Introduction: Objective structured clinical examination (OSCE) is used for the evaluation of the clinical competence in medicine for which it is essential to measure validity and reliability. This study aimed to investigate the validity and reliability of OSCE for residents of obstetrics and gynecology at Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences in 2011. Methods: A descriptive-correlation stud...

BACKGROUND The outcome of communication training is widely measured by self-efficacy ratings, and different questionnaires have been used. Nevertheless, none of these questionnaires have been formally validated through systematic measurement of assessment properties. Consequently, we decided to further develop a self-efficacy questionnaire which has been used in previous studies. This study aim...

BACKGROUND In the era of deinstitutionalization, increasing numbers of schizophrenia patients reside and receive rehabilitational treatment within the framework of community hostels. The quality of staff-patient relationships is a crucial determinant of the rehabilitational process outcome. METHOD This study examined the characteristics of 56 schizophrenia hostel residents, measured the degre...

Objective. To validate the Yoruba version of Family Burden Interview Schedule (Y-FBIS) for assessing the burden on caregivers of persons with schizophrenia. Methods. Three hundred and sixty-eight dyads of persons with schizophrenia and their caregivers were recruited from a psychiatric outpatient clinic. The (Y-FBIS) and the Yoruba version of the GHQ-12 (Y-GHQ-12) were applied to the caregivers...

BACKGROUND With the increase use of convenience food and eating outside the home environment being linked to the obesity epidemic, the need to assess and monitor individuals cooking and food skills is key to help intervene where necessary to promote the usage of these skills. Therefore, this research aimed to develop and validate a measure for cooking skills and one for food skills, that are cl...

BACKGROUND The Scale to Assess Unawareness in Mental Disorder (SUMD) is widely used in clinical trials and epidemiological studies but more rarely in clinical practice because of its length (74 items). In clinical practice, it is necessary to provide shorter instruments. The aim of this study was to investigate the validity and reliability of the abbreviated version of the SUMD. METHODS DE...

this study was conducted to determine the validity and reliability of osce in evaluating the clinical skills of midwifery students at kashan university of medical sciences in 2014. this descriptive-correlational study was carried out on 23 senior midwifery students. the osce scores were calculated according to the structured objective checklists. content and criterion validity and reliability w...

INTRODUCTION The Life Skills Profile (LSP) is an assessment instrument of general function in activities of daily life, especially developed for people diagnosed of a severe mental illness. There are different versions of the LSP. The aim of this paper is to validate and adapt the brief form of the LSP (LSP-20) to the Spanish population. METHODS Two different samples have been recruited for t...

BACKGROUND Community integration is an essential right for people with schizophrenia that affects their well-being and quality of life, but no valid instrument exists to measure it in Japan. The aim of the present study is to develop and evaluate the reliability and validity of the Japanese version of the Community Integration Measure (CIM) for people with schizophrenia. METHODS The Japanese ...