International journal of behavioral medicine
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Daily spiritual experience (DSE) refers to one's interaction with the transcendent in day-to-day life. Underwood's Daily Spiritual Experience Scale mic(DSES) was developed to measure this experiential component of religiousness and spirituality. Addressing ordinary daily experiences rather than particular beliefs, DSES has transcultural applicability potential. ⋯ The psychometric properties of DSES were similar to the English version in factor structure, internal consistency, and convergence/divergence construct validity.
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At the beginning of the 1990s, the World Health Organization (WHO) developed a project in order to create a cross-cultural instrument of quality of life assessment: the World Health Organization Quality of Life (WHOQOL). ⋯ The WHOQOL showed good psychometric characteristics, suggesting that the Portuguese version of WHOQOL is valid and reliable in the assessment of quality of life in Portugal.
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Understanding how patients with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) recall their fatigue is important because fatigue is a core clinical dimension of this poorly understood illness. ⋯ Individuals with CFS recalled consistently higher levels of fatigue in comparison to real-time momentary ratings, yet the level of agreement between the two measures was moderate to high. These findings may have implications for the conduct of office examinations for CFS.
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Diabetes is a common disease in pediatric populations. Family functioning has been related to child adaptation to diabetes. ⋯ The results highlight the importance of studying family variables in adolescents' diabetes care within the wider cultural factors affecting the patient.
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Comparative Study
Assessing pain and pain-related fear in acute low back pain: what is the smallest detectable change?
The Tampa Scale for Kinesiophobia (TSK) and the Fear-Avoidance Beliefs Questionnaire (FABQ) are frequently used questionnaires for pain-related fear, and the visual analogue scale (VAS) is for pain. ⋯ The SDCs of the (subscales of) questionnaires range from 18% to 40%. Floor and/or ceiling effects were detected for most scales, except the TSK total and the TSK activity avoidance subscale. These results should be considered when using these questionnaires as measures of therapeutic change in acute LBP.