Asthma is a chronic disease, which affects patients' daily lives. The goal of this study was the development of a disease-specific scale to evaluate quality of life in asthmatic patients in France: The Asthma Impact Record Index (AIR Index). The study was conducted with the participation of 486 asthmatic patients using the following steps: 1) selection of dichotomous items; 2) reduction of the ...

PURPOSE "Medication administration hassles" are the minor daily irritants that family caregivers experience when they assist a dependent family member with medication regimens. This study was designed to develop and test a multidimensional measure of the hassles in family caregiver medication administration. DESIGN AND METHOD The authors employed a multiphase process (caregiver focus groups, ...

Purpose: This study was performed in order to characterize the psychometric properties of the National Eye Institute visual functioning questionnaire in Iranians. Methods: After forward and backward translation, examination of the translation quality and a pilot test, 80 patients with various chronic ophthalmic diseases and 30 healthy individuals completed the questionnaire. Internal consistenc...

background:considering the limitation of reports on the translation of research questionnaires, the present study aims to clarify the necessity of correctly conducting the translation process. therefore, it deals with describing the process and the required stages for the cultural adaptation of research instruments in an operational style. consequently, it may provide a platform for researchers...

Purpose: This study was performed in order to characterize the psychometric properties of the National Eye Institute visual functioning questionnaire in Iranians. Methods: After forward and backward translation, examination of the translation quality and a pilot test, 80 patients with various chronic ophthalmic diseases and 30 healthy individuals completed the questionnaire. Internal consistenc...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this investigation was to evaluate the factor structure and the internal consistency of the Eating Disorder Examination-Questionnaire (EDE-Q). METHOD The EDE-Q was administered to 203 women with bulimic symptoms, who were recruited from five Midwestern communities. RESULTS Acceptable levels of internal consistency were observed for the EDE-Q total score (alpha = .90...

I-group Presence Questionnaire (IPQ), which is used to evaluate the mediated experience of presence -especially for virtual reality applications- originally developed in German and translated several other languages. However, there not any psychometric study these translations including English version, except Portuguese Persian translations. We evaluated translation IPQ with 36 participants th...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To develop and test the Oncology Patients' Perceptions of the Quality of Nursing Care Scale (OPPQNCS). STUDY DESIGN Development and psychometric testing of a scale to measure perceptions of patients with cancer of quality of nursing care. SETTING AND SAMPLE Hematology-oncology service of a comprehensive center in a New England tertiary medical center. The sample consisted...