Mohammad Atari

Department of Psychology, University of Tehran

[ 1 ] - Developing a Psychometric Scale for Brief Evaluation of Outpatient Satisfaction

Background and Objectives: Patient satisfaction is a key feature of quality improvement in modern health care systems. The focus of patient satisfaction studies has been on inpatient satisfaction measurement. As such, valid and reliable instruments for assessment of outpatient satisfaction are lacking in the field. This study aimed to develop and validate a brief scale to facilitate assessing o...

[ 2 ] - Development and Validation of the Preliminary Version of Brief Inpatient Satisfaction Scale (BISS)

Background and Objectives: Questionnaire-based survey is the most common way of assessing patient satisfaction. However, most relevant survey instruments have been developed in western countries, and valid and reliable context-specific survey tools in this area are lacking. To help filling this gap, in this study we have developed and validated the preliminary version of the novel Brief Inpatie...

[ 3 ] - تاریک امّا نه سیاه: پاسخی به زارعی، قربانی و غریبی (1395)

     Zarei, Ghorbani, and Gharibi (2016) reviewed the construct of the Dark Triad in a review article. The current paper is a response to these authors. Hereby, we argue that the proposed translations of these authors into Persian language are technically problematic. In addition to shortcomings in literature review, Machiavellianism and psychopathy are not ...

[ 4 ] - لزوم سنجش و گزارش شاخص‌های اندازه اثر در

Dissatisfaction with tests of statistical significance in last decades has led to emergence of effect size measures. Effect size is generally a measure, incorporated into statistical analyses in order to emphasize the size of the difference rather than sample size. Assessing and reporting measures of effect size are of absolute importance in behavioral sciences and American Psychological Associ...