نتایج جستجو برای: internal validity

تعداد نتایج: 333180  

2010
Ivo Van den Berg Ingmar H. A. Franken Peter Muris

SEVERAL PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORIES ASSUME THAT THERE ARE TWO BASIC BRAIN MECHANISMS THAT GUIDE BEHAVIOR: an avoidance or inhibition system, which is responsive to signals of punishment, and an approach or activation system, which is sensitive to signals of reward. Several self-report scales have been developed to assess the sensitivity to punishment and reward, and these instruments have been shown...

2010
Raj Kumari Gupta Harpreet Kaur

The present study examines stress among parents of children with intellectual disability. 102 parents formed the sample of this study, 30 of whom had children without disability. A stress assessment test with internal validity of 0.608 was utilised. This test has two parts: physical and mental, former with 19 items and latter with 21 items. T test was applied to check differences in stress, gen...

2008
Filipa A. Costa Catherine Duggan Ian Bates

UNLABELLED There is a need for tools to measure the information patients need in order for healthcare professionals in general, and particularly pharmacists, to communicate effectively and play an active part in the way patients manage their medicines. Previous research has developed and validated constructs to measure patients' desires for information and their perceptions of how useful their ...

2015
Jae Young Lee Raghuram Iyengar

We study how consumers’ information search for and purchase of new products are affected by structure of their personal network. We focus on two network characteristics namely homophily and balance, which are expected to moderate information diagnosticity and search discomfort. To address threats to internal validity common in network studies, we conduct a randomized experiment in which we mani...

Journal: :Revista de saude publica 2009
Maria Carmen Martinez Maria do Rosário Dias de Oliveira Latorre Frida Marina Fischer

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the validity and reliability of the Portuguese language version of a work ability index. METHODS Cross sectional survey of a sample of 475 workers from an electrical company in the state of Sao Paulo, Southeastern Brazil (spread across ten municipalities in the Campinas area), carried out in 2005. The following aspects of the Brazilian version of the Work Ability Index w...

Journal: :Family process 2015
Elena Hamilton Alan Carr Paul Cahill Ciara Cassells Dan Hartnett

The SCORE (Systemic Clinical Outcome and Routine Evaluation) is a 40-item questionnaire for completion by family members 12 years and older to assess outcome in systemic therapy. This study aimed to investigate psychometric properties of two short versions of the SCORE and their responsiveness to therapeutic change. Data were collected at 19 centers from 701 families at baseline and from 433 of...

2014
E D Fitkov-Norris

This article discusses the application of Rasch analysis to assess the internal validity of a four sub-scale VARK (Visual, Auditory, Read/Write and Kinaesthetic) learning styles instrument. The results from the analysis show that the Rasch model fits the majority of the VARK questionnaire data and the sample data support the internal validity of the four sub-constructs at 1% level of significan...

2002
Toni E. Serafini Gerald R. Adams

The purpose of this study was to construct a reliable indicator of the 5 functions of identity proposed by Adams and Marshall (1996). Following Loevinger’s (1957) method of test construction, 2 related studies were completed to test the substantive, structural, and external validity of the Functions of Identity Scale. Study 1 provides support for the substantive validity (factor structure, inte...

2015
Siriporn Pitimana-aree Suthipol Udompanthurak Saowaphak Lapmahapaisan Matula Tareerath Aungsumat Wangdee

BACKGROUND The quality of patients' recovery following surgery and anesthesia has been a matter of focus and concern over the past decade. The Quality of Recovery-40 (QoR-40) questionnaire was developed and validated for post-anesthesia patient evaluation. The QoR-40, however, is English-based and was tested and validated in Caucasian patients, a population that is culturally and behaviorally d...

2010
Lidwine B Mokkink Caroline B Terwee Dirk L Knol Paul W Stratford Jordi Alonso Donald L Patrick Lex M Bouter Henrica CW de Vet

BACKGROUND The COSMIN checklist (COnsensus-based Standards for the selection of health status Measurement INstruments) was developed in an international Delphi study to evaluate the methodological quality of studies on measurement properties of health-related patient reported outcomes (HR-PROs). In this paper, we explain our choices for the design requirements and preferred statistical methods ...

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