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Physical Activity After a Hip Fracture: Effect of a Multicomponent Home-Based Rehabilitation Program—A Secondary Analysis of a Randomized Controlled …

2017

Objectives To investigate the effect of a yearlong multicomponent rehabilitation program on the level of physical activity (PA) and the maintenance of the level of PA over 1-year follow-up among older people recovering from a recent hip fracture. Design Secondary analysis of a randomized, controlled, parallel-group trial. Setting Home-based rehabilitation; measurements in university laboratory. Participants Community-dwelling people (N=81) aged ≥60 years recovering from a hip fracture. Participants were randomly assigned to an intervention (n=40) or a control (n=41) group, on average, 42±23 days after discharge from the hospital. Intervention A yearlong intervention included evaluation and …

Counselling for physical activity, life-space mobility and falls prevention in old age (COSMOS): protocol of a randomised controlled trial.

2019

IntroductionThe most promising way to promote active life years in old age is to promote regular participation in physical activity (PA). Maintaining lower extremity muscle function with good balance has been associated with fewer falls and the need of help from others. This article describes the design and intervention of a randomised controlled trial (RCT) investigating the effectiveness of a health and PA counselling programme on life-space mobility and falls rates in community-dwelling older adults at the Health Kiosk and/or Service Centre.Methods and analysisCommunity-dwelling men and women (n=450) aged 65 years and over with early phase mobility limitation will be recruited to a 24-mo…

Psychometric properties of the French translation of the reduced KOOS and HOOS (KOOS-PS and HOOS-PS).

2009

Udgivelsesdato: 2009-Dec OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the psychometric properties of the French KOOS physical function (KOOS-PS) and HOOS physical function (HOOS-PS), specifically its feasibility, reliability, construct validity, and responsiveness. METHODS: Consecutive outpatients consulting for primary knee or hip osteoarthritis (OA) in a rheumatology department were included. During the initial assessment, patients were asked to complete the Knee injury and Osteoarthritis Outcome Score (KOOS) or Hip disability and Osteoarthritis Outcome Score (HOOS) questionnaire and the OsteoArthritis Knee and Hip Quality Of Life questionnaire (OAKHQOL). The patients were given a second KOOS or HOOS questionn…

Cross-Cultural Adaptation, Translation, and Validation of the Spanish Foot and Ankle Outcome Score Questionnaire

2020

The Spanish Foot and Ankle Outcome Score questionnaire (FAOS‐S) may be considered a health evaluation tool with 42 questions for assessing foot health disorders. To date, FAOS has been validated in different languages, but a Spanish version was lacking. Consequently, the purpose of this study was to translate and validate the Spanish version of the FAOS (FAOS es). A suitable method was developed for the translation protocol and cross‐cultural validation from Swedish to Spanish. Regarding the total marks from each domain, agreement degrees and confidence were analysed using the Cronbach's α and intraclass correlation coefficient, respectively. In addition, the mean ± SD differences between p…

Medicinal and useful plants in the tradition of Rotonda, Pollino National Park, Southern Italy.

2013

Abstract Background This paper reports an ethnobotanical survey of the traditional uses of medicinal and useful plants in an area of the Pollino National Park, Basilicata, Southern Italy. The study, conducted between 2009 and 2010, gathered information on the medicinal plants traditionally used in the neighbourhood of town of Rotonda, in the Pollino National Park, that appears have very rich and interesting ethnopharmacological traditions. Methods In all, we interviewed 120 key informants, whose age ranged between 50 and 95 years. Results The research resulted to the identification of 78 medicinal plants belonging to 46 families. Among the species reported, 59 are used in human medicine, 18…

Quantifying and Processing Biomedical and Behavioral Signals

2019

Come pensiamo noi antropologi? Per nugoli di polvere e brezze d’aria

2015

In front of my window, at home, I am dusting some books and, by doing it, I think of some possible ways to capture my stream of consciousness. What is my ambition? By connecting a simple and daily life action (dusting) to the general and pervading act of thinking, I try to do an anthropology of daily life and of thinking.

Seasonal variability of radiation tide in Gulf of Riga

2020

Diurnal oscillations of water level in Gulf of Riga are considered. It was found that there is distinct daily pattern of diurnal oscillations in certain seasons. The role of sea breeze, gravitational tides and atmospheric pressure gradient are analysed. The interference of the first two effects provide the dominant role in diurnal oscillations. The effect of gravitational tides is described both with sole tidal forcing and also in real case with atmospheric forcing and stratification. The yearly variation of the declination of the Sun and stratification leads to seasonal intensification of gravitational tides in Gulf of Riga. Correlation between gravitational tide of the Sun with its radiat…

Stima della radiazione solare giornaliera in sicilia mediante i dati di temperatura massima e minima

2009

By using thermometric data series from 36 sicilian stations , the authors use different relationship for indirect determination of daily solar radiation. The best performance was given by Hargreaves-Samani formula which is then parameterized by the authors for the investigated region.

Applying Visual Analysis Methods for mapping Emotions Felt along Daily Trips

2013

International audience; Visual analytics are tools and methods allowing the visual analysis of large sets of movement data. We here use these methods to analyze intra-urban daily trips of individuals as well as the emotion felt by the individuals along their trip. The interdisciplinary research project ECDESUP (Evaluation, Choice and Decision in the use of Urban and Peri-Urban Spaces, www.ecdesup.org/) allowed us to obtain the data via a survey done in the town of Besançon (Eastern France). The first objective was to determine if some places in the city gather a specific type of emotions (either positive or negative) with respect to the day of the week and/or the time of the day. The second…