Brown, Richard J C
Published in
Measurement : journal of the International Measurement Confederation
Metrology remains a uniquely important endeavour. A sign of its success and robustness as an infra-technology is that it usually goes unnoticed. This means that it is in danger of being under-valued and under-appreciated. The sure-footing that metrology provides to the quality infrastructure will be especially important as the world grapples with t...
Lukacz, Emily S. Constantine, Melissa L. Kane Low, Lisa Lowder, Jerry L. Markland, Alayne D. Mueller, Elizabeth R. Newman, Diane K. Rickey, Leslie M. Rockwood, Todd Rudser, Kyle
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Published in
BMC Women's Health
BackgroundBladder health is an understudied state and difficult to measure due to lack of valid and reliable instruments. While condition specific questionnaires assess presence, severity and degree of bother from lower urinary tract symptoms, the absence of symptoms is insufficient to assume bladder health. This study describes the methodology use...
Smith, Eric Milaney, Katrina Henderson, Rita I. Crowshoe, Lyndon
Published in
BMC Public Health
BackgroundCurrent literature has established that adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are associated with the onset of a variety of physical, mental, and behavioural illnesses. However, there are few studies that have thoroughly examined this association in low-income or marginalized groups.MethodsTo address this knowledge gap, this study used sel...
Cook, Ian Mohlabe, Matlawa Makgopa, Herbert Mabalane
Published in
Sleep Science and Practice
ObjectivesTo investigate the relationship between objectively-measured, free-living sleep quantity and quality, and cardiometabolic health, in a rural African setting in 139 adults (≥40 years, female: n = 99, male: n = 40). Wrist-mounted, tri-axial accelerometry data was collected over 9 days. Measures of sleep quantity and quality, and physical ac...
Thurber, Katherine A. Walker, Jennie Batterham, Philip J. Gee, Gilbert C. Chapman, Jan Priest, Naomi Cohen, Rubijayne Jones, Roxanne Richardson, Alice Calear, Alison L.
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Published in
International Journal for Equity in Health
BackgroundIt is well established that racism is a fundamental contributor to poor health and inequities. There is consistent evidence of high exposure to discrimination among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (Indigenous Australian) peoples, but impacts have not been fully quantified, in part due to limited measurement tools. We aim to validate...
Mosquera, Matthew J. Kaat, Aaron Ring, Melinda Agarwal, Gaurava Glickson, Sydney Victorson, David
Published in
Health and Quality of Life Outcomes
BackgroundMedical students face significant stressors related to the intense rigors of their training and education. Accurate measurement of their stress is important to quickly identify, characterize and ameliorate these challenges. Existing measures have limitations that modern measurement approaches, such as item response theory (IRT), are able ...
Cui, Hengtao Shen, Junru Huang, Yuxuan Shen, Xinrong So, Chu Wing Pun, Chun Shing Jason
Published in
Journal of quantitative spectroscopy & radiative transfer
The rapid development of cities has brought tremendous pressure to astronomical observation, energy security, and the ecosystem. Automatic monitoring of night sky brightness (NSB) can help us to understand its regional differences and time variations of NSB effectively and to investigate the human and natural factors which lead to these changes. In...
Hauer, Klaus Ullrich, Phoebe Heldmann, Patrick Hummel, Saskia Bauer, Jürgen M. Werner, Christian
Published in
BMC Geriatrics
BackgroundSelf-reported life-space assessment methods so far focus on community-dwelling persons, with a lack of validated assessment methods for institutionalized settings. This study evaluated construct validity, test-retest reliability, sensitivity to change, and feasibility of a new Life-Space Assessment for Institutionalized Settings (LSA-IS) ...
Chen, Zhaojuan Bai, Xuefei Jin, Guanghui Tao, Xin Huang, Guowei Zhao, Yali
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BMC Family Practice
BackgroundOPTION5 is a scale used to evaluate shared decision making (SDM) in health care from an observer’s perspective; however, to date, there is no simplified Chinese version of this scale.ObjectivesThis study aims to produce a simplified Chinese version of the OPTION5 scale and to test its psychometric properties.MethodsOne rater observed and ...
Jones, Petra Bus, Sicco A. Davies, Melanie J. Khunti, Kamlesh Webb, David
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Journal of Foot and Ankle Research
BackgroundAdequate footwear fit is critical in preventing diabetes-related foot ulcers. One important element is the toe gap, the difference between foot length and internal footwear length available to the foot. We summarised the literature on toe gaps in studies assessing footwear worn by people with diabetes, the methods used to measure both foo...
