PURPOSE Public health professionals hypothesize that when community environments provide suitable walking and bicycling conditions, community members will be more active. Measurement indicators and assessment instruments are needed to evaluate suitability. This study determined the reliability and validity of two instruments to assess the suitability of sidewalks for walking and roads for bicyc...

This paper evaluates 2 adjustments to common scoring approaches for situational judgment tests (SJTs). These adjustments can result in substantial improvements to item validity, reductions in mean racial differences, and resistance to coaching designed to improve scores. The first adjustment, applicable to SJTs that use Likert scales, controls for elevation and scatter (Cronbach & Gleser, 1953)...

Surgical anxiety creates psychological and physiological stress, causes complications in surgical procedures, and prolongs recovery. Relaxation of patients in postoperative intensive care units can moderate patient vital signs, reduce discomfort, and shorten length of stay. This study explores the use of virtual reality cybertherapy to reduce postoperative distress in patients that have recentl...

A two-day CPD (continuous professional development) course teaching integrated back stability (IBS) to post-graduate physiotherapists, sports therapists, and massage therapists was evaluated using a descriptive (mixed methods) design. An eight-question, 5-point Likert scale questionnaire and six person focus group were used. The course was evaluated over a five-year period and questionnaires we...

One of the modern pillars of collaborative filtering and recommender systems is collection and exploitation of ratings from users. Likert scale is a psychometric quantifier of ratings popular among the electronic commerce sites. In this paper, we consider the tasks of collecting Likert scale ratings of items and of finding the n-k best-rated items, i.e., the n items that are most likely to be t...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the diagnostic efficacy of transrectal ultrasonography (US) bi¬opsy with imaging fusion using multiparametric (mp) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in patients with suspicion of prostate cancer (PCa), with an emphasis on clini¬cally significant tumors according to histological criteria. MATERIALS AND METHODS A total of 189 consecutive US/MRI fusion biopsies were per¬form...

A questionnaire is a basic tool for collecting information in survey research. Often, these questions are measured using Likert scale. With multiple items on the same broad object, codes could be summed or averaged to give an indication of each respondent’s overall positive negative orientation towards that object. This basis scales. Aggregation methods have been widely used different research ...

OBJECTIVE To determine the efficacy of ceramic impregnated gloves in the treatment of Raynaud's syndrome. DESIGN Double-blind, placebo-controlled study. SETTING Teaching hospital outpatient clinic. PARTICIPANTS Ninety-three patients meeting the "Pal" criteria for Raynaud's syndrome. INTERVENTIONS Treatment period of three months with use of ceramic-impregnated gloves. MAIN OUTCOME MEA...