BACKGROUND Health professionals play a key role in the prevention and treatment of excess weight and obesity, but many have expressed a lack of confidence in their ability to manage obese patients with their delivery of weight-management care remaining limited. The specific mechanism underlying inadequate practices in professional weight management remains unclear. The primary purpose of this s...

PURPOSE Primary care health professionals suffer from high levels of burnout. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the associations of mindfulness and resilience with the features of the burnout types (overload, lack of development, neglect) in primary care physicians, taking into account the potential mediating role of negative and positive affect. METHODS A cross-sectional design wa...

BACKGROUND There is no special instrument to measure skills-based health literacy where it concerns infectious respiratory diseases. This study aimed to explore and evaluate a new skills-based instrument on health literacy regarding respiratory infectious diseases. METHODS This instrument was designed to measure not only an individual's reading and numeracy ability, but also their oral commun...

BACKGROUND Although asymptomatic, melasma inflicts significant impact on quality of life. MELASQoL is the main instrument used to assess quality of life associated with melasma, it has been validated in several languages, but its latent dimensional structure and psychometric properties haven´t been fully explored. OBJECTIVES To evaluate psychometric characteristics, information and dimensiona...

BACKGROUND Health organisations continually seek good output indicators of family medicine health care provision because they are accountable to society, they need to compare services, and need to evaluate the impact of organisational reforms. OBJECTIVES Using the sources of information routinely available in health-service management, we sought to assess the groups of components of primary h...

BACKGROUND The Health System Responsiveness Questionnaire is an instrument designed by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2000 to assess the experience of patients when interacting with the health care system. This investigation aimed to adapt a Mental Health System Responsiveness Questionnaire (MHSRQ) based on the WHO concept and evaluate its validity and reliability to the mental health c...

Objective To translate the Perceived Stress Questionnaire (PSQ) into Chinese, validate its reliability and validity in nursing students and investigate the perceived stress level of nursing students. Method Forward- and back-translation combined with expert assessment and cross-cultural adaptations were used to construct the Chinese version of the PSQ (C-PSQ). This research adopted a stratifi...

This study tested the psychometric properties of a Chinese version of the level of expressed emotion scale in Hong Kong Chinese patients with severe mental illness and their family caregivers. First, the semantic equivalence with the original English version and test-retest reliability at 2-week interval of the Chinese version was examined. After that, the reproducibility, construct validity, a...

Bu araştırma kültürel spor ahlakı bilinci kazanma amacına erişim düzeyini ölçen geçerli ve güvenilir bir ölçek geliştirmeyi hedeflemektedir. Sporun icra edildiği ortamlar bakıma bireylerin aldıkları ahlak eğitiminin uygulama alanıdır. Ayrıca spor, kötü alışkanlıklardan uzaklaşmasının yoludur. bakımdan sporla ilgilenen herkese hitap eden, Türk kültürüne özgü ölçeğin geliştirilmesini amaçlayan bu...

Bu çalışmanın amacı üniversite öğrencilerinin hakkaniyete dayalı eğitim algılarını ölçmeyi sağlayan bir ölçme aracı geliştirmektir. amaç doğrultusunda birinci aşamasında n=219 katılımcıdan oluşan açımlayıcı faktör analizi (AFA) yapılmıştır. AFA sonucunda ölçeğin toplam varyansın %52.10’unu açıklayan üç faktörlü yapıya sahip olduğu görülmüştür. faktörler sırasıyla “örgütsel kaynakların adil dağı...