laboratory at the Cardiff Dental Hospital. Information...