Background The Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale(HADS)is a widely used instrument tomeasure anxiety and depression *** This study aimed to translate,validate and test the applicability of the Urdu version of the ...
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Background The Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale(HADS)is a widely used instrument to measure anxiety and depression *** This study aimed to translate,validate and test the applicability of the Urdu version of the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale(HADS/UV)among pregnant *** The original English version of the HADS was translated into Urdu by three bilingual experts and retranslated to English using the forward-backward *** questionnaire was administered to a sample of 200 pregnant women availing obstetrics and gynaecology services for routine prenatal checkups of ayub Teaching Hospital,Abbottabad,*** properties of the instrument,including reliability(internal consistency,test-retest analysis and interitems correlation),were *** and content validity were also *** Validity Index(CVI)was determined using the average approach and ItemLevel Content Validity Index(I-CVI)and Scale-Level Content Validity Index(S-CVI)were calculated *** validity was examined through exploratory factor *** Cronbach's alpha coefficient has been found to be 0.82 for the anxiety subscale and 0.64 for the depression subscale,while overall alpha of the HADS/UV is *** Urdu version is content valid,and the SCVI of anxiety subscale,depression subscale and HADS/UV are 0.947,948 and 0.947,***-retest reliability is 0.884 and 0.934 as measured by Pearson correlation and intraclass correlation,***/UV items correlated positively with the whole scale(por analysis with varimax rotation revealed that two factors explained 42.75%of the ***'distribution was quite similar to the original *** The HADS/UV is a psychometrically sound instrument with satisfactory measurement,including good internal *** instrument shows promise to be a sound tool to assess anxiety and depression in pregnancy.
Background: Hypoxia tolerance studies in cotton are very rare in Pakistan. Unpredicted and excessive rainfalls result in severe losses to cotton crop in many regions of the country due to lack of hypoxia tolerance in...
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Background: Hypoxia tolerance studies in cotton are very rare in Pakistan. Unpredicted and excessive rainfalls result in severe losses to cotton crop in many regions of the country due to lack of hypoxia tolerance in current cotton varieties. The genotypes that can tolerate flooding are not reported earlier. The studies were conducted to explore hypoxia tolerance in local germplasm which will help to develop hypoxia tolerant cotton varieties. method: An experiment with randomized complete different cotton varieties. The genotypes were given conditions. blocks was designed to study the hypoxia tolerance in two treatments i.e., water logged and non-water logged Results: The genotypes showed significant variability for yield, fiber and physiological traits. The hypoxia studies revealed that there is significant reduction for plant height in water sensitive genotype LRA-5166. The genotype mNH-786 showed better yield and mNH-556 showed superior ginning outturn percentage under water logged conditions. Staple length, strength and micronaire values also decreased under hypoxia. Similar pattern of negative effects were observed for Chlorophyll a, b contents and chl a/b ratio. Two hypoxia tolerant cultivars CIm-573 and mNH-564 had significantly higher chlorophyll a (1.664, 1.551) than other cultivars under both normal and waterlogged conditions. There was a significant decrease in total free amino acids in all genotypes/cultivars due to waterlogging. Free amino acid contents were significantly higher in two waterlogging sensitive cultivars, CEDIX and N-KRISHmA, than other cultivars under both non-waterlogged and waterlogged conditions. Waterlogging caused a significant reduction in shoot soluble proteins and increase in shoot proline. The genotype LRA-5166 was the highest in shoot soluble proteins content and showed significant decrease in shoot proline. Conclusions: With respect to yield mNH-786 showed better results and regarding ginning outturn percentage mNH-556 exhibite
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