Background: The WELCH questionnaire includes 4 items (A, B, C and D) and estimates the maximal walking time (MWT) on treadmill in patients with claudication. Its scoring was empirically defined. We aimed to test various methods for scoring to estimate ...
Evaluation of Competing Interests in Guidelines for Treating Substance Use Disorders: Methods and OutcomeAbstract.Background: Since 2018/2019, three S3 treatment guidelines (GL) for alcohol-, pharmaceutical-, and ...
Interprofessional collaboration from nurses and physicians – A triangulation of quantitative and qualitative dataAbstract. Background: Interprofessional collaboration between nurses and physicians is a recurrent challenge in daily clinical practice. To ...
Abstract. One of the central objectives of gerontology is to provide categories and criteria for practical application. In contrast, cultural anthropology describes and interprets processes observed in various practical contexts but does not aim to ...
The New Statistics in Psychology – The Status Quo and Future of Data AnalysisAbstract. What is the appropriate way of analyzing and reporting data from psychological studies? Although there is a long history of argumentation and ...
Methodological Approaches to Identify and Evaluate Psychosocial Risks in Business PracticeAbstract. In Germany, psychosocial risk assessments (PRA) are legally required. However, German legislation does not specify how PRA should be ...
How psychologically burden are adolescents with self-injurious behavior?During the last years many studies about prevalence rates in non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) have been published. From Switzerland, however, there were no reliable data about the ...
The Crisis of Confidence in Psychological Research: Selected Causes and Suggestions for Research in Sport and Exercise PsychologyAbstract. We present the discussion on the crisis of confidence in psychological science. We first briefly describe what has ...
Abstract. This study provides an analysis of 640 completed suicide cases in Singapore for the years 2001 and 2002, compared to previous years and in relation to demographic and socioeconomic factors, as well as to the characteristics of a subgroup of ...
Abstract:Background: Nursing professionals are an occupational group at increased risk of suicide, but little is known about self-harm in this population. Aims: To investigate the characteristics of nurses and midwives who present to hospital following ...
Measures of heart rate variability (HRV) are major indices of the sympathovagal balance in cardiovascular research. These measures are thought to reflect complex patterns of brain activation as well and HRV is now emerging as a descriptor thought to ...
Abstract. Over the past few decades, psychology and its cognate disciplines have undergone substantial scientific reform, ranging from advances in statistical methodology to significant changes in academic norms. ...
Abstract. Ego depletion is under scrutiny for low replicability, possibly reflecting the limited statistical power available in between-subject designs. In response, we created a within-subject, repeated-measures ego-depletion paradigm ...