Background. Patients may develop primary (congenital) or secondary (acquired) lymphedema, causing significant physical and psychosocial problems. To plan treatment for lymphedema and monitor a patient's progress, swelling, and problems in functioning associated with lymphedema development should be assessed …

OBJECTIVE: To develop a Dutch version of the Stanford Presenteeism Scale (SPS-6) and examine the reliability and discriminant, discriminative and structural validity of the Dutch SPS-6 (DSPS-6). METHODS: The original SPS-6 (English-language) was translated and adapted to the Dutch culture. Thirty participants …

BACKGROUND: Due to the rapidly increasing number of older people worldwide, the prevalence of frailty among older adults is expected to escalate in coming decades. It is crucial to recognize early onset symptoms to initiate specific preventive care. Therefore, early detection of frailty with appropriate …

Doelstelling: Binnen het vakgebied huidtherapie zijn tot op heden geen ervaringen bekend met het gebruik van meetinstrumenten met als specifiek doel het meten van kwaliteit van leven (KvL) van patiënten met een huidaandoening. In het kader van dit afstudeeronderzoek werd de Skindex-29 door middel van …

In very old and/or frail older people living in long-term care facilities, physical inactivity negatively affects activities of daily living. The main reason to assess older adults' perceived fitness is to establish the relation with their beliefs about their ability to perform physical activity adjusted …

Achtergrond: De concept jeugdversie van de PsyMot (PsyMot-J) is een diagnostisch instrument om psychomotorisch functioneren van jeugdigen in de leeftijd van twaalf tot achttien jaar in kaart te brengen en tot passende behandeldoelstellingen te komen. Het instrument is recent beschikbaar gekomen en is …

The present study examines the construct validity and reliability of the Prison Group Climate Instrument (PGCI) in a sample of 77 adolescents placed in a Dutch youth prison and 49 adult prisoners living in a Dutch psychiatric prison with a therapeutic living group structure. Confirmatory factor analysis …

In Deutschland besteht nach wie vor der Bedarf an Sprachscreeningsinstrumenten für Kinder im Alter von zwei Jahren. Es bestehen Elternfragebögen bezüglich der Sprachentwicklung, jedoch kein Screening, das bei einem Kind abgenommen wird. Aufgrund dessen wurde 2006 ein präventives Sprachentwicklungsscreening …

We show how to estimate a Cronbach's alpha reliability coefficient in Stata after running a principal component or factor analysis. Alpha evaluates to what extent items measure the same underlying content when the items are combined into a scale or used for latent variable. Stata allows for testing the reliability …

Background: The purpose of this study was to determine the feasibility and reliability of the modified Berg Balance Scale (mBBS) in persons with severe intellectual and visual disabilities (severe multiple disabilities, SMD) assigned Gross Motor Function Classification System (GMFCS) grades I and II. …