Spanish Questionnaires for the Assessment of Pelvic Floor Dysfunctions in Women: A Systematic Review of the Structural Characteristics and Psychometric Properties

Background: Pelvic floor dysfunctions affect a third of the adult female population, including a large number of clinical conditions, which can be evaluated through validated questionnaires that inform us of the status and perception of women both objectively and subjectively. The main objective of this study was to review and explain the topics of the validated questionnaires in Spanish on pelvic floor dysfunctions and to review their psychometric properties. Methods: A systematic review was carried out in the PUBMED and WOS databases. The keywords used were in PUBMED: ((((((((“Fecal Incontinence” [Mesh]) OR “Urinary Incontinence” [Mesh]) OR “Pelvic Organ Prolapse” [Mesh]) OR “Pelvic Floor Disorders” [Mesh]) OR “Sexual Dysfunction, Physiological” [Mesh]) OR “Pelvic Girdle Pain” [Mesh]) OR “sexual function” [Title/Abstract]) OR “Prolapse” [Title/Abstract]) AND “Surveys and Questionnaires” [Mesh] AND “Validation” [Title/Abstract] combined with the Boolean operators “AND”/“OR”. In contrast, in WOS, a segregated search was carried out with each of the terms of pelvic floor dysfunction together with “Validation” and “Surveys and Questionnaires”. All articles published up to 19 November 2021 were considered. Methodological quality was assessed with the COSMIN scale. Results: A total of 687 articles were identified, of which 13 were included. The evaluated questionnaires and the structural characteristics and psychometric properties of each of them were collected. Conclusion: The Spanish versions of the questionnaires show good basic structural and psychometric characteristics for the evaluation of patients with pelvic floor dysfunctions and that they resemble other versions of the same questionnaire published in other languages.

Creating a Corpus of Multilingual Parent-Child Speech Remotely: Lessons Learned in a Large-Scale Onscreen Picturebook Sharing Task

With lockdowns and social distancing measures in place, research teams looking to collect naturalistic parent-child speech interactions have to develop alternatives to in-lab recordings and observational studies with long-stretch recordings. We designed a novel micro-longitudinal study, the Talk Together Study, which allowed us to create a rich corpus of parent-child speech interactions in a fully online environment (N participants = 142, N recordings = 410). In this paper, we discuss the methods we used, and the lessons learned during adapting and running the study. These lessons learned cover nine domains of research design, monitoring and feedback: Recruitment strategies, Surveys and Questionnaires, Video-call scheduling, Speech elicitation tools, Videocall protocols, Participant remuneration strategies, Project monitoring, Participant retention, and Data Quality, and may be used as a primer for teams planning to conduct remote studies in the future.

Emoji Essence: Detecting User Emotional Response on Visual Centre Field with Emoticons

User experience is understood in so many ways, like a one on one interaction (subjective views), online surveys and questionnaires. This is simply so get the user’s implicit response, this paper demonstrates the underlying user emotion on a particular interface such as the webpage visual content based on the context of familiarisation to convey users’ emotion on the interface using emoji, we integrated physiological readings and eye movement behaviour to convey user emotion on the visual centre field of a web interface. The physiological reading is synchronised with the eye tracker to obtain correlating user interaction, and emoticons are used as a form of emotion conveyance on the interface. The eye movement prediction is obtained through a control system’s loop and is represented by different color display of gaze points (GT) that detects a particular user’s emotion on the webpage interface. These are interpreted by the emoticons. Result shows synchronised readings which correlates to area of interests (AOI) of the webpage and user emotion. These are prototypical instances of authentic user response execution for a computer interface and to easily identify user response without user subjective response for better and easy design decisions.

Creating a corpus of multilingual parent-child speech remotely: Lessons learned in a large-scale onscreen picturebook sharing task

With lockdowns and the implementation of social distancing measures in place, research teams looking to collect naturalistic parent-child speech interactions have to look for methods alternative to in-lab recordings and observational studies with long-stretch recordings. We designed a novel micro-longitudinal study, the Talk Together Study, which allowed us to create a rich corpus of parent-child speech interactions in a fully online environment (N participants = 142, N recordings = 414). In this paper, we discuss the novel methods we used, and the lessons learned during adapting and running the study. These lessons learned cover 10 domains of research design, monitoring and feedback: Recruitment strategies; Surveys and Questionnaires; Video-call scheduling; Speech elicitation tools; Videocall protocols; Participant remuneration strategies; Project monitoring; Participant retention; Parental feedback; and Research team feedback, and may be used as recommendations for teams who are planning to conduct remote studies in the future.

Emotional Effects Induced by the Application of a Cosmetic Product: A Real-Time Electrophysiological Evaluation

Well-being is an essential concept in cosmetics, but its complexity makes it very difficult to measure. The goal of the present study was to use electroencephalography (EEG) to compare the emotions induced by the application of two cosmetic products, and to offer to the experimenter a real-time representation of the participants’ emotional state. Fifteen female subjects participated in a cross-over study. Two cosmetic products of similar consistency were compared and applied from the dominant hand to the non-dominant hand. During the application, the neural activity of each participant was recorded with EEG. We found that the most appreciated product was the one that induced emotions with the most positive valence and the higher arousal, as recorded by EEG. Moreover, the videos recorded of each participant allowed us to attest to the differences in emotion processing for each product in real-time. This exploratory study shows that EEG can be successfully used to assess the emotions induced by the application of a cosmetic product, and in real-time. This technique could be a useful adjunct to other methods of examining emotions, such as observational experiments, surveys, and questionnaires.

