INTRODUCTION Venom allergy in children, as a potentially life-threatening disease, may have a considerable impact on the quality of life of the parents of the affected patients. AIM To present development of the quality of life scale for such parents. MATERIAL AND METHODS The study sample included 70 parents of children with a history of insect sting reaction, referred for consultations to ...

OBJECTIVE To examine internal construct validity of the Neurobehavioral Functioning Inventory (NFI) by applying Rasch analysis. SETTING An outpatient rehabilitation program trial in New Zealand employing a goal-setting intervention in people with traumatic brain injury (TBI). PARTICIPANTS One hundred eight people (mean age = 46 years; 73% male) between 6 months and 5 years post-TBI. DESIG...

b Background: For decades, enhancing staff nurse decisional involvement in matters of nursing practice and patient care has been identified as a long-term strategy to improve the quality of the nursing work environment and the safety and quality of patient care. b Objective: To describe psychometric assessments of the Decisional Involvement Scale (DIS), a diagnostic and evaluative measure of nu...

INTRODUCTION In Australia, there is little empirical research of the racial identity of Indigenous children and youth as the majority of the current literature focuses on adults. Furthermore, there are no instruments developed with cultural appropriateness when exploring the identity and self-esteem of the Australian Aboriginal population, especially children. The IRISE_C (Racial Identity and S...

background: in spite of the increased range of inactivity and obesity among iranian adults, insufficient research has been done on environmental factors influencing physical activity. as a result adapting a subjective (self-report) measurement tool for assessment of physical environment in iran is critical. accordingly, in this study neighborhood environment walkability scale (news) was adapted...

OBJECTIVE Since the acquiescence effect can distort assessments, it is important to test techniques to quantify this effect. METHODS The tendency of acquiescence is tested by means of a questionnaire. 2037 representatively selected subjects filled in the Multidimensional Fatigue Inventory (MFI-20), which consists of five subscales with positively and negatively formulated items. For each subj...

AIMS To examine the dimensionality, internal consistency, and construct validity of a new physical workload questionnaire in employees with musculoskeletal complaints. METHODS Factor analysis was applied to the responses in three study populations with musculoskeletal disorders (n = 406, 300, and 557) on 26 items related to physical workload. The internal consistency of the resulting subscale...

background with the integration of the evaluation of patient satisfaction in the overall assessment of healthcare services, authorities can be assured about the alignment of these services with patient needs and the suitability of care provided at the local level. objectives this study was conducted in 2013 in zahedan, iran, in order to assess the psychometric properties of the iranian version ...

background in today’s complex healthcare environments, the traditional teaching strategies and learning models are unable to prepare learners to confront with rapid changes. some education scholars believe that the teaching strategies based on socioculturally theory are more responsible and efficient. objectives the present study was conducted to investigate socio-culturally-based teaching stra...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the acceptability, reliability, validity and responsiveness of the Turkish version of Western Ontario and McMaster Universities (WOMAC) osteoarthritis (OA) index in physiotherapy outpatient practice in Turkey. METHOD Data were obtained from 72 patients with OA of the knee. They were asked to answer two disease-specific questionnaires (WOMAC LK 3.1 and Lequesne-Algofuncti...