Family Interventions for Physical Health
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Factor Analysis Definition Factor analysis (FA) is an advanced statistical method for examining the relationships between a set of variables without identifying a specific response variable. FA is based on a model that assumes that correlations between pairs of measured variables can be explained by the connections of the measured variables to a small number of non-measurable (latent) but meaningful variables, which are termed factors. The aims of FA are to (a) reduce the number of variables and (b) detect structure in the relationships between variables, i. e. to classify variables. For example, FA is often used in survey research to see if a long series of questions can be grouped into shorter sets of questions, each of which describes an aspect or factor of the phenomena being studied. A distinction can be made between two different types of FA – explanatory and confirmatory. Explanatory FA identifies relationships among variables that are often far from obvious in the original data. The purpose is to summarize and concisely describe the data by grouping correlated variables together. Confirmatory FA is a version of FA in which specific hypotheses about structure and relations between latent variables that underlie the data are tested. It is used to confirm the existence of these hypothetical constructs in a fresh set of data and has strong similarities to structural equation modeling.
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Failure (Patient) Definition A patient is scored as a failure if he or she suffered the outcome of interest. If the patient failed, the length of follow-up is the time between diagnosis and failure. The sort of untoward events that could be studied include myocardial infarctions, leukemia relapses, strokes, metastatic developments, and death from one of a certain set of specified causes (ignoring deaths from other causes). In all of these cases, the design principles and statistical methods are virtually the same: the times at which each patient who suffers the event of interest does so are observed and analyzed.
Fair Information Practice Definition “Fair information practice” is a set of principles that define the responsibilities of an organization that holds confidential information about individuals. It was incorporated into the Federal Privacy Act of 1974 in the US. Consumers are guaranteed the right to have access to information about them and to correct this information to the extent allowed by law. According to this practice, confidential information collected by public health organizations should be relevant to public health, must have written consent from the patient who provided them, and may be used strictly according to the
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stated purpose. Furthermore, the information in the system must not be lost, altered or destroyed, and access to information must be made on a “need-to-know” basis – i. e. allowed to a small number of health professionals who have adequate need for the information.
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