background: in its constitution of 1948, who defined health as “a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease and infirmity” . in 1994, the agency for health care policy and research published clinical practice guidelines recommending providers to routinely evaluate patients’ hrqol (health related quality of life) and use their assessment to ...

BACKGROUND An HIV-specific version of the QUOTE questionnaire was developed to measure the quality of care of patients infected with HIV from the patients' perspective. The consistency and validity of the questionnaire was assessed. METHODS Focus group discussions were held to select aspects for inclusion in the questionnaire that are important to patients with HIV. Item and inter-item analys...

background: understanding the motives and reasons for drug treatment is very important. this study aimed to develop a psychometric evaluation to determine the reasons for addiction treatment among outpatients referred to addiction treatment clinics. methods: this cross-sectional validation study included five phases (i) item generation (ii) making an initial questionnaire (iii) content validity...

BACKGROUND Patient safety has been a priority in primary healthcare in the last years. The prevailing culture is seen as an important condition for patient safety in practice and several tools to measure patient safety culture have therefore been developed. Although Dutch primary care consists of different professions, such as general practice, dental care, dietetics, physiotherapy and midwifer...

Introduction: GHQ-28 is a screening instrument for evaluating psychiatric symptoms in vast groups of individuals. This study is the first attempt to examine the factor structure of the GHQ-28 in Iranian people. Methods: Three hundred and thirty six inpatients and outpatients who suffered from skin disease referred to Razi hospital in Tehran fully completed the GHQ-28 questionnaire. Factor struc...

The Penn State Worry Questionnaire (PSWQ) was originally designed as a unifactorial measure of pathological trait worry. However, recent studies supported a two-factor solution with positively worded items loading on the first factor and reverse-scored items loading on a second factor. The current study compared this two-factor model to a negative wording method factor solution among college st...

abstract background & aim: evaluation and measurement of mother’s satisfaction from postpartum cares is so important in the quality of health care indexes. the purpose of this study was to examine the psychometric properties of the postpartum satisfaction nursing care questionnaire (jpsnq). material & methods: this study was a methodological research. at the first, the english version of questi...

Introduction: Human resources impose a vast expense on health organizations. Therefore, improvement of the productivity of human resources is of considerable concern to executive managers of every country. Methods: In the present study, first, the knowledge workers’ productivity assessment questionnaire was localized. Then, the knowledge workers of the ce...