Methods An observational cross-sectional study was carried out to compare patients’ satisfaction after 4-6 months (group A) or 9-12 months (group B) of SLIT treatment by the use of a validated Spanish satisfaction questionnaire (ESPIA) consisting of 16 items on a 5-point Likert scale (scale 16-80, higher score indicating more satisfaction). Secondary objectives were to investigate relation betw...

BACKGROUND The BBC Subjective Well-being scale (BBC-SWB) is a recently developed questionnaire designed to measure people's subjective experiences across the wide breadth of domains commonly included in definitions of well-being. Although it has previously been shown to be a reliable and valid measure of subjective well-being in the general population with good psychometric properties, a limita...

INTRODUCTION The application of organizational ethics in hospitals is one of the novel ways to improve medical ethics. Nowadays achieving efficient and sufficient ethical hospital indicators seems to be inevitable. In this connection, the present study aims to determine the best indicators in hospital accreditation. METHODS 69 indicators in 11 fields to evaluate hospital ethics were achieved ...

BACKGROUND Perception-based Likert scale are commonly used to assess household food insecurity. The aim of this study was to evaluate the psychometric properties and external construct validity of the 9-item Food Access Survey Tool (FAST) in a population-based randomized controlled trial. METHODS Participating women (n = 11,992) were asked to recall the frequencies of nine food insecurity exp...

OBJECTIVE To study the efficacy and safety of single intra-articular injection of 6-mL hylan G-F 20 in Chinese patients with symptomatic knee osteoarthritis. DESIGN Prospective case series. SETTING Six government hospitals in Hong Kong. PATIENTS Patients with primary knee osteoarthritis were recruited from six government hospitals from 1 October 2010 to 31 May 2012. All patients received ...

The purpose of this study is to develop a scale that reveals factors adversely affecting the university preparatory class students’ motivation for the English language and English language classes. The sample included 454 student participants. The researchers used a 6-point Likert-type scale with 50 items to collect the research data. The results of the exploratory factor analysis indicated tha...

the aim of this study was to identify the relationship between sport motivation and athletic burnout in male soccer players participating in the 12th universiade in iran. the research method was descriptive/correlational method. 160 players who were members of soccer teams of universities completed these 2 questionnaires: 1- sport motivation scale (sms) by pelletier et al. (1995) with 24 items ...

Methods The study design was a survey, utilizing a phone questionnaire. 70 consecutively presenting patients undergoing 15 day surgery procedures in an Irish teaching hospital were invited to participate. Data collection was completed between June and July 2011. The survey evaluated 57 aspects of the DS process. Patients were asked to rate their level of satisfaction using a 5-point LIKERT scal...

This article presents the results of a study about the views of mathematics held by54 primary and 42 secondary prospective teachers. Data were collected through aquestionnaire that included two open questions as well as a series of items to beassessed on a Likert scale. We compare the results obtained by these two means. Wealso compare the results concerning the primary student ...

A study was conducted to assess clinical performance of registered nurses who had recently completed the new comprehensive basic nursing course. This regional project was undertaken because of controversy surrounding clinical competence of the graduates/diplomates of the new regulation course. Senior qualified nurses gave their views according to Likert Scale statements and open-ended questions...