Apte, Salil Meyer, Frederic Gremeaux, Vincent Dadashi, Farzin Aminian, Kamiar
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Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology
Power-Force-Velocity profile obtained during a sprint test is crucial for designing personalized training and evaluating injury risks. Estimation of instantaneous velocity is requisite for developing these profiles and the predominant method for this estimation assumes it to have a first order exponential behavior. While this method remains appropr...
Gallego-Izquierdo, Tomas Arroba-Díaz, Enrique García-Ascoz, Gema Val-Cano, María del Alba Pecos-Martin, Daniel Cano-de-la-Cuerda, Roberto
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International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
The aim of this study was to assess the psychometric properties of the mobile application forward head posture in terms of validity, inter- and intra-rater reliability, minimum detectable change, sensitivity, and specificity to measure craniovertebral angle. In total, 44 subjects (mean age 23.30 ± 4.44 years) were evaluated in the standing position...
Jung, Tae Yang Kim, Myung Sub Hong, Hyun Pyo Kang, Kyung A Jun, Dae Won
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Journal of Clinical Medicine
Several hepatic steatosis formulae have been validated in various cohorts using ultrasonography. However, none of these studies has been validated in a community-based setting using the gold standard method. Thus, the aim of this study was to externally validate hepatic steatosis formulae in community-based settings using magnetic resonance imaging...
Simon, Anke
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Health informatics journal
In Germany and elsewhere, few hospital electronic patient record usability surveys are available. Moreover, there seems to be a complete lack of validated instruments in the respective literature. Hence, this study's purpose is to validate a scale for measuring the usability of hospital electronic patient record systems. The data used for the study...
Ravidà, Andrea Troiano, Giuseppe Qazi, Musa Saleh, Muhammad H A Saleh, Islam Borgnakke, Wenche S Wang, Hom-Lay
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Journal of clinical periodontology
We retrospectively explored effects of smoking on tooth loss due to periodontitis (TLP) in long-term compliant patients. Chart data were collected from 258 patients undergoing post-non-surgical periodontal treatment (mean 2.24 visits/year) for 10-47.5 (mean 24.2) years. Patients were categorized as: (1) never smokers, (2) former smokers, (3) curren...
Esfandiari, Maria Faramarzi, Mahbobeh Gholinia, Hemmat Omidvar, Shabnam Nasiri-Amiri, Fatemeh Abdollahi, Somayeh
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Iranian Journal of Nursing and Midwifery Research
Background: There are no proper tools for measuring pregnancy-specific stress in Iranian population. The aim of this study was psychometric evaluation of the Persian version of Revised Prenatal Distress Questionnaire (NuPDQ) for the first time in Iranian society. Materials and Methods: In a descriptive-analytic study, 269 pregnant women completed t...
Hall-Lord, Marie Louise Skoogh, Annika Ballangrud, Randi Nordin, Anna Bååth, Carina
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Journal of multidisciplinary healthcare
The delivery of effective and safe healthcare to patients is highly dependent on careful collaboration between healthcare professionals. Although teamwork is an important component for patient safety, effective teamwork is not always carried out in hospital wards, leading to negative consequences for the patients. Teamwork measurements can be used ...
Navarro-Prado, Silvia Sánchez-Ojeda, María Angustias Martín-Salvador, Adelina Luque-Vara, Trinidad Fernández-Gómez, Elisabet Caro-Morán, Elena
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International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
One of the most representative symptoms during childbirth is pain, which is one of the most prominent concerns of pregnant women. There are different instruments to assess pain, all of which require interrupting the woman, thus interfering with the intimacy of childbirth. This study seeks to develop and validate a rating scale of the expression of ...
Chen, Pin-Fang Chang, Elizabeth H. Unni, Elizabeth J. Hung, Man
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International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
Medication non-adherence is a concern in chronic disease management. Currently, there is no scale that characterizes sufficient non-adherent reasons for practical use in the Chinese population. This study developed and validated the Chinese version of the Medication Adherence Reasons Scale (ChMAR-Scale) and described non-adherence reasons in adult ...
Morri, Mattia Bekkering, Peter Willem Cotti, Marco Meneghini, Matilde Venturini, Enrico Longhi, Alessandra Mariani, Elisabetta Forni, Cristiana
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Cancers
The purpose of this study was to translate the English bone tumour DUX (Bt-DUX-Eng) questionnaire for lower extremity bone tumour patients, a disease-specific quality of life (QoL) instrument, into Italian and then examine the validity of the Italian version of Bt-DUX (Bt-DUX-It). The adaptation and translation process included forward translation,...