Avaliação das relações familiares durante a gravidez: quais instrumentos são utilizados?

O relacionamento familiar estruturado desempenha papel decisivo na prevenção e no tratamento de comorbidades, em especial no período gestacional. O objetivo deste estudo foi sistematizar o conhecimento produzido acerca dos instrumentos utilizados para avaliação das relações familiares de gestantes. Trata-se de revisão integrativa da literatura realizada nas bases de dados LILACS, SciELO, MEDLINE® e PubMed® publicados entre 1° de janeiro de 2009 a 16 de abril de 2019. Utilizaram-se os seguintes descritores controlados “family relations AND pregnant women AND surveys AND questionnaires”. Preencheram os critérios de inclusão 25 artigos. Destes, 64% foram classificados como estudos transversais. Dentre os instrumentos utilizados para avaliação das relações familiares de gestantes mais prevalentes estiveram o Autonomy and Relatedness Inventory, o Attachment Style Interview, The Pregnancy Experience Scale, o Family Relation Index e a Mini International Neuropsychiatric Interview. Em meio aos artigos selecionados, emergiram temáticas que apresentavam influência direta sobre as relações familiares, como violência por parceiro íntimo, promoção da saúde na gestação, depressão gestacional e binômio mãe e filho. Para cada objeto de estudo relacionado, foram utilizados questionários específicos e semiestruturados. Foram escassos os questionários específicos para o objetivo geral de avaliação das relações familiares durante o período gestacional. Torna-se imprescindível a adequação de questionários de fácil aplicação na prática clínica, que avaliem apropriadamente a qualidade das relações no período gestacional, adaptados à realidade brasileira.

Is COVID-19 a Real Incentive for Flu Vaccination? Let the Numbers Speak for Themselves

Seasonal flu vaccination is one of the most important strategies for preventing influenza. The attitude towards flu vaccination in light of the COVID-19 pandemic has so far been studied in the literature mostly with the help of surveys and questionnaires. Whether a person chooses to be vaccinated or not during the COVID-19 pandemic, however, speaks louder than any declaration of intention. In our teaching hospital, we registered a statistically significant increase in flu vaccination coverage across all professional categories between the 2019/2020 and the 2020/2021 campaign (24.19% vs. 54.56%, p < 0.0001). A linear regression model, based on data from four previous campaigns, predicted for the 2020/2021 campaign a total flu vaccination coverage of 30.35%. A coverage of 54.46% was, instead, observed, with a statistically significant difference from the predicted value (p < 0.0001). The COVID-19 pandemic can, therefore, be considered as an incentive that significantly and dramatically increased adherence to flu vaccination among our healthcare workers.

Keputusan Pembelian Online Saat Pandemi Covid 19 di Fakultas Ekonomi Dan Bisnis Universitas Dharma Andalas

This study aims to identify the behavior of online purchasing decisions by students during the Covid 19 pandemic at the Faculty of Economics and Business, Dharma Andalas University. The study population was 1,132 people and a sample of 296 people used the Slovin formula with the sampling technique using proportional sampling allocation. Data collection techniques using documentation studies, surveys and questionnaires obtained through field research. Data analysis was performed by multiple linear regression analysis. Before the data is analyzed, first the instrument test and classical assumption are tested. The research hypothesis was tested partially and simultaneously at the 5% significance level. The results showed that partially and simultaneously needs (X1), lifestyle (X2), ease to use (X3) and quality of information (X4) significantly influence purchasing decisions (Y), ABSTRAK Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengidentifikasi perilaku keputusan pembelian online olah mahasiswa saat pandemi covid 19 di Fakultas Ekonomi dan Bisnis Universitas Dharma Andalas. Populasi penelitian sebanyak 1.132 orang dan sampel 296 orang menggunakan rumus Slovin dengan teknik pengambilan sampel secara alokasi proportional sampling. Teknik pengumpulan data menggunakan studi dokumentasi, survei dan angket yang diperoleh melalui field research. Analisa data dilakukan dengan analisis regresi linier berganda. Sebelum data dianalisis terlebih dahulu dilakukan uji instrumen dan uji asumsi klasik. Hipotesis penelitian diuji secara parsial dan simultan pada tingkat signifikansi 5%. Hasil penelitian menunjukan bahwa kebutuhan (X1), gaya hidup (X2), kemudahan (X3) dan kualitas informasi (X4) berpengaruh secara signifikan terhadap keputusan pembelian (Y)

Motives of Students for Practicing Fitness Technologies

The article considers the general characteristics of fitness technologies, identifies the main motives and needs of students. With the popularization and development of the fitness industry, solutions to the problem of attracting students to physical education in the framework of training sessions can be found in the possibilities of using various modern fitness technologies. As practice shows, today the most popular fitness technologies are: classical aerobics, dance aerobics, step aerobics, fitball aerobics, strength aerobics using various weights, Pilates, fitness yoga, aqua aerobics, and are gaining great popularity crossfit technologies, etc. To determine the main motives and needs of applicants to engage in various fitness technologies, we conducted a survey and survey of students of the educational and scientific institute of physical education and sports of the State Institution «Lugansk National University named after Taras Shevchenko». 67 students of 1-4 courses took part in these surveys and questionnaires. The list of received motives fully reflects the interests and needs of modern youth. Integrated fitness technologies help to meet the needs and motives of students, increase the level of physical fitness, and also have a positive effect on academic performance and attendance, thereby ensuring the effectiveness of the educational process.