BACKGROUND The Norwegian version of the Kidscreen-27, a measure of generic health-related quality of life, has not yet been validated. Thus, the aim of this study was to investigate the reliability and validity of the Norwegian Kidscreen-27, in 10 year-old children. METHODS The Kidscreen-27 consists of five domains and was validated in a cross-sectional study of 1085 school children (52.5 % b...

BACKGROUND Both prognoses and real demographic trends in developed countries point to the increasing proportion in the population of people above 65 years of age. One of important themes of care for seniors is the assessment of their quality of life. To evaluate the quality of life of seniors three types of tools can be used: general generic tools; generic tools used for the age group of elderl...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to translate and validate the psychometric properties of the Quality of Life Kindl questionnaire. MATERIALS & METHODS Parents of 4-7 yr-old healthy and ill children referred to Mofid Children Hospital in Tehran in 2013, Iran were sampled randomly in two groups each of which 130 people. After translation, the questionnaie's validity and reliability was evalu...

BACKGROUND The practice environment pivotal role in patients and nurses better outcomes is evident. Practice Environment Scale of Nursing Work Index (PES-NWI) is widely utilized to assess nursing work environments. The present study was conducted to demonstrate the validity and reliability of the Persian version of PES-NWI. MATERIALS AND METHODS The instrument was translated and its psychomet...

BACKGROUND Since there is no disease-specific instrument for measuring quality-of-life (QOL) in Ostomy patients in Persian language. AIM This study was designed to translate and evaluate the validity and reliability of City of Hope-quality of life-Ostomy questionnaire (COH-QOL-Ostomy questionnaire). SUBJECTS AND METHODS This study was designed as cross-sectional study. Reliability of the su...

This supplemental material provides additional matching experiments on the NIST SDB14 database (see Section 3.1 in [1]). The NIST SDB14 database [2] contains rolled impressions scanned with a resolution of 500ppi from inked fingerprint cards. Compared with the optical-scanned fingerprints, the ink-rolled impressions are subject to more noise sources such as smearing ink and factitious marks. Th...