BACKGROUND Originally developed for educational use, the Leadership Practice Inventory (LPI) is used to measure leadership practices in nursing research. There is limited reporting of LPI psychometric properties when used to measure leadership practices of nurses. OBJECTIVE This study aimed to investigate psychometric properties of the LPI when used to measure the leadership practices of nurs...

Coronary heart disease (CHD) is associated with a substantial physical and mental burden. Recently, HeartQoL, a core Health-related-quality-of-life (HRQL) instrument in patients with CHD, was developed. HeartQoL consists of 14 items; 10 items focusing on physical HRQL and 4 items on emotional HRQL together providing a global scale. The aim of the current study was to assess the reliability and ...

Physicians report a number of barriers to obesity counseling, among them low perceived competence in the ability to counsel. While there is increasing recognition of the need for resident training on counseling, implementation requires residency programs to have the necessary curricula and tools to evaluate training effectiveness. This study’s objective was to describe the development and psych...

EF01/PC01 Plus Postage. *Anxiety; Elementary Secondary Education; *Factor Structure; Individual Characteristics; *Personality Tests; *Test Construction; *Test Validity *Childrens Manifest Anxiety Scale; Construct Validity; *What I Think and Feel The factor structure, and therety the underlying construct of the What I Think and Feel Test (RITE) was determined. The delireaticn of subscales of anx...

In recent years, there has been a renewed interest in measuring perceptions regarding different aspects of the medical educational environment. A reliable tool was developed for measuring perceptions of the educational environment as it relates to evidence-based medicine as part of a multicountry randomised controlled trial to evaluate the effectiveness of a clinically integrated evidence-based...

BACKGROUND Midwives are always involved in educational activities whenever novice midwives are present. Although various scales for measuring the educational competencies of nurses have already been developed in previous studies, a scale for the educational competencies particular to midwives has yet to be developed, or even no previous studies have revealed their functions as clinical educator...

background understanding environmental factors affecting the educational process and including them in educational planning will lead into increased outcome of education, mental health, reduced stress, and higher education performance. this study was conducted to investigate the impact of educational spaces coloring on learning and academic achievement of elementary school students in the acade...