Introduction Diagnosing dementia in people with severe/profound intellectual (and multiple) disabilities (SPI(M)D) is complex. Whereas existing screening instruments as a whole are unsuitable for this population, number of individual items may apply. Therefore, study aimed to identify applicable instruments.Methods Informant interviews about 40 SPI(M)D were conducted the Dementia Scale Down Syn...

Balance confidence, measured using the Activity-Specific Balance Confidence Scale (ABC-16), can affect quality of life in individuals with Parkinson's disease (PD). Two abbreviated 6-item versions of the ABC-16 have been previously derived to measure balance confidence in an expedited fashion. This study aimed to validate these abbreviated versions and to determine their correlations with measu...

ABSTRACT The inter-rater/test–retest reliability and construct validity of a palliative care needs assessment tool in interstitial lung disease (NAT:PD-ILD) were tested using NAT:PDILD-guided video-recorded consultations, and NAT:PD-ILD-guided consultations, and patient and carer-report outcomes (St George’s Respiratory Questionnaire (SGRQ)ILD, Carer Strain Index (CSI)/Carer Support Needs Asses...

Background: The 28-item General Health Questionnaire (GHQ) is constructed on the basis of a principal components analysis of the GHQ-60 (28 items selected and grouped under four subscales). When used on a Spanish population, a translation of the GHQ-28 developed for an English population logically yields worse predictive values. Methods: Data from a community study conducted in a town near Madr...

OBJECTIVE To develop a generic scale for assessing attitudes towards genetic testing and to psychometrically assess these attitudes in the context of BRCA1/2 among a sample of French general practitioners, breast specialists and gyneco-obstetricians. STUDY DESIGN AND SETTING Nested within the questionnaire developed for the European InCRisC (International Cancer Risk Communication Study) proj...

OBJECTIVE To assess parents' perspectives of their home environments to establish the validity of scores from the Behavior and Attitudes Questionnaire for Healthy Habits (BAQ-HH). DESIGN In the present descriptive study, we surveyed a cross-sectional sample of parents of pre-school children. Questionnaire items developed in an iterative process with community-based programming addressed paren...

Initially candidate survey items were compiled from existing literature and presented on a seven-point Likert scale. Then the survey items were filtered through several iterations of pretests. First, these items were examined by a focus group. This group consisted of three colleagues who are knowledgeable about the research subject as well as the measurement theory, and five senior IT managers ...