This research identifies the distribution of reading exercise questions based on cognitive domains in Revised Bloom's Taxonomy. It also attempts to change from Lower-order Thinking Skills (LOTS) items into Higher-order (HOTS) items. Content analysis was used as methodology. The subject study English textbook ‘Bahasa Inggris SMA/MA/SMK/MAK’ for year X high school students published by Ministry E...

OBJECTIVE To generate a list of items through international expert consensus consisting of both symptoms and clinical signs for inclusion in an adult vulvar lichen sclerosus severity scale. METHODS This study was carried out as a three-stage Delphi consensus exercise. After an extensive literature review, any items used to determine disease severity in previous clinical trials were compiled i...

OBJECTIVE To identify items on the BDI-II that best discriminate between clinically depressed and nondepressed postpartum women. BACKGROUND Postpartum depression is a serious and widespread health burden, and the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI-II) is commonly used to detect depression in the postpartum. Yet certain depressive symptoms are "normative" sequelae of childbirth, calling into quest...

BACKGROUND Quality of life (QoL) questionnaires are desirable for clinical practice but can be time-consuming to administer and interpret, making their widespread adoption difficult. OBJECTIVE Our aim was to assess the performance of the World Health Organization Quality of Life (WHOQOL)-100 questionnaire as four item banks to facilitate adaptive testing using simulated computer adaptive test...

OBJECTIVE To ascertain the content validity of the Self-perception of Family Health Status scale. METHOD A validation study of an instrument with an online Delphi panel using the consensus technique. Eighteen experts in the subject were intentionally selected, with a multidisciplinary origin and representing different professional fields. Each of the proposed items was assessed using a five-p...

BACKGROUND Elevated distress has been well documented among parents of children with cancer. Family systems theories suggest that cancer-related stressors and parental distress have the potential to affect child-rearing practices, but this topic has received limited empirical attention. The present work examined self-reported child-rearing practices among mothers and fathers of children with ca...

INTRODUCTION While the Lebanon Waterpipe Dependence Scale (LWDS-11) has shown promise in assessing dependence on waterpipe tobacco smoking (WTS) in Lebanon among adult users, it would be valuable to identify WTS addiction earlier and to explore reliability and validity of these items in other populations. METHODS In 2010-2012, we conducted a multiyear survey of 5,853 students from 4 Jordanian...

BACKGROUND There is now strong evidence that preventive oral antiretroviral therapy can moderately reduce likelihood of HIV infection. This concept is called HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP). Premature closures of some previous PrEP clinical trials, secondary to ethical concerns, did not stop research. We aimed to appraise the extent of ethics considerations reporting in PrEP study documents...