abstract the main objective of the study was to develop and validate a questionnaire to measure entrepreneurial behavior. statistical population (n = 1497) of the research were all humanities graduate students at the science and research branch of islamic azad university, tehran in 2011, of whom 500 individuals were selected and completed a researcher compiled entrepreneurial behavior questionn...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the reliability of an instrument for classifying elderly people regarding their capacity for self-care, which was developed to assist occupational therapists in attending elderly people at primary healthcare units. METHODS Stability and internal consistency tests were carried out. To validate the instrument, tests were applied to a sample of 30 individuals aged 60 years ...

Although the revised dyadic adjustment scale (RDAS) has been widely used as an indicator of the quality of marital relationship, no report is available on the reliability of this measure in patients on hemodialysis. We examined the internal consistency of the RDAS in a group of Iranian patients undergoing maintenance hemodialysis. A translated Persian version of the RDAS was self-administered t...

OBJECTIVE To translate into Arabic and validate the SF-36 quality of life index in a Tunisian Arabic population. BACKGROUND No validated Arabic quality of life index is published. DESIGN Arabic translation of the SF-36 scale was obtained by the "forward/backward translation" method. Adaptations were made after a pilot study involving 22 subjects from general population. Inter-rater reliabil...

background: in any research work the used tools to approach the designed project goals, should be evaluated. the purpose of the present study was to obtain validity and reliability of nutritional knowledge, illness perception and dietary adherence questionnaire. methods: the questionnaire of student ratings of teaching was evaluated in a descriptive study. in this study the views of 11 expert f...

BACKGROUND The objectives of this study were to test the factor structure and internal consistency of the 12-item General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12) and the Subjective Vitality Scale (VS) in elderly French people, and to test the relationship between these two questionnaires. METHODS Using a standard 'forward-backward' translation procedure, the English language versions of the two instrum...