Questionnaires are one of the foundations of psychometric measurement in clinical psychosomatics. We collected mobile computer-based assessments of psychometric data from more than 7000 patients between January 1995 and December 2002. Our experience has shown that this mobile approach enjoys a high acceptance among patients, is effective and two-thirds cheaper than conventional questionnaires u...

background: we aimed to develop and validate the persian version of short form mcgill pain questionnaire-2 (sf-mpq-2) in patients with knee osteoarthritis. methods: translation and back translation was performed using beaton’s guideline. after a consensus has achieved on the persian version of sf-mpq-2, it was administered to 30 patients with knee osteoarthritis in a pilot study. then, we enrol...

background and aim: parents’ evaluation of aural/oral performance of children (peach) questionnaire is used for children within any age group and any amount of hearing loss. the pur­pose of this study was translation, cultural adap­tation, determination of reliability and validity of the questionnaire, and assessment of its scores in children with cochlear implant versus normal group. methods: ...

This article examines the historical construction of depression over about a hundred years, employing social life methods as an explanatory framework. Specifically, it considers how emerging methodologies in measurement psychological constructs contributed to changes epistemological approaches mental illness and created conditions possibility for major shifts depression. While was once seen fea...

Citation: Saggino A, Balsamo M, Carlucci L, Cavalletti V, Sergi MR, da Fermo G, Dèttore D, Marsigli N, Petruccelli I, Pizzo S and Tommasi M (2018) Psychometric Properties of the Italian Version of the Young Schema Questionnaire L-3: Preliminary Results. Front. Psychol. 9:312. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00312 Psychometric Properties of the Italian Version of the Young Schema Questionnaire L-3: Prel...

The psychometric function, relating the subject's response to the physical stimulus, is fundamental to psychophysics. This paper examines various psychometric function topics, many inspired by this special symposium issue of Perception & Psychophysics: What are the relative merits of objective yes/no versus forced choice tasks (including threshold variance)? What are the relative merits of adap...

BACKGROUND The prevalence of unplanned pregnancy in Saudi Arabia has not been thoroughly investigated. OBJECTIVE To conduct a psychometric evaluation study of the Arabic version of the London Measure of Unplanned Pregnancy (LMUP). METHODS To evaluate the psychometric properties of the LMUP, we conducted a self-administered online survey among 796 ever-married Saudi women aged 20-49 years, a...