OBJECTIVES To evaluate the test-retest reliability, the concurrent criterion validity, and the construct validity of prehospital, emergency medical service (EMS) case finding for depression and cognitive impairment in older adults. DESIGN Cross-sectional study. SETTING Prehospital EMS system and hospital emergency department. PARTICIPANTS EMS providers and community-dwelling older adult (...

OBJECTIVES Measurement of treatment satisfaction in diabetes is important as it has been shown to be associated with positive outcomes, reduced disease cost and better health. The aim of this study was to assess the construct validity and internal consistency reliability of the Greek version of the Diabetes Treatment Satisfaction Questionnaire (DTSQ). METHODS A sample of type II diabetes pati...

Objective: Limited research has examined the psychometric properties of death depression scales in Persian populations with cardiac disease despite the need for valid assessment tools for evaluating depressive symptoms in patients with life-limiting chronic conditions. The present study aimed at evaluating the reliability and validity of the Persian Version of Death Depression Scale - Revised (...

this study aimed to design a questionnaire including characteristics of successful iranian efl teachers and substantiate its construct validity. based on the guidelines laid down by efl professors (n=5), teachers (n=11), learners (n=46), and suwandee's (1995) questionnaire about the characteristics of effective language teachers, a questionnaire (likert scale) consisting of 47 items, was d...

the aim of this paper is to analyze the impact of modern political marketing tools on national cohesion. in this study, researchers sought to study the concept of these variables in case of recognizing the relationship between them. this study has been in done in 6th region of tehran. for collecting data, a survey method has been used which its construct and content reliabilities were tested. i...

  Background: Outstanding leadership is one of the important and vital concepts in management and educational leadership debates especially in educational organizations such as universities. Thus, effective educational leadership and adopting an appropriate tool to assess leadership in education are crucial in these institutions. The present study was conducted to develop an instrument for meas...

Background: Osteoporosis knowledge test is a comprehensive questionnaire that evaluates risk factors, nutrition and exercise recommendations, as well as general subjects such as bone evolution, diagnosis, and osteoporosis treatment. The aim of this study was to determine the psychometric characteristics of the revised version of osteoporosis knowledge test (OKT) in Iranian adolescent population...