Compared with the normative group, patients with SHR used confrontational and optimistic coping more and emotive coping less.
However, when compared to normative values patients as well as controls had very low percentile rank of aerobic capacity.
Using published normative data, patients in this category (n = 3) exhibited less than the median of normal controls by 2 standard deviation (SD) in 2 or more of areas of cognitive function without significant clinical impairment [ 13].
Mean baseline PCS scores were lower than age and gender-matched norms in patients with RA and PsA, but near normative values in patients with psoriasis; MCS scores at baseline were near normal in PsA and psoriasis but low in RA.
The degree to which the general population normative scores for patients from these countries align with US general population norms has not been established, and the potential deviations in norms between countries could shift the values for what would be considered average scores.
Compared to normative data, these patients had reduced quality of life, particularly on physical functioning.
The dependent variable used for the validation was the dentist's normative assessment of patients' priority of access to treatment and was dichotomised by months to be waited before treatment into ≤6 months (PriorityTx) or 7+ months (no-PriorityTx).
Second, self-management decreases the burdens placed on health services; third, self-management is based on the normative conviction that "patients deserve to be partners in their own care" (Holman and Lorig 2000, 526; Lorig et al. 2001).
Body mass index percentiles were calculated according to latest Italian normative values, and patients between the 85th and 97th percentiles or over the 97th percentile were classified as overweight or obese, respectively (Cacciari et al., 2006).
