... with the DASH questionnaire The aim of the present study was to develop and evaluate the reliability, validityandresponsivenessof the Dutch language version of the OES Dutch translation to make ... administration of the OES Except for pain, the standard error of measurement and the MDC measurements of the three domains were comparable to those in the Dawson et al study [8] The standard error of measurements ... study and drafted and revised the manuscript WET performed the statistical analysis of the data JDH, DDH and HG participated in patient inclusion and assessment All of the authors have read and...
... RLS and TREAT RLS data, and results confirmed the reliability, validityandresponsivenessof the IRLS [19] The IRLS consists of 10 questions concerning the patient's symptoms and the impact of ... concurrent validity, known groups validity, clinical validityandresponsiveness Assessment of concurrent validity consists of examining the association between the measure being validated, and other ... changes) The aim of the present study, therefore, was to assess the reliability, validityandresponsivenessof the RLSQoL in a larger sample size, over a longer period of time (12 weeks) and with treatment...
... [16] ResponsivenessResponsivenessof the Thai HAQ and other measures of RA disease activity was calculated from the baseline values and the values at month To assess the responsivenessof the ... assessment of disease activity, and pain level Weak correlations were found between the walking domain and number of swollen joints and between the grip domain and number of tender joints, number of ... assessment of pain, patient global assessment of disease activity, physician global assessment of disease activity, and ESR Pain score and patient and physician global assessments of disease...
... of the time Some of the time All of the time Knee pain present at night: None of the time Some of the time All of the time Knee pain worse on movement: None of the time Some of the time All of ... selfreported measures of health and quality of life [2] Only three of the five instruments that incorporate the views of patients have been adequately evaluated for reliabilityandvalidityOf these, the ... basis of item construction Therefore the KQoL-26 has high content validity as a measure of knee-related quality of life The instrument was then evaluated for reliability, construct validityand responsiveness...
... discriminant validity Internal consistency reliability Test-retest reliability Floor and ceiling effects Scale-scale correlations Concurrent validity Known-group validity Clinical validityResponsiveness ... discriminant validity, reliability, and floor and ceiling effects for the EAPIQ (total sample) Item-level EAPIQ scale No of Items Scale-level Reliability Convergent validitya Scale-level Discriminant validityb ... Results of tests of item convergent validity, item discriminant validity, reliability, and floor and ceiling effects are presented in Table All items met the criterion for item convergent validity...
... estimated a standard error of measurement (SEM) which accounts for reliabilityof the DQOL and standard deviation of patients under the investigation SEM was estimated by a standard deviation of the ... domains of the DQOL (0.90, 0.89, and 0.83 for impact, satisfaction, and worry domains, respectively) Convergent/discriminant validity Table shows convergent and discriminant validityof the DQOL ... 1997, 35(5):440-453 The Diabetes Control and Complications Trial: Reliabilityandvalidityof a diabetes quality -of- life measure for the diabetes control and complications trial (DCCT) The DCCT...
... variability andgaitspeed over a wider range of speeds and perhaps also in young and older adults SFT, NG, and JMH designed the study SFT and TH participated in data collection CP, JMH and LG performed ... as measured at four different gait speeds on the treadmill There were small but significant associations between gaitspeedand stride length and between gaitspeedand stride time variability, ... Table 3: Effects ofgaitspeed on spatio-temporal characteristics ofgait in PD and controls on a motorized treadmill 80% of CWS (P value*) a) PD Subjects (n = 36) Average gaitspeed (m/sec) Average...
... the reliabilityandvalidityof both the figure of eight method and volumeter method of measuring hand size when used by an experienced lymphoedema practitioner and to validate the results ofreliability ... in hand size over time and to assess the intra-tester reliabilityandvalidityof the circumferential measurement of measuring hand size by comparing it with the “gold standard” approach of water ... Oral presentation - Reliabilityandvalidityof the figure -of- eight method of measuring hand size in patients with breast cancer related lymphoedema (BCRL) Chartered Society of Physiotherapy Congress...
... Equivalence of single and dual task gaitspeed in the prediction of falls M This systematic review and meta-analysis of 31 studies revealed that slower gait speeds under both single and dual task ... dual task walking tests an Means and standard deviations ofgaitspeed for non-fallers and fallers in the single and dual task tests were retrieved from each of the selected full-text articles ... Page of 52 value of single and dual task walking speed measures for predicting falls in participant subgroups (i.e those with and without cognitive impairment, slower and faster walkers) and whether...
... circuit and from 1999 to 2001 the line is operated with single circuit because one of the circuits is energized by 33 KV Reliabilityof Dokan and Derbandikhan H/P are considered to be 0.98 and 0.95 ... and forced outages of the line are take into account Case to case reliabilityof regional power system evaluated by evaluating minimal paths and cuts of the system from the network modeling and ... period of years [10] With the relevant data, the reliability indices were found and the reliabilityof each 132 kV transmission line is calculated for two cases: 1-Only forced outages of the...
