Content of quality-of-life instruments is affected by item-generation methods

Ninety four patients living at home (mean age 65.5) were face-to-face interviewed to gather socioeconomic characteristics (sex, age, nationality, family structure,

The comparison of patients’ cognitive interviews and patients’ semi-structured interviews showed that patients interviewed by a cognitive technique provided more fine tuned items on

The aim of this study was to provide new evidence regarding the suitability of using self-reported QoL information in this impaired population by exploring the construct

Our results provide strong evidence supporting the rele- vance of self-reported quality of life assessments for pa- tients with cognitive disorders, particularly in patients with

A beginning might, however, be made in preparing teachers for an urban milieu by showing them how to use their environment as a geographical laboratory and by

On se préoccupe de certaines dimensions de la reconnaissance des acquis de formation (l'évalua- tion et 1'accréditation des activités para-scolaires, le placement

To later compare matrices at the individual level (as genetic distance matrices were computed at the individual level and not at the population level, see below), the

Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted in the French Initiatives COPD cohort and assessed cough and sputum production within the past 7 days using the cough and sputum