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Worst Imaginable
About: Worst Imaginable is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 3 publications have been published within this topic receiving 27 citations.
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TL;DR: It appears that interpretations of the EQ-VAS vary across Asian respondents, and future studies should investigate whether the variations are associated with any respondent characteristics and whether the scale could be modified to achieve better respondent acceptance.
Abstract: This study aimed to understand how respondents from three Asian countries interpret and perceive the EuroQol Visual Analogue Scale (EQ-VAS). Data were from a project that aimed to examine the cultural appropriateness of EQ-5D in Asia. Members of the general public from China, Japan, and Singapore were interviewed one-to-one in their preferred languages. Open-ended questions (e.g. What does “best imaginable health” mean to you?) were used to elicit participants’ interpretation of the labels of EQ-VAS. How the scale could be improved was also probed. Thematic and content analyses were performed separately for each country before pooling for comparison. Sixty Chinese, 24 Japanese, and 60 Singaporeans were interviewed. Interpretations of the label “Best Imaginable Health” varied among the participants. Interestingly, some participants indicated that “Best Imaginable Health” is unachievable. Interpretations for “Worst Imaginable Health” also varied, with participants referring primarily to one of three themes, namely, “death,” “disease,” and “disability.” There were different opinions as to what changes in health would correspond to a 5- to 10-point change on the EQ-VAS. While participants opined that EQ-VAS is easy to understand, some criticized it for being too granular and that scale labels are open to interpretation. Findings from the three countries were similar. It appears that interpretations of the EQ-VAS vary across Asian respondents. Future studies should investigate whether the variations are associated with any respondent characteristics and whether the EQ-VAS could be modified to achieve better respondent acceptance.
27 citations
1 Dec 1998
TL;DR: Johnson as discussed by the authors wrote: "A day does not pass when I do not brood on the negative social profile and bad PR that seem to envelop contemporary images of black males in America. As an artist and a father, I am filled with urgency and more than a l itt le anger because I know my own son, now approaching his twenty-first birthday, and my fourteen-year-old daughter must negotiate their way through an uncivil public space soured by the steady bombardment of media images that portray black people in the worst imaginable ways: as welfare cheats, criminals
Abstract: A day does not pass when I do not brood on the negative social profile and bad PR that seem to envelop contemporary images of black males in America. As an artist and a father, I am filled with urgency and more than a l itt le anger because I know my own son, now approaching his twentyfirst birthday, and my fourteen-year-old daughter must negotiate their way through an uncivil public space soured by the steady bombardment of media images that portray black people in the worst imaginable ways: as welfare cheats, criminals, incompetent parents, ex-cons, poor students, crackheads, as an af f i rmat ive-act ion l iabi l i ty in the workplace and, to put this bluntly, as the corrupting worm coiled inside the American apple. --C. Johnson, Black Men Speaking
24 citations
1 Jan 2011
TL;DR: Data from the study “Portuguese Population’s Food Habits and Lifestyles” were used and a national representative sample of 3529 Portuguese adults was interviewed at home between February and April 2009.
Abstract: Data from the study “Portuguese Population’s Food Habits and Lifestyles” were used. A national representative sample of 3529 Portuguese adults was interviewed at home between February and April 2009. Health status was evaluated by the EQ-5D (Szende et al. 1997). The EQ visual analogue scale rates the subject's own assessment of their health status (0 = worst imaginable health; 100 = best imaginable health). Physical activity was evaluated by the International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ; Craig et al. 2003). The present analysis is carried out in 2811 subjects due to incompleteness of 718 records.
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| 2021 | 1 |
| 2011 | 1 |
| 1998 | 1 |