A special feature of Probability and Statistics Day at UMBC 2013 is that the conference, including the workshop, is open to all statistics graduate students from UMBC and local universites free of charge; however, REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED! The deadline to register is Friday, April 12, 2013. // REGISTER NOW
For more information, contact any member of the organizing committee:
Bimal Sinha
Conference Chair
443.538.3012
Kofi Adragni
410.455.2406
Yvonne Huang
410.455.2422
Yaakov Malinovsky
410.455.2968
Thomas Mathew
410.455.2418
Nagaraj Neerchal
410.455.2437
DoHwan Park
410.455.2408
Junyong Park
410.455.2407
Anindya Roy
410.455.2435
Elizabeth Stanwyck
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Participant Information
Veroni Jayawardana
Poster: Factors Associated with the function among individual with Fibromyalgia Syndrome
The purpose of this study was to assess the presence of kinesiophobia, or fear of movement, balance disorders and anxiety-related psychological conditions to overall function and activity level. The data for the study were collected by a national internet survey of community-based individuals with fibromyalgia (FM). In this study the dependent variable was Revised Fibromyalgia Impact Questionnaire (FIQR) and independent variables (factors) were Activities-Specific Balance Confidence Scale (ABC), Primary Care Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Screen (PC-PTSD), Tampa Scale of Kinesiophobia (TSK), Hypermobility (HMS), Vertigo Symptom Scale (VSS-SF), Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder (OCPD), Pain, and Physical Activity. Results indicated function (FIQR) was highly correlated to the ABC, Pain, PTSD, TSK and VSS. Linear-regression model using both the methods Best Subset Regression and Bayesian approach showed that the contribution of significant factors was in expected directions.