AIM The purpose of this study was to develop an instrument with rigorous psychometric properties to comprehensively measure nursing student satisfaction and to identify areas for nursing program enhancement. BACKGROUND Measures of program quality are frequently designed to demonstrate to professional groups that the educational program will prepare graduates for success in a rapidly changing ...

Psychometrically qualified usability evaluation instruments offer many advantages to the usability practitioner. Advantages include objectivity, replicability, quantification, economy, communication, and scientific generalization. It is important that instruments used in usability evaluation have shown acceptable estimates of reliability, validity, adaptability and practicality. This paper comp...

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...

Objective To analyze the psychometric indices of Anatomy question items in modular system assessment. Methods A quantitative study was done to determine the quality of MCQs and to analyze the performance of 1st year 100 MBBS students. Each module covers different subjects of MBBS curriculum but psychometric analysis was done on the subject of Anatomy only. The assessment results of 3 modules ...

The Community Assessment of Psychic Experiences (CAPE) has been used extensively as a measurement for psychosis proneness in clinical and research settings. However, no prior review and meta-analysis have comprehensively examined psychometric properties (reliability and validity) of CAPE scores across different studies. To study CAPE's internal reliability--ie, how well scale items correlate wi...

BACKGROUND Patient safety culture is measured using a range of survey tools. Many provide limited data on psychometric properties and few report findings outside of the US healthcare context. This study reports an assessment of the psychometric properties and suitability of the American Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture for use within the UK. METHODS A questionnaire survey of three ho...

background self-efficacy is an important predicator of coping with stress. objectives this study aimed to determine the psychometric characteristics of the coping self-efficacy (cse) scale among hiv-infected iranian patients. patients and methods psychometric properties of the cse scale were examined by using a cross-sectional study design. one hundred and twenty hiv-infected iranian patients t...

background and aim : self-administered questionnaires are clinically important to document how tinnitus affects the daily life of patients. in this regard, there is a need to have an alternative questionnaire that covers relevant aspects of tinnitus and related symptoms. the present study aimed to develop and validate a new tinnitus questionnaire known as tinnitus handicap que­stionnaire or bor...

BACKGROUND Early childhood development is a multifaceted construct encompassing physical, social, emotional and intellectual competencies. The Early Development Instrument (EDI) is a population-level measure of five domains of early childhood development on which extensive psychometric testing has been conducted using traditional methods. This study builds on previous psychometric analysis by p...