The Internal Consistency and Validity of the Vaccination Attitudes Examination Scale: A Replication Study.

Background: Vaccinations are important preventative health behaviors. The recently developed Vaccination Attitudes Examination (VAX) Scale aims to measure the reasons behind refusal/hesitancy regarding vaccinations.

Purpose: The aim of this replication study is to conduct an independent test of the newly developed VAX Scale in the UK.

Rehabilitating patients after critical care.

Many people survive critical illness but experience problems such as post-traumatic stress disorder, after discharge from the critical care unit. This article aims to help intensive care and ward-based nurses, as well as the wider multidisciplinary team, understand the importance of promoting rehabilitation for patients after critical illness. It outlines how critical illness and admission to intensive care affects patients and families, and details rehabilitation strategies that have been adopted and proved beneficial.

Predictors of three-dimensional breast kinematics during bare-breasted running.

Purpose: This study aimed to analyze differences in breast kinematics between breast cup sizes during running and the ability of breast and body size measurements to explain these differences.

Methods: Forty-eight women (A to G cup; mean ± SD: age = 26.0 ± 6.

A protocol for monitoring soft tissue motion under compression garments during drop landings.

This study used a single-subject design to establish a valid and reliable protocol for monitoring soft tissue motion under compression garments during drop landings. One male participant performed six 40 cm drop landings onto a force platform, in three compression conditions (none, medium high). Five reflective markers placed on the thigh under the compression garment and five over the garment were filmed using two cameras (1000 Hz).

Kawasaki disease: diagnosis, management and cardiac sequelae.

Kawasaki disease (KD) is an acute self-limiting systemic vasculitis of unknown etiology and the most common cause of acquired coronary disease in children aged 6 months to 5 years. The inflammatory process results in coronary arteritis, aneurysmal lesions, arterial thrombotic occlusion or even sudden death. The diagnostic tests are unknown but treatment with immunoglobulin and aspirin is effective at reducing cardiac complications from 25 to 4.

Elbow Flexor Strength, Muscle Size, and Moment Arms in Prepubertal Boys and Girls.

The aim of this study was to examine elbow flexion torque, muscle cross-sectional area (CSA), and leverage in boys and girls. Thirty-eight prepubertal children (9.6 ± 0.

Behaviour sequelae following acute Kawasaki disease.

Background: Kawasaki disease is a systemic vasculitis and may affect cerebral function acutely. The aim of the present study was to measure a number of behaviour and social parameters within a cohort of Kawasaki disease patients.

Methods: Parents of children with past diagnosis of Kawasaki disease were recruited to complete several behaviour screening questionnaires.

Elbow flexion and extension strength relative to body or muscle size in children.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine gender- and age-related differences in elbow flexion and extension strength in children, when linear size measurements and actual measurements of muscle size were used as explanatory variables in a multilevel model.

Methods: Thirty-seven children participated in a 3-yr longitudinal study (18 boys and 19 girls). The average age +/- SD at the first test occasion was 13.

The general practice research database: role in pharmacovigilance.

The General Practice Research Database (GPRD) is the world's largest computerised database of anonymised longitudinal clinical records from primary care. The database already has an international reputation in the field of drug safety signal evaluation where the results of GPRD-based pharmacoepidemiological studies have been used to inform regulatory pharmacovigilance decision making. The characteristics and richness of the data are such that the GPRD is likely to prove a key data resource for the proactive pharmacovigilance anticipated in risk management and pharmacovigilance plans.