The need exists for a psychometrically sound measure of individuals' evaluative/affective body image states. In the present investigation with 174 college students, the six-item Body Image States Scale (BISS) was developed and found to be acceptably internally consistent and moderately stable. Evincing its convergent validity, the BISS was appropriately correlated with various trait measures of...

Objective: The aim of this study was to develop a valid and reliable measurement instrument determine the satisfaction rates inpatients. Methods: This designed as methodological research eight-step scale development principles developed by Devellis were followed. sample size calculated 360, taking into account 10 times number items in explanatory factor analysis. Exploratory confirmatory analys...

implementation of patient feedback is considered as a critical part of effective and efficient management in developed countries. the main objectives of this study were to assess patient satisfaction with the services provided in hospitals affiliated to tehran university of medical sciences, iran, identify areas of patient dissatisfaction, and find ways to improve patient satisfaction with hosp...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To examine the psychometric characteristics of the Brief Pain Inventory (BPI) for surgical patients with cancer and to compare the validity and reliability results between surgical and medical patients with cancer. DESIGN Descriptive and correlational. SETTING Inpatient units in two veterans hospitals. SAMPLE 388 patients with cancer (medical n = 229, surgical n = 159)....

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES A brief and psychometrically sound scale to measure patients' overall satisfaction with their primary care physicians would be useful in studies where a longer instrument is impractical. The purpose of this study was to develop and examine the psychometrics of a brief instrument to measure patients' overall satisfaction with their primary care physicians. METHODS Res...

ersity. P ed.2012. Abstract Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate the satisfaction of parents of paediatric patients with physicians’ communication skills. Methods: A survey among Saudi parents of 200 child patients was conducted in Madinah Maternity and Children Hospital, Almadinah Almunawwarah, Saudi Arabia, in July–September 2011. One of the parents of each child was interviewed o...

Introduction Crisis Resolution Home Treatment Teams (CRHTTs) offer short-term specialist psychiatric input to service users experiencing acute mental illness or crisis in the community. The South Lee CRHTT was setup 2015. Objectives: Primary objectives To evaluate impact of treatment given by a terms of: 1. Preventing hospital admission, 2. Impact on user’s symptoms and overall functioning 3. S...

conclusions following cabg, the most severity of pain was reported at surgical incision on time t2. pain began to decrease from the third day following the operation. age, sex and bmi along with operation-related factors such as duration of cbp or chest tube drainage may affect the pain pattern following cabg surgery. patients and methods the present study was conducted on 138 patients who unde...

objective: previous suicide interventional studies are controversial in their results. the present study compared brief intervention and contact (bic), with treatment as usual (tau) in their influence on the repetition of suicide attempts 6-month after the index suicide attempt. methods: adults who had attempted suicide were assigned two groups randomly: 311 in the tau and 321 in the bic. the b...

A problem that we face today with existing LAN-based business information systems (BISs) is making them accessible over the WEB. In this paper, we propose a methodology and adequate tools that automate the renewal of LAN-based BISs into WEB-based ones. The proposed methodology focuses in cases with lack of documentation related to the architecture of the LAN-based BISs. Such cases are very ofte...