A recent stream of research related to individuals with eating disorders is concerned with the practice of body checking (i.e., weighing, measuring or otherwise assessing body parts through pinching, sucking in the abdomen, tapping it for flatness).
Since these individuals may be of high concern in health research, this text field yields additional valuable insight not otherwise assessed.
There are disease-specific validated health related quality of life (HRQOL) scales [ 1, 2] that measure dimensions of health, not otherwise assessed by conventional lung function tests in order to determine the severity of the disease for adult patients with cystic fibrosis (CF).
(In our discussion of the literature, a formal diagnosis of Major Depressive Disorder ascertained by a structured psychiatric interview will be indicated as MDD; depressive symptoms otherwise assessed that do not meet formal DSM-IV diagnostic criteria for MDD are denoted as "depression" or depressive symptoms).
Unless stated otherwise, to assess the existence of clinal variation of each measure, we tested for a correlation between the spatial distance to EBO and the mean values per population using Spearman rank correlation coefficient (rS).
The ultimate aim of measuring HRQOL is to provide a comprehensive assessment of patients' health status, to serve as a baseline from which to tailor interventions, pharmacological or otherwise, and assess their effectiveness, both in the clinical trial setting and in routine care.
This paper proposes an analytical method by which the occurrence of punching (or otherwise) is assessed by comparing the dynamic shear demand and capacity (supply).
They went to the Supreme Court to obtain a waiver from the need to sign the form to avoid penalties that would otherwise be assessed against them for refusing to provide coverage to their employees.
Cell death after 24-h incubation (unless indicated otherwise) was assessed by propidium iodide uptake using flow cytometry.
The study design allowed for an estimation of the negative predictive value as well as sensitivity and specificity, which is otherwise rarely assessed in validation studies due to lack of access to an independent reference data source.
