Because the two main models and instruments used to evaluate psychosocial factors at work were developed and applied primarily in developed countries, there are still questions about their properties in less economically developed countries. In this study, a Spanish version of the Job Content Questionnaire (JCQ) was tested in Colombia. Cross-sectional studies, with self-administered surveys, we...

The authors are preparing for cross-cultural studies of immunosuppressive behaviors and emotions, commonly called "Type C," in both healthy persons and in patients with cancer. To this end, validity and reliability of a Type C Personality Inventory were assessed in a sample of 128 healthy volunteers. Reliability of the instrument was supported by moderate to high Cronbach alpha coefficients. Ac...

PURPOSE to generate and validate a proper questionnaire to evaluate the sexual function in post-menopause women. METHODS 251 women, within 2 to 15 years postmenopause, were included in the study. Questionnaire's reproductibility/reliability was evaluated by Pearson, intraclass and Lin's correlation coefficients. The internal consistance was examined by the Cronbach's alpha coefficient. Classi...

Introduction: The current study aims to measure the validity, reliability, and psychometric properties of the Persian translation of the Video Gaming Addiction Test (VAT). Materials and Methods: A total of 280 young men (14-20 years old) (mean ± SD age: 17.22 ± 1.8 years), including excessive gamers and normal subjects, entered the study. They answered VAT, Visual Analog Scale (VAS), and Conne...

these days knowledge and information play a vital role in promoting of productivity and sustainability. the main purpose of this descriptive– survey research was to analysis information seeking behavior of carp farmers in sangar’s area of rasht county. information seeking behavior of farmers including definition process and gathering information of usage technology, evaluation, information savi...

BACKGROUND A need for improved patient safety, quality of care, and accountability has prompted the development of competency-based educational processes. Assessment tools related to bronchoscopy training, however, have not yet been developed or validated. PURPOSES To determine whether 25 multiple-choice questions (MCQs) extracted from the free, Web-based Essential Bronchoscopist (EB) learnin...

The aim of this study is to develop a Portuguese version of the OHIP-49 to be used in Brazil. The adopted methodology involves translation, back-translation, revision of the first version, cultural adaptation and evaluation of its measurement properties. The questionnaire was administered in interviews with 60 year-old and older Brazilian people. The Kendall-tau correlation coefficient was used...

The purpose of this study was to determine the effect principal's leadership and teacher's work motivation, either individually or jointly on employee performance. research conducted in SDN Dumai Barat sub-district, City with subjects being teachers City, method used a survey correlation technique, sample at sub-district West City. totaling 150. instrument collect data principals' leadership, m...

BACKGROUND Hemodialysis patients have a high physical and psychosocial symptom burden. There is no valid and reliable tool for assessing symptoms of hemodialysis patients in Iran. OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to determine psychometric properties of the Persian version of the dialysis symptom index (DSI). PATIENTS AND METHODS The forward-backward procedure was applied to translate th...