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Presents four commentaries based on an analysis of a worldwide questionnaire and oral interviews with French teachers. Deals with: (1) attitudes toward French language and people; (2) attitudes toward students; (3) choice of teaching as profession; and (4) changing world view of French teachers. (For related article see FL 514 004). (AMH)

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Abstract: The aim of this paper is to present McHale''s coparenting scale, a self-administered questionnaire enabling assessment of the quality of coparenting, and first steps in structural and construct validation of the French version. A total of 41French speaking Swiss families and 84US families completed this questionnaire and the Dyadic Adjustment Scale, a measure of marital satisfaction. The results of the Swiss families correspond to those of US families: first, items distributed into four factors (family integrity, conflict, affection and disparagement) and second, a partial link was found between quality of coparenting and marital adjustment. This finding supports the construct validity of the questionnaire, reflecting the established link between these two family sub-systems. Given that coparenting quality has a major influence on children''s socio-affective development, the questionnaire will find great use in assessing not just negative features of coparenting, such as conflicts and disparagement, but also positive components such as warmth and support. This will be an important asset for research as well as clinical purposes. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

Abstract: What is the future for children affected by pervasive developmental disorders (PDD)? In this paper, we wish to contribute answering this question by studying how children with PDD being treated into the child day care unit of Montperrin Hospital at Aix-en-Provence between 1988 and 2005 evolved when reaching adolescence and adulthood. Our study includes 32 subjects (29 boys and three girls) with PDD. In order to describe their initial clinical status at the day care unit during childhood, we built individual assessment scales including the following items: i) diagnosis according to ICD-10 (WHO, 1994) and CFTMEA-R (2000); ii) verbal and intellectual levels; iii) level of social interaction, and iv) scholar status, and we fulfilled these scales according to information found in their files archived at Montperrin Hospital. To describe their current clinical status, we established individual questionnaires including the same items plus their current type of care, the various activities they practice, and their life project, and we sent the questionnaires to the psychiatrists of the medico-social structures and services where the subjects are currently treated. Results of our study overall show that the outcome of children with PDD is not that dark comparatively to what was first described in the literature. For instance, the number of mute subjects was divided by two. When reaching adolescence, subjects interact more with their peers (more than 80% of the children did not have any social interaction at the day care unit versus 50% now). Several symptoms significantly improved such as self-injury, hetero-aggressive behaviours and hyperactivity. On the other hand inadequate, stereotyped and odd behaviours and movements mostly persisted, which constitute limitations for their social and professional adaptation. As already underlined in previous studies, a low IQ and the absence of language after five years old are bad prognosis factors. The diagnosis category is also a prognosis factor, infantile autism having the worst prognosis. We also suggest that the change of nosographic references, which corresponds to changes of representations and of type of treatments and education, is able to explain the better prognosis of PDD. The main problem confirmed by our study is the lack of structures and services really adapted to their disorders. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

Abstract: The French quality control is organized by the French Health Products Safety Agency. In 2005, the immuno-hæmatology testing control included the screening of an anti KEL 1 antibody. 17 out of 2639 laboratories (0,64%) answered ‘negative screening’. All laboratories received a questionnaire in order to understand the failure. In this paper the authors present the detailed laboratories'' responses and failure explanations. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

Abstract: Objectives: Many questionnaires estimate physical activity levels or its corresponding energy expenditure levels while only a few ones estimate fitness levels. This paper presents a review of these questionnaires, available both in English and in French. Topics: Physical activity (PA) is defined as any body motion resulting from skeletal muscle contraction and energy expenditure. Physical fitness (PF) is defined as a set of attributes (cardiorespiratory and muscular endurance and power, strength, etc.) necessary to perform physical activity to a set level of performance. Assessing PA and PF with heart rate monitors, accelerometers, etc., is not very practical for epidemiological studies. Questionnaires appear to be the most common and useful methods. Results of PA questionnaire are expressed in activity indices or energy expenditure. PF questionnaires are also based on physical activity assessment to predict VO2max but the type and number of questions differ from PA questionnaires. Conclusion: English questionnaires are more numerous than french ones. Whether written in English or French, most questionnaires assess PA while only a few ones, predict PF. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

