BACKGROUND Construction workers in South Africa are regarded as a high-risk group in the context of HIV/AIDS. HIV testing is pivotal to controlling HIV transmission and providing palliative care and AIDS-related knowledge and stigma are key issues in addressing the likelihood of testing behaviour. In exploring these issues, various studies have employed an 11-item AIDS-related knowledge scale (...

INTRODUCTION The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) is a relatively short instrument developed to detect psychosocial problems in children aged 3-16 years. It addresses four dimensions: emotional problems, conduct problems, hyperactivity/inattention problems, peer problems that count up to the total difficulties score, and a fifth dimension; prosocial behaviour. The validity and rel...

BACKGROUND Short and valid instruments for measuring factors facilitating or hindering implementation efforts are called for. This article describes (1) the adaptation of a shorter version of the Evidence-based Practice Attitude Scale (EBPAS-50 items), and (2) the psychometric properties of the shortened version in both US and Norwegian data. METHODS The US participants were mental health ser...

Quality of Nursing Work Life (QNWL) serves as a predictor of a nurse's intent to leave and hospital nurse turnover. However, QNWL measurement tools that have been validated for use in China are lacking. The present study evaluated the construct validity of the QNWL scale in China. A cross-sectional study was conducted conveniently from June 2012 to January 2013 at five hospitals in Guangzhou, w...

The aim of the present study was to cross-culturally adapt and validate the Spanish version of the Performance Enhancement Attitude Scale (PEAS). A cross-sectional multi-sample survey with 17 independent datasets was carried out. Cross-cultural adaptation of the PEAS into Spanish was conducted through forward/backward translations, consensus panels and comparative analyses of known-groups to es...

OBJECTIVE To study the psychometric characteristics of German version of the Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture and to compare its dimensionality to other language versions in order to understand the instrument's potential for cross-national studies. DESIGN Cross-sectional multicentre study to establish psychometric properties of German version of the survey instrument. SETTING 73 un...

Introduction: Substance use disorder is one of the most critical social problems in Iran. For this disorder, weneed a proper assessment tool based on our indigenous culture. Objective: This study assesses factor structure and psychometric properties 10-item 20-item Persian versions Drug Abuse Screening Tests (DAST-10 DAST-20). Materials Methods: In cross-sectional study, we randomly selected 20...

Empathy is a skill that enables the identification with and interpretation of others' subjective experiences. The purpose this study was to validate Quotient (EQ) in adolescents Mexico. A sample 573 Mexican adolescent students (350 female 223 male) an age range 12-19 years employed (Mage= 14.8 years, SD= 1.96). An exploratory factor analysis (EFA) carried out which identified two factors, one 1...

Bu araştırmanın amacı, adalarda turizm kavramını inceleyerek Liu vd. (2017) tarafından geliştirilen Destinasyon Çekiciliği Ölçeği ile Tsaur (2016) Marka Kimliği Ölçeğinin Türkçeye uyarlanmasıdır. Araştırma ölçeklerin yapı geçerliği ve güvenirliği incelenmiştir. Açıklayıcı Faktör Analizi (AFA) geçerlikleri sonucunda toplam varyansın %62,968’ini açıklayan 3 faktörlü bir elde edilmiştir. için %62,...