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Validity and accuracy of the Adult Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) Self-Report Scale (ASRS) and the Wender Utah Rating Scale (WURS) symptom checklists in discriminating between adults with and without ADHD
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Objective To validate the Adult ADHD Self‐Report Scale (ASRS) and the Wender Utah Rating Scale (WURS) in a well‐characterized sample of adult attention‐deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) patients and population ... -
Validity and reliability of OIDP and OHIP-14: a survey of Chinese high school students
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014-12-19)Background: To determine the impact of oral diseases on everyday life, measures of oral quality of life are needed. In complementing traditional disease-based measures, they assess the need for oral care to evaluate oral ... -
Validity and reliability of the Amharic version of the Schwartz Center Compassionate Care Scale
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Background Compassionate care is the sensitivity shown by health care providers to understand another person’s suffering and a willingness to help and to promote the well being of that person. Although monitoring of ... -
Validity and reliability of the Oral Impacts on Daily Performance (OIDP) frequency scale: a cross-sectional study of adolescents in Uganda
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2003-08-28)Background: Assessing oral health related quality of life impact of mouth in adolescents is a relatively ignored area in dental research. This study aimed to examine reliability and validity of an abbreviated version of ... -
Validity and responsiveness of EQ-5D-5L and SF-6D in patients with health complaints attributed to their amalgam filings: a prospective cohort study of patients undergoing amalgam removal
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Background Evidence of health utility changes in patients who suffer from longstanding health complaints attributed to dental amalgam fillings are limited. The change in health utility outcomes enables calculating ... -
Validity and responsiveness of GHC-index in patients with amalgam-attributed health complaints
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Objective: Many patients have medically unexplained physical symptoms (MUPS); some of them attribute their health complaints to dental amalgam fillings. The aim of this study was to assess the validity and responsiveness ... -
Validity of self-reported myocardial infarction and stroke in regions with Sami and Norwegian populations: The SAMINOR 1 Survey and the CVDNOR project
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016)Objective: Updated knowledge on the validity of selfreported myocardial infarction (SMI) and self-reported stroke (SRS) is needed in Norway. Our objective was to compare questionnaire data and hospital discharge data from ... -
The validity of the Gait Variability Index for individuals with mild to moderate Parkinson's disease
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017-05)Increased step-to-step variability is a feature of gait in individuals with Parkinson’s disease (PD) and is associated with increased disease severity and reductions in balance and mobility. The Gait Variability Index (GVI) ... -
Validity of the total SOFA score in patients ≥ 80 years old acutely admitted to intensive care units: a post-hoc analysis of the VIP2 prospective, international cohort study
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Background Little is known about the performance of the Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA) score in older critically ill adults. We aimed to evaluate the prognostic impact of physiological disturbances in the ... -
The valine-3-HIB pathway in obesity, insulin resistance and fatty liver
(Doctoral thesis, 2022-06-10)The prevalence of obesity has increased greatly during the last decades, along with obesity-associated conditions and diseases including insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes (T2D), non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). ... -
The value of cerebrospinal fluid α‐synuclein and the tau/α‐synuclein ratio for diagnosis of neurodegenerative disorders with Lewy pathology
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-07-10)Background and purpose: Parkinson's disease (PD), dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) and Alzheimer's disease (AD) are three of the most common neurodegenerative disorders. Up to 20% of these patients have the wrong diagnosis, ... -
The value of histological examination in the diagnosis of tuberculous lymphadenitis in the era of rapid molecular diagnosis
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Extrapulmonary tuberculosis often poses a diagnostic challenge. This study aimed to assess the value of histological examination in diagnosing tuberculous lymphadenitis (LNTB) when performed simultaneously with rapid ... -
The value of spot urinary creatinine as a marker of muscle wasting in patients with new-onset or worsening heart failure
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Background Muscle wasting and unintentional weight loss (cachexia) have been associated with worse outcomes in heart failure (HF), but timely identification of these adverse phenomena is difficult. Spot urinary creatinine ... -
The value of the Voice Handicap Index-questionnaire and acoustic analyses to the laryngological examination.
(Doctoral thesis, 2020-09-23)Voice-related diseases may influence on individual’s daily life. Quantifying the extent of laryngeal pathology, voice symptoms and evaluating treatment responses for patients are challenging. The European Laryngological ... -
Vanilla bisquits and lobola bridewealth: parallel discourses on early pregnancy and schooling in rural Zambia
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Background Adolescent pregnancy is a complex socio-economic phenomenon ranking high on the global health policy agenda. Early childbearing is associated with early marriage and school drop-out, and is defined as a problem ... -
Vanishing twin syndrome among ART singletons and pregnancy outcomes
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017-11)STUDY QUESTION: Among babies born by ART, do singleton survivors of a vanishing twin have lower birth weight than other singletons? SUMMARY ANSWER: Vanishing twin syndrome (VTS) was associated with lower birth weight among ... -
Variability and similarity of inter-beat intervals of the heart as markers of perceived stress and behavioral regulation
(Doctoral thesis, 2022-08-16)The current dissertation investigated inter-beat interval (IBI) indices of variability and similarity, reflecting autonomic nervous system (ANS) modulation on heart rate. IBI indices of cardiac vagal activity (CVA) are ... -
Variability in functional outcome and treatment practices by treatment center after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: analysis of International Cardiac Arrest Registry
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)Purpose Functional outcomes vary between centers after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) and are partially explained by pre-existing health status and arrest characteristics, while the effects of in-hospital treatments ... -
Variability of activity patterns across mood disorders and time of day
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017-12-19)Background: Few actigraphy studies in mood disorders have simultaneously included unipolar (UP) and bipolar (BD) depression or BD mixed states as a separate subgroup from mania. This study compared objectively measured ... -
Variability of Primary Sjögren’s Syndrome Is Driven by Interferon-α and Interferon-α Blood Levels Are Associated With the Class II HLA–DQ Locus
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Objective Primary Sjögren's syndrome (SS) is the second most frequent systemic autoimmune disease, affecting 0.1% of the general population. To characterize the molecular and clinical variabilities among patients with ...