Sentence examples for perception and reporting from inspiring English sources

The VAS scale has been used in creative ways to explore the phenomenon of pain perception and reporting in addition to exploring other health related phenomena [ 32, 34, 35].

Pain analysis is problematic due to its subjective nature and broad range of factors modulating it, such as ethnicity as evidenced by known differences in both pain perception and reporting between African Americans and Caucasians [ 5, 9].

A potential explanation of association of baseline depression with 2-year outcomes may be higher pain perception and reporting by those with depression than those without depression.

Third, all variables used in this analysis were gathered using entirely respondents' self-reports and self-perceptions, and biases in perception and reporting cannot be ruled out.

The analysis of factors associated with health-seeking behaviours in this study did not allow for a direct assessment of socio-economic patterns in illness perception and reporting which could underlie this important bias.

12 Lack of standardization of symptoms, diagnosis, drug, dosage and treatment duration may have also acted as confounding factors and may have affected the perception and reporting of ADRs.

We took the opportunity to measure mothers' awareness, perception, and reported use of WaterGuard.

Thus the lack of association between risk perception and reported behavioural change may be due to participants re-appraising their risk after undergoing colonoscopy, and this risk estimate not being currently relevant to their decision-making.

For instance, Windridge and Berryman (1999), in a study of 107 British women's experiences of giving birth at AMA, explored risk perception and reported that women of AMA may perceive a higher risk for their babies during labor because of their older age [ 15].

The relationship between SES, health perceptions and reporting behaviors may likewise bias our findings, although the direction and magnitude of these effects remain uncertain [ 49, 50]; so far, two validation studies conducted by the CDC did not find significant differences in the sensitivity or specificity of the BRFSS self-reported arthritis according to education [ 51, 52].

This may be explained by sex differences in pain perception, evaluation, and reporting, with females reporting pain more frequently than males, which may make these symptoms more unspecific in females [ 37- 39].