Professional competence in nursing is of crucial importance for high quality care and patient related outcomes. A new instrument for measuring competence in nursing has been developed by a Swedish research group. The instrument is called the Nurse Professional Competence (NPC) Scale and is based on national guidelines, and the WHOs European Strategy for Nursing and Midwifery. The NPC Scale cons...

a:4:{s:10:"Background";s:367:"Infertility and its treatment can have a considerable effect on a person's quality of life (QoL). The Fertility Quality of Life (FertiQoL) questionnaire is currently the most frequently used instrument to measure QoL in people experiencing fertility problem. This study was conducted to examine the reliability and validity of the FertiQoL in Iranian infertile women....

introduction: the present study aimed to investigate the psychometric properties of grasha-riechmann student learning styles scale. method: the participants included 1039 students (421 students in human and 618 students in technical sciences), selected through the stratified sampling method from tehran university. they answered the grasha-riechmann student learning style scale and the data was ...

The most frequently used measuring instrument for determination of dental fear and anxiety (DFA) in children nowadays is the Dental Subscale of the Children's Fear Survey Schedule (CFSS-DS). In this study we wanted to explore the reliability and validity of CFSS-DS scale in Bosnian children patients' sample. There were 120 patients in the study, divided in three age groups (8, 12, and 15 years ...

AIM To develop and psychometrically validate the Compassion Competence Scale. BACKGROUND Compassion is a vital asset in the nursing profession; thus, it is necessary to develop a suitable instrument for assessment. METHODS The 49-item preliminary instrument was developed using concept analysis (hybrid model). Content and face validity were confirmed by 10 experts and 10 nurses, respectively...

PURPOSE To validate the instrument Body Image Relationship Scale (BIRS) for Brazilian women with breast cancer. METHODS The instrument was administered by trained interviewers to 139 women who used the Brazilian Unified Health System (SUS). All of them had been submitted to cancer treatments between 2006 and 2010. The instrument was validated considering internal consistency and reliability. ...

OBJECTIVES Students who perceived their learning environment positively are more likely to develop effective learning strategies, and adopt a deep learning approach. Currently, there is no validated instrument for measuring the educational environment of educational programs on respiratory care (RC). The aim of this study was to develop an instrument to measure students' perception of the RC ed...

BACKGROUND depression is common but under-diagnosed in nursing-home residents. There is a need for a standardized screening instrument which incorporates daily observations of nursing-home staff. AIM to develop and validate a screening instrument for depression using items from the Minimum Data Set of the Resident Assessment Instrument. METHODS we conducted semi-structured interviews with 1...