That is, although each psychological distress variable was associated with pain (P < .001), only depression (b1 = 0.27, P = .03) and stress (b3 = .23, P = .02) were significantly associated with disability and fulfilled recommended criteria for establishing a mediating variable.
At least 30 40 items, fulfilling recommended criteria, are suggested for inclusion in a frailty index.
For both of them we used British produced guidelines [ 20, 21] because there were not Cochrane reviews on them and because the guidelines fulfilled recommended criteria for methodological quality of published guidelines [ 11].
Many vets won't recommend a home-cooked diet for pets simply because they know that busy owners may stray from fulfilling recommended recipes aimed at providing optimal nutrition due to time constraints.
30 to 45 minutes four times per week will fulfill the recommended moderate-intensity fitness recommendation.
For inclusion in the OTS group, athletes must show persistent fatigue, an increased sense of effort in trainings that required less effort prior to the OTS, worsening in sleep quality (this criteria was not obligatory), and fulfill the recommended protocol for diagnosis of OTS proposed by the most recent guidelines on OTS [1].
Only about 30% of Japanese adults fulfill the recommended physical activity level (PAL) [ 3], therefore, it is important to understand whether daily PA including going to work, washing clothes and cleaning floors, defined as non-exercise activity thermogenesis (NEAT) [ 4] can improve CVD risk factors, or not [ 5, 6].
Test-retest correlations for 8/10 scales exceeded 0.7; two scales had correlations below the recommended criteria, but marginally (Table 5), thus mostly fulfilling the recommended minimum criteria and indicating good scale stability.
At the MMUH only those donors who fulfilled the recommended International Society of Heart Lung Transplantation criteria for donation were selected.
"In order to maintain public confidence that the public sector equality duty is being fulfilled, we recommend that the Treasury be independently evaluated on how robustly it has complied with that duty in the 2015 spending review process, and on how it can improve its equalities analysis".
