In this article, we define questionable measurement practices (QMPs) as decisions researchers make that raise doubts about the validity of the...
Systematic Review of Primary Outcome Measurements for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (CFS/ME) in Randomized Controlled Trials...
Researchers at McMaster and Brock universities in Canada have developed a hand-held device that can provide rapid measurements of cancer...
WHODAS 2.0 is: A generic assessment instrument for health and disability A tool to produce standardized disability levels and profiles Applicable...
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Saw this used recently in a study unrelated to ME and thought a thread about the scale might be useful. Objective: To construct an observer's...
Abstract Background: Envy is depicted as motivating destructive desires and actions intended to spoil or destroy that which is envied. Aim: To...
Definitely not a recommendation. PURPOSE To develop a scale for a group of symptoms based on the unemployment syndrome. METHODS The development...
I’m after some information about scales which measure severity of disease in ME/CFS, in terms of functional impairment (mild vs severe). There...
Date: September 17, 2019 Source: Florida Atlantic University Summary: Researchers have developed a novel way to measure how mechanical fatigue...
Description The MFIS is a modified form of the Fatigue Impact Scale (Fisk et al, 1994b) based on items derived from interviews with MS patients...
Psychosocial research: still not acknowledging failings (unless you look beyond the abstract) - (original title of thread) August 22, 2019...
Full title: Symptom frequency and development of a generic functional disorder symptom scale suitable for use in studies of patients with...
This post and the following ones have been moved from this thread. I was just looking at this new paper from the author: Measurements of...
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Abstract OBJECTIVES: To develop a scale for the severity of mononucleosis. STUDY DESIGN: One to 5 percent of college students develop infectious...
Mostly an article by sports scientists exhorting us all – well, maybe not us specifically – to exercise more. However, the article mentions an...
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At the other place I started a thread (Feeling very heavy - symptom that rarely gets mentioned) with this post: " I have come across anecdotal...
RESULTS: 50 patients and 48 controls were included in cohort I, and 90 patients and 29 controls in cohort II. Within the cohorts there were no...
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