UNLABELLED The operational definition of relational continuity is "a therapeutic relationship between a patient and one or more providers that spans various healthcare events and results in accumulated knowledge of the patient and care consistent with the patient's needs." OBJECTIVE To examine how well relational continuity is measured in validated instruments that evaluate primary healthcare...

AIMS To design and conduct preliminary validation of a measure of hypoglycaemia awareness and problematic hypoglycaemia, the Hypoglycaemia Awareness Questionnaire. METHODS Exploratory and cognitive debriefing interviews were conducted with 17 adults (nine of whom were women) with Type 1 diabetes (mean ± sd age 48 ± 10 years). Questionnaire items were modified in consultation with diabetologis...

BACKGROUND The Sense of Competence Questionnaire (SCQ) was originally developed for informal caregivers of patients with diagnosed dementia. In order to study the validity and usefulness of the SCQ when applied to informal caregivers of older adults with dementia symptoms (i.e. cognitive impairment, pre-diagnostic dementia or dementia in its early stages), we investigated the construct validity...

This study is aimed at making a conceptual analysis of the autopoietic approach, which emphasizes organizational change based on understanding creating itself by preserving its original identity and reproducing itself, to develop measurement tool for in educational organizations. The research has been conducted group consisting 250 teachers working primary, secondary high schools. Autopoiesis S...

Objective: The number of publications reporting anxiety and fear about the ongoing outbreak coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) continues to grow; however, psychometric tools available assess a Turkish population are insufficient measure relevant mental health outcomes. purpose this study was examine properties version Fear COVID-19 Scale (FCV-19S) analyze validity reliability in children adolescents. ...

Although music learners’ metacognition could regulate and improve their practice performance, respectively, metacognitive measurement tools for domains remain scarce. Hence, this study aimed to develop validate a Metacognitive Questionnaire Music Learning (MQML). Through item analysis, exploratory factor analysis (EFA), confirmatory (CFA), two rounds of research were conducted on 513 valid ques...

AIM The development of the 6-factor, 27-item Muscle Dysmorphia Inventory (MDI) was based on Lantz et al. proposed model of characteristics associated with Muscle Dysmorphia. METHODS EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN quantitative procedures including item-to-total correlations, exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses, and structure equation modeling confirmed the construct validity of the scale. Con...

Objectives. To develop and validate a scale measuring pharmacy students' attitudes toward social media professionalism, and assess the impact of an educational presentation on social media professionalism. Methods. A social media professionalism scale was used in a pre- and post-survey to determine the effects of a social media professionalism presentation. The 26-item scale was administered to...

The Attentional Control Scale (ACS) is a self-report questionnaire that has been developed to measure individual differences in attentional control. Despite its fairly widespread use, little is known about the psychometric properties of the scale in adult samples. In the present study, factor structure of the ACS and its relationship with symptoms of anxiety and depression was investigated in a...

BACKGROUND Vulvodynia classification is based on the sensory dimensions of pain and does not include psychological factors associated with the pain experience and treatment outcomes. Previous work has shown that individuals with chronic pain can be classified into subgroups based on pain sensitivity, psychological distress, mood, and symptom severity. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to id...