BACKGROUND No published quantitative instrument exists to measure maternal satisfaction with the quality of different models of labour care in the UK. METHODS A quantitative psychometric multidimensional maternal satisfaction questionnaire, the Women's Views of Birth Labour Satisfaction Questionnaire (WOMBLSQ), was developed using principal components analysis with varimax rotation of success...

BACKGROUND Society expects physicians to perform perfectly but high levels of perfectionism are associated with symptoms of distress in medical students. This study investigated whether medical students admitted to medical school by different selection criteria differ in the occurrence of perfectionism. METHODS Newly enrolled undergraduate medical students (n = 358) filled out the following i...

The purpose of this study is to adapt imported instruments for measuring multidimensional perfectionism in sport situations and perceived group cohesion, in terms of construct validity and reliability, as well as from the aspect of interpretability, addressed on Croatian samples of athletes. Group Environment Questionnaire (GEQ) and Sport Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale (MSSP) are applied....

The multidimensional multiscale parser (MMP) algorithm was originally proposed as a multidimensional signal lossy compression method. This method uses a set of patterns stored in a dictionary, that are scaled to approximate each variable-length segment of a multidimensional signal. Thus, the input signal is encoded using only a set of flags, that define the segmentation of the original message,...

OBJECTIVE To develop a self-report inventory to quantify satisfaction with hearing aids. DESIGN The inventory was developed in several stages. To determine the elements that are most important to satisfaction for most people, we conducted structured interviews and then designed a questionnaire. Hearing aid owners responded to the questionnaire, indicating the relative importance of 14 differe...

BACKGROUND Measuring patient satisfaction after anaesthesia care is complex. The existing patient satisfaction questionnaires are limited and omit aspects of patient satisfaction, such as professional competence, information provision, service, and staff-patient relationship. The aim of our study was to develop a valid and reliable self-reported multidimensional questionnaire assessing patient ...

OBJECTIVE To describe the translation and cultural adaptation of the Japanese Orthopaedic Association Back Pain Evaluation Questionnaire into Brazilian Portuguese, and verifies the reliability and validity of this new version. METHODS A cross-cultural adaptation of the Japanese Orthopaedic Association Back Pain Evaluation Questionnaire was performed using the following steps: translation, bac...

Page 1 During my recent in-depth evaluation of ACCION's PortaCredit technology, I interviewed their technical staff and visited the MFIs implementing the technology. What I saw impressed me considerably. The technology takes time to implement, but when done it works and it works quite well. The most important evidence in my mind is that the operational staff love it and would never choose to go...