AIMS AND OBJECTIVES The aim was to develop a questionnaire for use by practitioners working in stroke care to measure self-efficacy judgements in specific domains of functioning relevant to individuals following stroke. BACKGROUND The prevalence of stroke is set to rise across the developed world especially amongst the elderly population. Recovery and adjustment in the longer term can be affe...

OBJECTIVE The Empathy Quotient (EQ) is a self-reported test developed by Baron-Cohen et al. (2004) to measure the cognitive and affective aspects of empathy. The purpose of this study was to develop a Korean version of EQ and to establish its psychometric properties based on a representative Korean sample. METHODS The Korean version of EQ and its correspondence with another popular measure of...

BACKGROUND Advances in perinatal and neonatal care have substantially improved the survival of at-risk infants over the past two decades. OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to assess the reliability and validity of the Bayley Scales of infant and toddler developmental Screening test in Persian-speaking children. METHODS This was a cross-sectional prospective study of 403 children aged...

BACKGROUND ConQoL questionnaire assesses health related quality of life among children with congenital heart diseases. It has a version for children aged 8 to 11 years and another for children aged 12 to 16 years. AIM To validate ConQol questionnaire for Chilean children with a congenital heart disease. MATERIAL AND METHODS Using a multicentric cross sectional design, 334 children from four...

The Edge, appropriate for exploring contemporary military operations raises issues regarding comparative performance to traditional hierarchal configurations. Well-controlled experimental design offers insight about the internal workings of the Edge organization with high levels of reliability and internal validity. Leweling and Nissen (2007) reported results of an extension to a series of labo...

Recall bias represents a major threat to the internal validity of studies using self-reported data. It arises with the tendency of subjects to report past events in a manner that is different between the two study groups. This pattern of recall errors can lead to differential misclassification of the related variable among study subjects with a subsequent distortion of measure of association in...

UNLABELLED Aims/Introduction:  The objective of this study was to translate and validate an Iranian version of the Diabetes Quality of Life (DQOL) questionnaire in an Iranian population of males and females with a diagnosis of type 2 diabetes. MATERIALS AND METHODS   A total of 503 patients with type 2 diabetes were recruited from nine diabetes clinics across several Iranian cities. A standar...

The authors conducted 4 studies investigating the reliability and validity of the Eating Disorder Diagnostic Scale (HDDS; E. Stice, C. F. Telch, & S. L. Rizvi, 2000), a brief self-report measure for diagnosing anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge eating disorder. Study 1 found that the HDDS showed criterion validity with interview-based diagnoses, convergent validity with risk factors f...

OBJECTIVE The aim of the present study was to develop, and assess the validity and reliability of the Buss-Perry Aggression Questionnaire (BAQ)-Turkish Version. METHODS The BAQ was translated from English to Turkish by a bilingual individual, and then independently translated back to English by another bilingual individual. The study included 220 students from 2 universities. In order to dete...

PURPOSE OF THE STUDY To explore short-form versions of World Health Organization Quality of Life (WHOQOL-OLD) with acceptable psychometric properties, which was developed for older adults by the WHOQOL research group, containing 24 items initially. DESIGN AND METHODS We randomly sampled two-thirds of respondents from the data of WHOQOL-OLD field study (N = 5,566), as a developmental sample, a...