Methods An appraisal framework, based on relevant items from existing tools (i.e. COSMIN, FDA, EMPRO, SAC) was developed. Initial testing was conducted as part of a systematic review, in which data were extracted from 100 papers describing parental feeding practices measures (HomeSTEAD). Next, the framework was expanded to include a scoring system for items related to conceptual framework, reli...

OBJECTIVE To develop, in a collaborative project, core measures of sun exposure and sun protection habits, since the lack of standard outcome measures hampers comparison of population surveys and interventions used in skin cancer prevention research. DESIGN A work group of investigators evaluated available questionnaire measures of sun exposure and protection. Their deliberations led to a pro...

BACKGROUND Childcare services represent a valuable obesity prevention opportunity, providing access to a large portion of children at a vital point in their development. Few rigorously validated measures exist to measure healthy eating and physical activity policies and practices in this setting, and no such measures exist that are specific to the childcare setting in Australia. METHODS This ...

Current measures of health literacy have been criticized on a number of grounds, including use of a limited range of content, development on small and atypical patient groups, and poor psychometric characteristics. In this paper, we report the development and preliminary validation of a new computer-administered and -scored health literacy measure addressing these limitations. Items in the meas...

This paper investigates the difference between two widely used measures of accruals and their differential impact on accrual strategy returns. The two measures are accruals computed using consecutive changes in the balance sheet items and accruals computed as earnings minus cash flows from operating activities, both from the cash flow statement. Our investigations reveal that the difference bet...

We present data on the preliminary validation of a measure of romantic attachment orientation from the California Adult Q-Sort (CAQ). The CAQ is found in several longitudinal data sets, and researchers can use the CAQ to answer questions about changes in romantic attachment across the lifespan. Expert raters nominated CAQ items that were characteristic of attachment anxiety and avoidance. In a ...

Balance confidence, measured using the Activity-Specific Balance Confidence Scale (ABC-16), can affect quality of life in individuals with Parkinson's disease (PD). Two abbreviated 6-item versions of the ABC-16 have been previously derived to measure balance confidence in an expedited fashion. This study aimed to validate these abbreviated versions and to determine their correlations with measu...

It is somewhat ironic that although youth today are saturated in media, no standardized instrument exists to measure individual differences in exposure to specific media content. Therefore, we developed and validated a scale to measure both the frequency and content of adolescents’ media exposure, which measures media exposure regardless of media channel: the Content-based Media Exposure Scale ...

OBJECTIVE This study examined whether dimensions of complicated grief (CG) could be distinguished from dimensions of depression and whether these dimensions were differentially affected by group psychotherapy for CG. METHOD A total of 398 psychiatric outpatients who had experienced one or more significant death losses provided ratings on standard measures of grief and depression. Factor analy...

Is it possible to establish a consistent, stable relationship between the structure of number and additive amounts of mindfulness practice? A bank of thirty items, constructed from a review of the literature and from novice practitioners' journal responses to mindfulness practice, comprised the instrument. A convenience sample of students in a teacher education program participated. The WINSTEP...