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Relationships of Social Physique Anxiety and Behavioural Regulations to the Intention-Behaviour Gap Model
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Given the increasing rate of inactive individuals, it is crucial that there is research focused on understanding the factors that may be related to lower exercise behaviour. A number of constructs are known to have a relationship with participation in exercise behaviour, including social physique...
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Research and Clinical Application of the Menopause-specific Quality of Life (MENQOL) Questionnaire: a comprehensive systematic review
Download2013-10-29
Hegadoren, Kathleen, Lewis, Jacqueline, Ross, Sue J., Shandro, Tami, Campbell, Sandy, Sydora, Beate C., Yuksel, Nese, Fast, Hilary
This study reviews the literature surrounding the use of the Meonpause-specific Quality of Life questionnaire (MENQOL). One hundred sixty-six articles were included in the qualitative and quantitiative analyses for this study. The study revealed that the tool has been used extensively and...
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Respiration, Acid/Base, Ammonia and Ionoregulatory Strategies in the Pacific hagfish (Eptatretus stoutii)
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Hagfish feed on putrefied carrion, which poses several environmental challenges to the scavenger including hypoxia (Low PO2), hypercapnia (high PCO2) and high environmental ammonia (HEA). To any other organism, these conditions would be physiologically challenging; however, hagfish seem to have...
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2009
Lix, Lisa M., Bruce, Sharon, Sarkar, Joykrishna, Young, T. Kue
"Background: In Canada, the prevalence of behavioural risk factors and chronic conditions differs for Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal populations, but little research has examined changes over time. This study compares several major risk factors and chronic conditions in Aboriginal and...
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Risk of bias versus quality assessment of randomised controlled trials: cross sectional study.
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Dryden, D. M., Krebs Seida, J., Ospina, M., Hooton, N., Hartling, L., Klassen, T. P., Liang, Y.
Objectives To evaluate the risk of bias tool, introduced by the Cochrane Collaboration for assessing the internal validity of randomised trials, for inter-rater agreement, concurrent validity compared with the Jadad scale and Schulz approach to allocation concealment, and the relation between...
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Fall 2009
Skeletal muscle is a heterogeneous, multinucleated, post-mitotic tissue that contains many functionally diverse fibre types that are capable of adjusting their phenotypic properties in response to altered contractile demands. This plasticity, or adaptability of skeletal muscle is largely...
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2012-01-01
Fraser, S. N., Spence, J. C., Garcia Bengoechea, E., McGannon, K. R., Berry, T. R., Loitz, C. C.
Background: Physical inactivity has been a significant health concern among the Canadian population over the last decade. Purpose: To study the trend in leisure-time physical activity (LTPA) of Albertans from 2000 to 2011 and to assesses the relationship between sociodemographic factors and LTPA....
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Strategies for incorporating patientreported outcomes in the care of people with chronic kidney disease (PRO kidney): a protocol for a realist synthesis
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Schick-Marakoff, Kara, Thummapol, Onouma, Thompson, Stephanie, Flynn, Rachel, Karimi-Dehkordi, Mehri, Klarenbach, Scott, Sawatzky, Richard, Greenhalgh, Joanne
Background: Patient-reported outcomes and experience measures (jointly referred to here as PROs) are internationally recognized as a means for patients to provide information about their quality of life, symptoms, and experiences with care. Although increasingly recognized as key to improving the...