background and objectives: patient safety culture is increasingly recognized as an essential driver of patient safety. to establish patient safety culture, firstly the current status of the construct should be assessed. valid assessment of patient safety culture is contingent on the availability of appropriate measurement tools. hospital survey on patient safety culture (hsops) developed by the...

Operation efficiency is critical for the smooth running and sustainability of water utilities. Employee engagement integral to operational non-profit organizations in Kenya, including service sector. Studies show that when employees are appropriately engaged, managed monitored, will avoid unnecessary losses costs, achieving efficiency. This research scrutinized effect employee on providers Meru...

Background: As a primary phase of a Health Impact Assessment (HIA) on the Iranian Targeted Subsidy Plan (TSP), this study was conducted to assess the psychometric properties of a newly developed quantitative Health Policy Impact Assessment Tool (HEPIAT).    Methods: In 2014, multistage cluster sampling was employed to recruit 509 key informants in Sanandaj, Iran, to participate in th...

background: our hearing ability in space is critical for hearing speech in noisy environment and localization. the spatial hearing questionnaire (shq) has been devised to focus only on spatial haring tasks (e.g., lateralization, distance detection and binaural detection). the aim of the present study was to determine the reliability and validity of the persian translation of the shq (spatial he...

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...

background and objectives: considering the importance of medical education quality in achieving a healthycommunity, there is a need for the development of valid and reliable tools for efficient measurement of quality of medical education services. sevqual is a popular services quality measuring framework used in assessment of quality in various service sectors. the purpose of this study was to ...

Introduction. The system of assessment of students' performance needs to comprise certain psychometric characteristics, including in particular reliability and validity, so that it can be a highly objective source of knowledge of students' learning outcomes. Aim. Analysis of reliability and validity of the performance assessment system for Midwifery students who started a Bachelor's degree prog...

deregulation policy has caused some changes in the concepts of power systems reliability assessment and enhancement. in this paper, generation reliability is considered, and a method for its assessment using intelligent systems is proposed. also, because of power market and generators’ forced outages stochastic behavior, monte carlo simulation is used for reliability evaluation. generation r...

background: auditory rehabilitation isone of the important tasks of speech-language pathologists. so, it is necessary to know auditory behaviors in order to make some decisions about the children with hearing loss such as determining the effectiveness of the current rehabilitation programs and/or devices. the auditory behavior in everyday life (abel) questionnaire is a valid and reliable assess...