BACKGROUND Rapid developments in intensive care medicine have made mechanical ventilation an essential method in the resuscitation and comprehensive treatment of critical care patients. This study aimed to develop and evaluate an appraisal form assessing the clinical effectiveness of adult invasive mechanical ventilation systems. METHODS An appraisal form was designed according to the effecti...

PURPOSE To develop a reliable magnetic resonance elastography (MRE)-based method for measuring regional brain stiffness. METHODS First, simulation studies were used to demonstrate how stiffness measurements can be biased by changes in brain morphometry, such as those due to atrophy. Adaptive postprocessing methods were created that significantly reduce the spatial extent of edge artifacts and...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to create a Spanish version of the Role Checklist that is content valid and reliable and to demonstrate usefulness of a translation method. METHOD A modified version of the translation method of Hachey, Jumoorty, and Mercier was used to translate the English Role Checklist into Spanish. The English and Spanish versions were then evaluated for test-retes...

Background: To date, there is no specific instrument to measure evidence-based practice (EBP) in Speech and Language Pathology (SLP). Therefore, it is essential to design a valid and reliable instrument in the EBP field for SLP. Aim: To develop a speech and language pathology evidence-based practice questionnaire (SLP-EBPQ) for the Iranian context and evaluate its psychometric properties. Metho...

The Child’s Challenging Behaviour Scale 2 (CCBS-2) is a scale designed for mothers of school-age children with disabilities between the ages 5 and 18, evaluates child's challenging behaviours. This study was carried out to conduct Turkish cross-cultural adaptation, validity reliability CCBS-2. One hundred thirty-eight disabled were included in this study. Scale-2 version (CCBS-2-TR) administere...

BACKGROUND The 'Reading the Mind in the Eyes' (Eyes) test is an advanced test of theory of mind. It is widely used to assess individual differences in social cognition and emotion recognition across different groups and cultures. The present study examined distributions of responses and scores on a Spanish version of the test in a non-clinical Spanish adult population, and assessed test-retest ...

introduction: measuring tools in each study must be evaluated themselves. the goal of present study was designing, validating, and determining the reliability of some scales, which are used for measuring concepts of behavior change theory/models. materials & methods: this study was a descriptive one in which, at first literature review and need assessment were done. then designed tools were val...

OBJECTIVE The authors sought to document, in adult and pediatric patient populations, the development, descriptive statistics,and test-retest reliability of cross-cutting symptom measures proposed for inclusion in DSM-5. METHOD Data were collected as part of the multisite DSM-5 Field Trials in large academic settings. There were seven sites focusing on adult patients and four sites focusing o...

The purpose of this investigation was to investigate (1) whether auditory deprivation effects are present in the poorer ears of adults with asymmetric sensorineural hearing impairment and (2) whether, if such effects are present, they can be reversed by amplification. Subjects were 16 males with asymmetric sensorineural hearing impairment, 8 of whom had never been aided, 6 of whom were aided mo...