PURPOSE Public health professionals hypothesize that when community environments provide suitable walking and bicycling conditions, community members will be more active. Measurement indicators and assessment instruments are needed to evaluate suitability. This study determined the reliability and validity of two instruments to assess the suitability of sidewalks for walking and roads for bicyc...

the purpose of this study was to explore the impacts of: knowledge management, senior managers, staff, technology, consensus, service customization, and integration, as the factors effecting customer relationship management (crm) implementation in parsian international hotels. in this study the population was composed of parsian hotels managers and experts. due to their small number (n=53), cen...

conclusions results provided initial evidence that the idoba is a valid and reliable instrument for measuring determinants of obesity-related behaviors in iranian adolescents, indicating that the questionnaire can be used in future weight management programs for tehranian adolescents. results all items were perceived as relevant and comprehendible by adolescents. content validity was confirmed ...

BACKGROUND Parental feeding practices may play a key role in dietary habits and nutritional status of adolescents, but research from adolescents' point of view on this topic is scarce. OBJECTIVE To adapt and validate an instrument of parental feeding practices as perceived by adolescents in a Brazilian setting. METHODS The Comprehensive Feeding Practices Questionnaire was translated into Po...

BACKGROUND Different authors suggest that attitude is a mediator in behavior change, so it is a predictor of behavior practice. The main of this study was to design and to validate two scales for measure adolescent attitude toward healthy eating and adolescent attitude toward healthy physical activity. METHODS Scales were design based on a literature review. After, they were validated using a...

background and aim: with regard to the shortage of proper materials in persian for the evaluation of speech perception in children, this study aimed to develop the persian version of the bkb sentence test, and determine its content validity in normal persian speaking children aged 6-12 years. methods: this study was an applied research. the study procedure comprised sentence construction, deter...

the aim of this study was to examine the relationship between islamic work ethic and job satisfaction, organizational commitment and desertion in iran ministry of sport and youth experts. the correlation-descriptive method was used in this study which was conducted as a field. the statistic populations consisted of 290 ministry of sport and youth experts. 165 subjects were selected as the sampl...

ABSTRACT Objectives: to validate the content and usability of Retire with Health web software. Methods: a methodological study. The validation was carried out by seven experts in aging subject, using an instrument that evaluated objectives, contents, relevance, environment Usability validated software development, referring ergonomics, functionality, usability, efficiency. data were submitted s...

OBJECTIVE To construct and validate a nursing care protocol in anesthesia. METHOD methodological study of face and content validation, judging clarity, relevance, pertinence and comprehensiveness of a care protocol, elaborated from the integrative review of previous literature and based on the conceptual model of assistance perioperative nursing of Castellanos and Jouclas. The protocol was ev...