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Polypharmacy and health-related quality of life/psychological distress among patients with chronic disease
HRQOL /psychological distress. RESULTS: Overall, compared with patients without polypharmacy, patients with polypharmacy reported worse EQ-5D-5L index values, EuroQol visual analogue scale (EQ- VAS) ...
Validation of the Dutch-Flemish translated ABCD questionnaire to measure cardiovascular diseases knowledge and risk perception among adults
physical activity (F2), and perceived benefit and intention to change healthy dietary habit (F3). The two parametric logistic (2- PL) and rating scale models showed that the item infit and outfit values for ...
Benchmarking as a Public Health Strategy for Creating Healthy Food Environments: An Evaluation of the INFORMAS Initiative (2012-2020).
incorporate measurements related to environmental sustainability. For sustained impact, INFORMAS activities will need to be embedded within other existing monitoring initiatives. The most value will come from ...
Comparing health insurance data and health interview survey data for ascertaining chronic disease prevalence in Belgium.
both data sources were compared. Agreement was measured using sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value (PPV) and negative predictive value (NPV) assuming BHIS data as gold standard. Kappa ...
Measuring disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) due to low back pain in Malta
severity (with and without leg pain – mild, moderate, severe and most severe) and their corresponding disability weights followed values reported in the GBD study. Years lived with disability (YLD) for LBP ...
Measurement agreement of the self-administered questionnaire of the Belgian Health Interview Survey: Paper-and-pencil versus web-based mode.
evaluated by quantifying the missing, ‘don’t know’ and inconsistent values and data entry mistakes. Good to very good agreement was found for all categorical indicators with kappa coefficients superior to ...
Development of a generic and open source Incidence-Prevalence-Mortality model for the assessment of chronic disease epidemiology
optimization procedure called the Nelder-Mead method was employed in order to accept more inputs. This was done through the fminsearch() function of the neldermead package. Likewise, in order to make the values ...