1 Anne F. Klassen, DPhil Hamilton, Ontario, Canada Stefan Cano, PhD Modus Outcomes Boston, Mass. Andrea Pusic, MD, MSc Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center New York, N.Y. Sir: W are writing in response to the article by Lee and Most1 describing a new patient-reported outcome (PRO) instrument for rhinoplasty patients, that is, the RHINO Scale. This 10-item scale purports to measure satisfactio...

Introduction. The objective of this study was to develop a short self-report questionnaire for evaluating patient satisfaction with the outcome of hip and knee replacement surgery. Methods. This scale consists of four items focusing on satisfaction with the extent of pain relief, improvement in ability to perform home or yard work, ability to perform recreational activities, and overall satisfa...

analyses illustrated that the spatial structure estimate obtained from measurement scale SLIla was inconsistent with that obtained from measurement scale t+. Thus, we conclude that the infiltrometer instrument fundamentally alters the infiltration process in such a way that measurements are only meaningful in a relative sense. Steady-state infiltration rates were measured at three instrument sc...

The purpose of this research was to examine the psychometric properties of a Spanish translation of the Flow State Scale (FSS; Jackson & Marsh, 1996). This instrument is used to assess the Flow State in participants of physical activity, although it can be adapted to other contexts (such as work, educational contexts, etc.). This construct can be considered the optimal psychological state to ca...

Responsiveness is a quality indicator presented by the World Health Organization in the field of health evaluation. Therefore, the objective of this study was to develop an instrument to evaluate the clients' opinions regarding the responsiveness of the nursing service of a public university hospital. The research was developed in the following stages: developing the instrument based on a liter...

Currently, no instrument exists to assess self-efficacy for surrogate decision making. This study assessed the psychometric properties of the Surrogate Decision Making Self-Efficacy Scale (SDM-SES). Interview data from surrogate decision makers (SDMs) were used to generate the items. Items were assessed for face validity by expert gerontological nurses. Responses from a sample of 155 SDMs for n...

BACKGROUND Failing to assess elderly patients for functional decline at the time around a minor injury may result in adverse health outcomes. This study was conducted to define what constitutes clinically significant functional decline and the sensitivity required for a clinical decision instrument to identify such functional decline after an injury in previously independent elderly patients. ...

OBJECTIVE This study aims to investigate the psychometric properties of the Malay version of the Dutch Eating Behaviour Questionnaire (DEBQ) among Malaysian adults. METHOD The Malay version of the DEBQ instrument was administered to 398 outpatients (269 women and 129 men) at the University of Malaya Medical Centre (UMMC). Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) was conducted to study the construct...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The growing diversity of patient populations challenges health care providers. Physicians' attitudes and perceptions toward cultural diversity in health care could be partly contributing to difficulties in communication between physicians and ethnic minority patients. To evaluate these attitudes and perceptions, an instrument was developed and validated. METHODS A pr...

This instrument has been constructed with the purpose of quantifying the severity of depressive states, i.e. to identify the depressive patient and to measure the response to treatment with an antidepressant. Type of instrument: Ordinal rating scale, 11 items, 5 grades. Eleven variables are assessed: Activity (motor); Activity (verbal); Retardation (intellectual); Anxiety (psychic); Suicidal im...