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Project Career: Perceived benefits of iPad apps among college students with Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI).

Work (Reading, Mass.)

Jacobs K, Leopold A, Hendricks DJ, Sampson E, Nardone A, Lopez KB, Rumrill P, Stauffer C, Elias E, Scherer M, Dembe J.
PMID: 28922175
Work. 2017 Sep 14;58(1):45-50. doi: 10.3233/WOR-172596.

BACKGROUND: Project Career is an interprofessional five-year development project designed to improve academic and employment success of undergraduate students with a traumatic brain injury (TBI) at two- and four-year colleges and universities. Students receive technology in the form of...

Assessing fears of preschool children with nighttime fears by a parent version of the fear survey schedule for preschool children.

The Israel journal of psychiatry and related sciences

Kushnir J, Gothelf D, Sadeh A.
PMID: 25841112
Isr J Psychiatry Relat Sci. 2015;52(1):61-5.

BACKGROUND: Although excessive fears are common in preschool children, validated assessment tools for this age are lacking. Our aim was to modify and provide preliminary evidence of the utility of a preschoolers' fear screening tool, a parent-reported Fear Survey...

About stagnation and the emperor's new clothes.

The journal of headache and pain

Crombez G.
PMID: 25971239
J Headache Pain. 2015 Dec;16:1053. doi: 10.1186/1129-2377-16-3. Epub 2015 Feb 19.

Innamorati and colleagues (Innamorati et al., J Headache Pain 16:2, 2015) validated the "stagnation scale" and proposed to use it to screen for psychopathology. I have some critical comments to consider about the theoretical and clinical value of the...

Health-related quality of life in chronic inflammatory neuropathies: a systematic review.

Journal of the neurological sciences

Rajabally YA, Cavanna AE.
PMID: 25467139
J Neurol Sci. 2015 Jan 15;348(1):18-23. doi: 10.1016/j.jns.2014.11.005. Epub 2014 Nov 13.

Chronic inflammatory neuropathies represent a heterogeneous group of disorders which affect patients' functional status and quality of life. We conducted a systematic review of the scientific literature on the effects of both disease and treatment interventions on health-related quality...

Self-efficacy instruments for patients with chronic diseases suffer from methodological limitations--a systematic review.

Health and quality of life outcomes

Frei A, Svarin A, Steurer-Stey C, Puhan MA.
PMID: 19781095
Health Qual Life Outcomes. 2009 Sep 26;7:86. doi: 10.1186/1477-7525-7-86.

BACKGROUND: Measurement of self-efficacy requires carefully developed and validated instruments. It is currently unclear whether available self-efficacy instruments for chronic diseases fulfill these requirements. Our aim was to systematically identify all existing self-efficacy scales for five major chronic diseases...

Improving measurement in health education and health behavior research using item response modeling: comparison with the classical test theory approach.

Health education research

Wilson M, Allen DD, Li JC.
PMID: 16880221
Health Educ Res. 2006 Dec;21:i19-32. doi: 10.1093/her/cyl053. Epub 2006 Jul 31.

This paper compares the approach and resultant outcomes of item response models (IRMs) and classical test theory (CTT). First, it reviews basic ideas of CTT, and compares them to the ideas about using IRMs introduced in an earlier paper....

Suffering assessment: a review of available instruments for use in palliative care.

Journal of palliative medicine

Krikorian A, Limonero JT, Corey MT.
PMID: 23350831
J Palliat Med. 2013 Feb;16(2):130-42. doi: 10.1089/jpm.2012.0370. Epub 2013 Jan 25.

BACKGROUND: The prevention and relief of suffering in palliative care are critical to the well-being and quality of life of patients and families facing life-threatening diseases. Many tools to assess different issues in health care are available, but few...

Correlation between adherence rates measured by MEMS and self-reported questionnaires: a meta-analysis.

Health and quality of life outcomes

Shi L, Liu J, Fonseca V, Walker P, Kalsekar A, Pawaskar M.
PMID: 20836888
Health Qual Life Outcomes. 2010 Sep 13;8:99. doi: 10.1186/1477-7525-8-99.

PURPOSE: It is vital to understand the associations between the medication event monitoring systems (MEMS) and self-reported questionnaires (SRQs) because both are often used to measure medication adherence and can produce different results. In addition, the economic implication of...

Validation of learning assessments: A primer.

Currents in pharmacy teaching & learning

Peeters MJ, Martin BA.
PMID: 29233326
Curr Pharm Teach Learn. 2017 Sep;9(5):925-933. doi: 10.1016/j.cptl.2017.06.001. Epub 2017 Jul 29.

The Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education's Standards 2016 has placed greater emphasis on validating educational assessments. In this paper, we describe validity, reliability, and validation principles, drawing attention to the conceptual change that highlights one validity with multiple evidence...

The Pain-Related Cognitive Processes Questionnaire: Development and Validation.

Pain medicine (Malden, Mass.)

Day MA, Ward LC, Thorn BE, Lang CP, Newton-John TRO, Ehde DM, Jensen MP.
PMID: 28340114
Pain Med. 2018 Feb 01;19(2):269-283. doi: 10.1093/pm/pnx010.

OBJECTIVE: Cognitive processes may be characterized as how individuals think, whereas cognitive content constitutes what individuals think. Both cognitive processes and cognitive content are theorized to play important roles in chronic pain adjustment, and treatments have been developed to...

Evaluation of the relationships among happiness, stress, anxiety, and depression in pharmacy students.

Currents in pharmacy teaching & learning

Silva RG, Figueiredo-Braga M.
PMID: 30236427
Curr Pharm Teach Learn. 2018 Jul;10(7):903-910. doi: 10.1016/j.cptl.2018.04.002. Epub 2018 Apr 27.

INTRODUCTION: To present the results of a survey on stress, anxiety, depression, subjective happiness, and academic satisfaction among pharmacy students.METHODS: A total of 410 pharmacy students, were included. Sociodemographic characteristics, stress, anxiety and depressive symptoms, and happiness were evaluated...

A systematic review of community participation measures for people with intellectual disabilities.

Journal of applied research in intellectual disabilities : JARID

Taylor-Roberts L, Strohmaier S, Jones F, Baker P.
PMID: 30693602
J Appl Res Intellect Disabil. 2019 May;32(3):706-718. doi: 10.1111/jar.12565. Epub 2019 Jan 28.

BACKGROUND: Community participation is considered a fundamental aspect of quality of life and one of the essential goals of services for people with intellectual disabilities, yet there is no agreed way of measuring community participation.METHOD: Two systematic searches were...

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