Resnick, Barbara Van Haitsma, Kimberly Kolanowski, Ann Galik, Elizabeth Boltz, Marie Ellis, Jeanette Behrens, Liza Eshraghi, Karen
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Journal of the American Medical Directors Association
The purpose of this study was to expand on prior work testing invariance on several depression measures in community-based older adults and explore the psychometric properties and evidence of invariance between racial groups based on the Cornell Scale for Depression in Dementia. This was a descriptive measurement study. This was a secondary data an...
Harding, Richard Jones, Christopher Iain Bremner, Stephen Bristowe, Katherine West, Brian Siegert, Richard J O'Brien, Kelly K Whetham, Jennifer
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HIV medicine
Despite successful treatment, people living with HIV experience persisting and burdensome multidimensional problems. We aimed to assess the validity, reliability and responsiveness of Positive Outcomes, a patient-reported outcome measure for use in clinical practice. In all, 1392 outpatients in five European countries self-completed Positive Outcom...
Hoben, Matthias Banerjee, Sube Beeber, Anna S Chamberlain, Stephanie A Hughes, Laura O'Rourke, Hannah M Stajduhar, Kelli Shrestha, Shovana Devkota, Rashmi Lam, Jenny
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Journal of the American Medical Directors Association
Maximizing quality of life (QoL) is the ultimate goal of long-term dementia care. However, routine QoL measurement is rare in nursing home (NH) and assisted living (AL) facilities. Routine QoL measurement might lead to improvements in resident QoL. Our objective was to assess the feasibility of using DEMQOL-CH, completed by long-term care staff in ...
Zhu, Yuhong Wu, Shiyou Marsiglia, Flavio F Wu, Qi Chen, Qiqi
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Health & social care in the community
Cyberbullying is a global and growing phenomenon, which affects the wellbeing of millions of adolescents around the world including Chinese adolescents. However, there is a lack of valid and reliable measures of cyberbullying behaviours in Chinese. To address this research gap, this study aims to adapt and validate a well-known, reliable and valida...
Van Leeuwen, Neil
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Frontiers in Psychology
Slater, Mel Banakou, Domna Beacco, Alejandro Gallego, Jaime Macia-Varela, Francisco Oliva, Ramon
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Frontiers in Virtual Reality
We review the concept of presence in virtual reality, normally thought of as the sense of “being there” in the virtual world. We argued in a 2009 paper that presence consists of two orthogonal illusions that we refer to as Place Illusion (PI, the illusion of being in the place depicted by the VR) and Plausibility (Psi, the illusion that the virtual...
Ji, Suhe Qin, Xiaoqing LI, Ke
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Frontiers in Psychology
A considerable amount of research on foreign language (FL) listening anxiety has emerged since 1986, yet a lack of sufficient attention on the conceptual definitions of FL listening anxiety and inappropriate employment of instruments to measure FL listening anxiety cause confusion in the research to a certain extent. This study presents a systemati...
Khumalo, Itumeleng P. Appiah, Richard Wilson Fadiji, Angelina
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Frontiers in Psychology
The dual-continua model of mental health provides a contemporary framework for conceptualising and operationalising mental health. According to this model, mental health is distinct from but related to mental illness, and not the opposite or merely the absence of psychopathology symptoms. To examine the validity of the dual-continua model, previous...
Wang, Yan Gao, Shan Wang, Fuzhang
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Frontiers in Physics
The increase in global natural disasters, emergencies, and terrorist attacks brings great challenges to the flexible operation of power grids. The research on the flexibility of power grids becomes more and more important. At the same time, the rapid development of renewable energy and smart grids also provides new opportunities for research of fle...
Palatini, Paolo Fania, Claudio Ermolao, Andrea Battista, Francesca Saladini, Francesca
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American journal of hypertension
Published evidence has shown that troncoconical cuffs improve blood pressure measurement accuracy in subjects with obesity. However, the exact shape of these cuffs according to arm size is unknown. The aim of the present study was to investigate the anthropometric characteristics of the arm in a large population in order to identify the appropriate...
