OBJECTIVES There is a clinical impression of dissatisfaction with treatment for hypothyroidism among some patients. Psychometric properties of the new ThyTSQ questionnaire are evaluated. The questionnaire, measuring patients' satisfaction with their treatment for hypothyroidism, has two parts: the seven-item ThyTSQ-Present and four-item ThyTSQ-Past, measuring satisfaction with present and past ...

AIM To develop and test the psychometric characteristics of a questionnaire measuring attitudes toward plagiarism. METHODS Participants were 227 undergraduates and graduate students (128 women and 99 men) from three Croatian universities, with a median age of 21 years (range 18 to 48). Research was conducted from March to June 2009. For the purpose of construction of the first version of the ...

BACKGROUND Items from respiratory questionnaires validated in older children are often used in research studies of preterm infants, although they have not been validated in this population. We aimed to assess both test-retest reliability and convergent validity of a group of commonly used respiratory questionnaire items in a cohort of preterm infants. METHODS The health status of 300 preterm ...

BACKGROUND Anogenital warts are the most easily recognized sign of genital Human Papilloma Virus infection. The objective was to develop a short, valid and reliable questionnaire to measure Health Related Quality of Life (HRQL) in patients with anogenital warts. METHODS First a literature review was performed to identify relevant papers describing the impact of anogenital warts in HRQL; secon...

BACKGROUND The measurement of patient and professional views of quality are important components in the evaluation of health care delivery. OBJECTIVE To describe the development and evaluation of the GPs' Experiences Questionnaire (GPEQ) for assessing the quality of community mental health clinics in Norway. METHODS DESIGN Literature review, GP interviews, pre-testing of questionnaire it...

BACKGROUND To improve the implementation of innovations in healthcare settings, it is important to understand factors influencing healthcare professionals' behaviors. We aimed to develop a generic questionnaire in English and in Dutch assessing the 14 domains of behavioral determinants from the revised TDF (Cane et al., 2012) that can be tailored to suit different targets, actions, contexts, an...

The present study developed the Parenting in Adolescence Scale (PAS) based on the three-factor model of parenting by Schaefer (1965), and examined its psychometric properties. Adolescents (n = 103 junior high, 273 high school and 667 university students) completed a questionnaire. Exploratory factor analysis identified three distinct factors labeled "Acceptance" (6 items), "Psychological contro...

OBJECTIVE We aimed to develop a questionnaire assessing fears and beliefs of patients with knee OA. DESIGN We sent a detailed document reporting on a qualitative analysis of interviews of patients with knee OA to experts, and a Delphi procedure was adopted for item generation. Then, 80 physicians recruited 566 patients with knee OA to test the provisional questionnaire. Items were reduced acc...

This study focuses on the translation of cultural items specific to African-American culture through case three Turkish translations Langston Hughes’ poem ‘Merry-Go-Round’ by Necati Cumalı (1961), Özcan Özbilge (1985) and Cevat Çapan (1988). Drawing Newmark’s (1988) Vlahov Florin’s (1969) categorizations Kansu-Yetkiner et al.’s (2018) classification strategies for items, analyzes source text ta...