The Reactive Proactive Aggression Questionnaire (RPQ) is a self-report tool for assessing reactive aggression (RA) and proactive aggression (PA). This study contributes to the literature by testing the psychometric properties of the RPQ across detained boys from various ethnicities whilst using data that were gathered during clinical assessments. The factorial, convergent, and criterion validit...

BACKGROUND The translation and cultural adaptation of widely accepted, psychometrically tested tools is regarded as an essential component of effective human resource management in the primary care arena. The Training Needs Assessment (TNA) is a widely used, valid instrument, designed to measure professional development needs of health care professionals, especially in primary health care. This...

BACKGROUND Dizziness as a common symptom affecting many aspects of the patient's life and it is hard to be fully evaluated. The dizziness handicap inventory (DHI) is a reliable self-perceived questionnaire in the evaluation of dizziness impacts. The purposes of this study are translation of the DHI to Persian language and measuring its psychometric properties, including face, content, discrimin...

The EBN users’ guide in the previous issue of Evidence-Based Nursing outlined the primary and secondary questions for evaluating studies of healthcare interventions. One of the primary questions for assessing the validity of a study’s findings is whether the assignment of patients to treatments was randomised and whether randomisation was concealed. One of the secondary questions is whether pat...

The scientific community’s quest for unbiased research received a strong boost from a recent policy amendment on randomised controlled trials (RCTs) in this journal. Henceforth, the status of allocation concealment will be clearly indicated in the abstracts along with that of blinding. Thus, readers will have additional information by which to judge the internal validity of trials. In this edit...

AIM To evaluate the validity and reliability of Turkish version of Extended Aberdeen Spine Pain Scale (EASP). MATERIAL AND METHODS After cultural adaptation, the questionnaire was administered to 120 patients. Test-retest reliability, internal consistency, construct and criterion validity and responsiveness to treatment were measured. All questionnaires were administered at baseline, 1 day la...

BACKGROUND Due to the rapidly increasing number of older people worldwide, the prevalence of frailty among older adults is expected to escalate in coming decades. It is crucial to recognize early onset symptoms to initiate specific preventive care. Therefore, early detection of frailty with appropriate screening instruments is needed. The aim of this study was to evaluate the underlying dimensi...

OBJECTIVE To test the 'Liverpool Osteoarthritis in Dogs' (LOAD) questionnaire for construct and criterion validity, and to similarly test the Helsinki Chronic Pain Index (HCPI) and the Canine Brief Pain Inventory (CBPI). DESIGN Prospective Study. ANIMALS 222 dogs with osteoarthritis. PROCEDURE Osteoarthritis was diagnosed in a cohort of dogs on the basis of clinical history and orthopedic...

Medical research and clinical trials are often based on hypotheses that were observed from clinical practice with noticeable evidence. Forming clinically significant hypotheses will greatly benefit the success of clinical research and ensure both external and internal validity of the trial. In this talk, I will introduce a knowledge discovery approach to automatically identify populations of su...

Re-engineered transcriptional regulation of hydrogenase • to achieve four-fold higher activity (from 0.5 to 2 nmol H2*mg protein *h). Examined the effect of transcriptional modifications on • hydrogenase maturation and found that proper regulation of accessory genes is essential for optimal hydrogenase maturation. Created mutants of the environmentally-derived • hydrogenase small subunit with f...