The purpose of the study was to assess the psychometrics properties of the Readiness for Hospital Discharge Scale (RHDS), a 23-item instrument that measures patients' perception of readiness for discharge. Data were obtained from 356 respondents from two urban tertiary medical centers (adult and children's) in the midwestern United States who were participants in a larger study of predictors an...

Introduction. Professionals who assess early childhood development highly benefit from reliable development screening measures. The Ages & Stages Questionnaire was adapted Brazil in 2010 and named ASQ-BR. Modifications in some items were required to improve the instrument's psychometric properties. The present study modified the ASQ-BR to verify if those changes increase its characteristics. Me...

The purpose of the paper is to describe the processes undertaken to evaluate the psychometric properties of a questionnaire developed to measure spirituality and examine the relationship between spirituality and coping in young adults with diabetes. The specific validation processes used were: content and face validity, construct validity using factor analysis, reliability and internal consiste...

1 Center for Language and Cognition Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands, 2 Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands, 3 Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, 4 College of Information Sciences and Technology, The Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA, United States, 5 Dep...