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Objectives. –The birth of a high risk infant—such as a very or extremely premature infant—can represent an important traumatic experience for parents. R. DeMier, M. Hynan et al’s “Perinatal PTSD Questionnaire” aims at exploring, retrospectively, parent’s posttraumatic stress reactions following the birth of a high risk infant. This paper describes the French validation of this questionnaire.Methods. –Fifty-two families with a very or extremely premature infant and 25 families with a full term infant responded to the “Perinatal PTSD Questionnaire” and the “Impact of Event Scale” when children were 18 months old.Results. –Parents of high risk infants can present posttraumatic stress reactions such as intrusion, avoidance or arousal symptoms. The French version of the “Perinatal PTSD Questionnaire” has satisfactory psychometric properties.Conclusions. –As posttraumatic reactions are not directly related to objective descriptions of the stressful event, it may be essential to the liaison child psychiatrist to consider individual posttraumatic reactions in order to optimise preventive intervention with the parents. A questionnaire should not replace a clinical interview, however it may represent a useful screening tool. Also, this questionnaire should be useful for research purposes. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

The purpose of the present paper, is to present a contribution to the understanding of certain phenomena of recreational sport. The study is prepared by 3rd year university students after receiving tuition in questionnaire survey methods and in some basic principles of quantitative analysis. A report of a completed research activity is not presented here, but rather a review of issues as applied to the practical teaching of a research method is presented. The article is not of a kind usually to be found in scientific literature but nevertheless of the essence as regards epistemology, focuses principally on linking together theory and practice by presenting a project with a practical outcome. Through all the stages, from acquiring the basic knowledge to the critical utilization of certain results, the students involved played out the complete procedure, involving the initial design of the survey and the collection of the raw data. This article thus describes from the floor up the gradual construction of a teaching content aimed at allowing the students to acquire knowledge, know-how and self-management skills

Background: In his or her practice, a psychiatrist must often deal with patients who refuse treatment. In 1990, Quebec radically changed this situation by introducing a Civil Code provision imposing judicial intervention to treat an individual deemed unfit to consent, against his or her will. This paper presents an assessment and survey of patients and attending psychiatrists who have used this Code provision.Method: Thirty-nine subjects who explicitly refused treatment were brought to court. We asked a subgroup of these patients to be interviewed, using the Drug Attitude Inventory (DAI), the Clinical Global Impression (CGI), and 2 questionnaires specifically considering the court experience of patients and attending psychiatrists.Results: The results of the survey show that patients remember their experience in court as rather uncomfortable. However, the therapeutic alliance remained unchanged, even after the legal procedure. Physicians agreed that patients would not have been clinically well enough to leave the hospital if they had not received the drug regimen resulting from the court decision. The dissociation between the perceptions of patients and physicians is compared with that found in previous studies in the United States.Conclusion: Even with a limited sample, this study addresses a delicate, difficult situation that professionals are increasingly likely to confront. It also proposes further research on alternatives to judicial intervention. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Geosites are relief forms with a scientific, aesthetical, ecological, economical, and cultural value, in respect of human perception, that completes the total heritage of a given territory. In the last decade, those geosites were strongly related with the touristic phenomenon. This paper presents an empirical study about some most important geosites of the Danube defile in Romania. The point of view from which the analyze is made concerns the opinions of the tourists presented here in the summer of 2011. Consequently, we have made practically 105 questionnaires in situ and we have extracted some of the special questions among them. The results indicate the tourists’ opinions about the actual touristic phenomenon in the Danube defile.

The coursebook is still a pivotal component in any foreign language course, even though it may be complemented with the use of the new technologies. As students’ needs keep changing all the time, and schools as well as teachers have to meet them, publishers try to obtain first hand information about them. Apart from this, publishers also try to establish whether their responses by means of the new methods they launch onto the market really satisfy these needs. To do so, they seek language teachers’ cooperation, which adopts different ways– classroom observation, exchanging opinions with teachers, piloting specific units from a new method, considering or assessing particular aspects that the publishers are interested in, revising a new method. This paper illustrates the experience of a teacher of English at a Escuela Oficial de Idiomas in Spain (a state language school in Spain, one of the authorised institutions in Spain for the teaching of foreign languages), who has collaborated with various publishers in different ways. His experience may act as a stimulus for other language teachers who may decide to take part in other projects in the future if they have the chance to do so.

The objective of this research is to study the impact of the perceived quality of the commercial Web site (convenience, selection of the product/service, informativeness of the site, price and customization) on e-satisfaction. In the same way, to see the moderating impact of the type of product (utility and hedonist) on this relation. The data-gathering was carried out by a laboratory experiment followed by a questionnaire. The results show that the quality of the Web sites (convenience, selection of the product, informativeness of the site, price and customisation) influence positively the satisfaction of the cybercostomers. Finally, the type of product (utility and hedonist) has a positive significant impact on this relation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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