conclusions this study has provided some preliminary evidence of the reliability and validity of the persian version of rcas when used with family caregivers of older adults with dementia. background caregivers’ self-assessments of the care they provide are the main vehicles that help explore their experiences and are thought to have a major role in care outcomes. the rising number of people wi...

how to cite this article: rojhani shirazi m, tonekaboni sh, azargashb e, derakhshannia m, aghdasta e. exploring the psychometric properties of the farsi version of quality of life kindl questionnaire for 4-7 year-old children in iran. iran j child neurol. spring 2016; 10(2):42-52. abstract objective the aim of this study was to translate and validate the psychometric properties of the quality o...

background: breaking bad news to cancer patients is one of the important responsibilities in the oncology setting. the purpose of this study is develop and validate a new theoretically based tool for measurement of attitude and practice of physicians toward breaking bad news. methods: the psychometric properties of the scale were established by following the guidelines of clark and watson. in t...

BACKGROUND Recently, the Expanded Prostate Cancer Index Composite 26-item version (EPIC-26) was recommended for the assessment of adverse effects after the treatment of prostate cancer without clear reasons. This decision encouraged us to review the questionnaire development from the UCLA Prostate Cancer Index (UCLA-PCI) to the EPIC-16 CP with a focus on psychometric properties. We also reviewe...

BACKGROUND Since the mid eighties, responsiveness is considered to be a separate property of health status questionnaires distinct from reliability and validity. The aim of the study was to assess the strength of the relationship between internal consistency reliability, referring to an instrument's sensitivity to differences in health status among subjects at one point in time, and responsiven...

Green [J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 87, 2662-2674 (1990)] suggested an efficient, maximum-likelihood-based approach for adaptively estimating thresholds. Such procedures determine the signal strength on each trial by first identifying the most likely psychometric functions among the pre-proposed alternatives based on responses from previous trials, and then finding the signal strength at the "sweet poin...

The psychometric properties and factor structure of the 12 item General Health Questionnaire used in a sample of women of ethnic Indian origin living in the United Kingdom is described. The Cronbach's alpha was 0.89 and the split half reliability was 0.91. Principal component analysis revealed 2 significant components which accounted for 75.2% of variance. The psychometric properties and factor...

Objectives. To (1) describe participation in decision-making as a systems-level property of complex adaptive systems and (2) present empirical evidence of reliability and validity of a corresponding measure. Method. Study 1 was a mail survey of a single respondent (administrators or directors of nursing) in each of 197 nursing homes. Study 2 was a field study using random, proportionally strati...

right of private property is of the most important individual rights of society that lies in the heart of private law. in islamic law protection of property as one of the five goals of fighhe, that is, protection of sagacity, religion, generation and self, is to be stipulated. based on article 140 of civil code the process of property acquisition is restricted to four cases. on the other hand, ...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this review was to evaluate the conceptual suitability, applicability and psychometric properties of scores used internationally to measure adherence to the Mediterranean diet (MD). DESIGN This was a systematic review to identify original articles that examined some aspects of the conceptual suitability, applicability or psychometric properties of the MD adherence score. ...