background :fear of falling may be related to falling during stroke onset. the fall efficacy scale-international (fes-i) with excellent psychometric properties, is an instrument developed to assess patients’ concerns about fallings. the aim of this study was to determine validation of this scale in iranian patients with stroke.   methods : the “forward-backward” procedure was applied to transla...

background :traffic and transport is a substantial part of a range of economic, social and environmental factors distinguished to have impact on human health. this paper is a report on a preliminary section of a health impact assessment (hia) on urban traffic and transport initiatives, being conducted in sanandaj, iran. in this preliminary study, the psychometric properties of urban traffic rel...

ôbjective: type d personality is based on negative affectivity (nâ) and social inhibition (sï). the purpose of this study was to examine the reliability and validity of the persian version of 14-item type d personality scale (ds14). methods: the study included 191 normal participants and 176 patients with myocardial infarction (mï). they all filled out the persian version of ds14, containing 7-...

abstract aim and background: the zuckerman – kuhlman personality questionnaire is an instrument measuring personality traits. it is designed according to zuckerman’s alternative five factor personality model (ffm). the present research aimed at investigating the psychometric properties of a version of the zuckerman – kuhlman personality questionnaire which contains 50 items. method and material...

INTRODUCTION Tests of upper-extremity motor function used for people following a stroke have been described, but reliability and validity (psychometric properties) of measurements obtained with these tests have not been consistently established. This investigation was performed: (1) to review literature relative to upper-extremity motor function testing during rehabilitation following a stroke,...

The focus of the study is on the assessment of readability for prevailing America and Chinese English textbooks with the measurement software and systems. The result indicated college reading textbooks produced by Chinese publishers seemed to vary in level, with some texts above the reading ability of most college students. Then simplification strategies used to make Chinese EFL reading texts m...

INTRODUCTION Impairments in social functioning are associated with an array of adverse outcomes. Social skills measures are commonly used by health professionals to assess and plan the treatment of social skills difficulties. There is a need to comprehensively evaluate the quality of psychometric properties reported across these measures to guide assessment and treatment planning. OBJECTIVE T...

BACKGROUND Psychometric properties include validity, reliability and sensitivity to change. Establishing the psychometric properties of an instrument which measures three-dimensional human posture are essential prior to applying it in clinical practice or research. METHODS This paper reports the findings of a systematic literature review which aimed to 1) identify non-invasive three-dimension...

The aim was to critically appraise the methodological quality of studies and determine the psychometric qualities of Past-week and Usual-week Physical Activity Questionnaires (PAQs). Data sources were obtained from Pubmed and Embase. The eligibility criteria for selecting studies included: 1) at least one psychometric property of PAQs was examined in adults; 2) the PAQs either had a recall peri...

objective: since the study of driving behavior is of great  importance, we conducted this research to ‎investigate the psychometric properties and the factorial structure of the manchester driver ‎behavior questionnaire (dbq) in iranian drivers.‎ method: this cross – sectional research was performed on a sample of 800 drivers (of category d and ‎c) aged 23- 75 who were referred to imam sajjad c...