this study has examined the organizational antecedents and consequences of hypocritical behaviors in interpersonal communication in najafabad public organizations. to this end, proportional questionnaires were distributed among 280 employees of organizations as a sample. to test the hypothesis, the data were fitted to structural equation models based on chi-square, normed chi-square, incrementa...

Background: Patients’ trust in their physicians can affect therapeutic outcomes. Measurement of patient’s trust levels is a helpful approach for policymakers in healthcare systems. Aim: The present study was targeted toward the translation and psychometric assessment of patients’ trust in midwifery care questionnaire. Method: This cross-sectional study was conducted on 210 female patients refer...

OBJECTIVES To examine the construct and correlates of hopelessness among family caregivers of Nigerian psychiatric patients. MATERIALS AND METHODS This is a cross-sectional, descriptive study involving 264 family caregiver-patients' dyads recruited from two university teaching hospitals psychiatric clinics in Southwestern Nigeria. RESULTS Exploratory factor analysis revealed a two-factor 9-...

BACKGROUND There are some specific measures for the evaluation of postpartum quality of life, and each have some limitations. OBJECTIVES This study investigated the validity and reliability of the Persian version of a postpartum women's quality of life (PQOL) questionnaire at the eighth week of postpartum. PATIENTS AND METHODS This was a methodological research, and subjects were 500 women,...

BACKGROUND Among the stress instruments that measure the degree to which life events are perceived as stressful, the Perceived Stress Scale (PSS) is widely used. The goal of this study was to examine the psychometric properties of a Thai version of the PSS-10 (T-PSS-10) with a clinical and non-clinical sample. Internal consistency, test-retest reliability, concurrent validity, and the factorial...

PURPOSE A comparative study of the ability of some modal schemes to reproduce corneal shapes of varying complexity was performed, by using both standard radial polynomials and radial basis functions (RBFs). The hypothesis was that the correct approach in the case of highly irregular corneas should combine several bases. METHODS Standard approaches of reconstruction by Zernike and other types ...

The scale of entrepreneurial ecosystems (EE) assesses the perceptions about ecosystem domains, finances, capital support, support professions, policies, markets, human resources, and culture. scales are always error-prone—these must possess properties that enable them it to provide maximum information validity reliability. Convenient sampling data from (n = 474) founders, co-founders, entrepren...

Model evaluation is one of the most important aspects of structural equation modeling (SEM). Many model fit indices have been developed. It is not an exaggeration to say that nearly every publication using the SEM methodology has reported at least one fit index. Most fit indices are defined through test statistics. Studies and interpretation of fit indices commonly assume that the test statisti...