... and frequency, velocity, single and double support times, and step width and length, as well as parameters such as range -of- motion of a particular joint, peak values, and time of occurrence of ... of variation and standard deviation are routinely employed in the summary ofgait variables Given a sample of N observations of a gait variable X, i.e., {x1, , xN}, the coefficient of variation ... spread of a sample ofgait curves and to avoid fallacious under or overestimation The intuitive and perhaps most popular way of estimating curve variability is the calculation of the standard...
... robustness of these findings provides additional validation of the responsivenessand stability properties of the TCT Measure validity Construct validity Table presents findings from the construct validity ... predictive validity, most findings from this study support the reliability, validity, andresponsivenessof the TCT measures Page 11 of 13 we examined Furthermore, the low burden of this instrument, ... and drafting of the paper LHL participated in conceptualization and design of the study and provided critical review of earlier drafts JAM conceived of the study, participated in its design and...
... underreporting of somatic/panic, and generalized anxiety symptoms on the one hand, and that children refuse (and/ or deny) symptoms of school and social phobia on the other hand, stress the importance of ... "very true or often true = 2" The reliabilityandvalidityof these widely used instruments have been examined in a number of studies [27] Analysis Symptom scores of the SCARED and the CBCL/YSR ... reported 47% of the children and adolescents scored in the clinical range on the SCARED (cut-off ≥ 25, [18]) If the same cut-off was applied for the parent reports, 22% of the mothers and 16% of the...
... Accelerating Test, Validation and Debug of High Speed Serial Interfaces Yongquan Fan · Zeljko Zilic Accelerating Test, Validation and Debug of High Speed Serial Interfaces 123 Dr Yongquan ... consists of three processes: validation of the first set of fabricated devices, characterization of the devices under all settings across Process, Voltage and Temperature (PVT) corners, and production ... specifications in term of Deterministic Jitter (DJ) and Random Jitter (RJ), so the procedures for testing, characterization and validation as well need to be cognizant of such types of jitter 8 Introduction...
... performs the function ofspeed estimation andspeed loop adaptive PI controller, the function of current controller and coordinate transformation (CCCT) and SVPWM, and the function of SMO-based rotor ... of CCCT and SVPWM in work-2 of ModelSim are not shown here The FPGA (Altera) resource usages of work-1 to work-3 of ModelSim in Fig.4 are 8,942 LEs (Logic Elements) and 0RAM bits; 2,085 LEs and ... kinds of PMSM running speed at 500rpm, 1000rpm and 1500 rpm are tested and its simulation results of the real and estimated rotor flux position are presented in Fig.7 It shows that the response of...
... the reliability modeling and optimization of some networked systems The reliabilityof a system is usually dependent on the structure of the system and the resources spent on the maintenance and ... Chapter 1: Introduction As a kind of generalized k-out -of- n systems, the reliabilityof the consecutive-k-out-ofn: F system has aroused a lot of attention, see Pekoz and Ross (1995) and Cluzeau et al (2008) ... systems and study the related optimization problems The reliabilityof a system is usually dependent on the structure of the system and the resources spent on the maintenance and protection of the...
... discriminative validity Figure Flow diagram of the participants in the validityandreliability analyses Flow diagram of the participants in the validityandreliability analyses Page of (page number ... a value of 0.70 has been considered as acceptable reliability [19] Ceiling and floor effects Reliabilityandvalidityof an instrument may be influenced by the presence of high ceiling and/ or ... BL, HIA, AJ and IA conceived ofand designed the study BL, AJ and IA analyzed and interpreted the data AJ, BL and IA performed the statistical analysis BL and AJ drafted the paper and IA critically...
... 7, 8, 11, 13 and 15; and item correlated with SCL items 1, 2, 6, and 10 Only item did not correlate with any of Page of 10 (page number not for citation purposes) Health and Quality of Life Outcomes ... statistical analyses and gave scientific input in the analysis of the results and in the writing of the manuscript AB: gave scientific input in the design of the study and in the writing of the manuscript ... the new instrument and the SCL Results In total, 137 patients were identified and eligible, 11 of whom were not interested in participating (on the grounds of a lack of time and not wishing to...
... pain" syndromes) of at least moderate intensity (i.e ≥ out of 10) were included, and the test-retest reliability was not inves- The reliabilityandvalidityof the Spanish version of the DN4 questionnaire ... assessment of its psychometric properties (i.e reliabilityand validity) have been performed following the traditional recommendations for adaptation andvalidityof health questionnaires and diagnostic ... coefficient between the scores of clinicians completing test and retest and using Cohen's kappa coefficient of agreement for the total retest sample and in subgroups by type of pain Validity A ROC (receiver...
... and 1.1%; Poland, 0.7% and 0.7%; Spain, 0.6% and 0.6% In cases where more than 6% of the data were missing (Germany, Hungary and Italy), characteristics (age, gender, duration and frequency of ... 11 implies definite cases of anxiety or depression, a cut-off of 8–10 a probable case, and < not a case The validityandreliabilityof the HAD have been reported in several studies [45,46] The ... scale where represents absence of troublesome symptoms and represents very troublesome symptoms The reliabilityandvalidityof the GSRS are well-documented [37], and norm values for a general...