OBJECTIVE In a previous qualitative study (GULiVer-I), a series of lay-people derived recommendations ('tips') was listed for doctor and patient on 'How to make medical consultation more effective from the patient's perspective'. This work (GULiVer-II) aims to find evidence whether these tips can be generally applied, by using a quantitative approach, which is grounded in the previous qualitati...

The competitiveness in the industrial environment has increased considerably and, as a direct consequence, the search for different techniques and management practices to achieve better performance in all processes have been a major concern for organizations interested in solidifying its global market presence. Companies are using models, philosophies and programs to improve their production pr...

Introduction: There are two popular methods of clinical skillsteaching. One is Peyton’s method, and the other one is RobertGagne’s method. A hybrid model which is a combination ofboth teaching methods is developed and implemented at AvalonUniversity School of Medicine in Clinical Skills. The aim of thestudy was to evaluate the hybrid model of clinical skills teachi...

introduction: the application of organizational ethics in hospitals is one of the novel ways to improve medical ethics. nowadays achieving efficient and sufficient ethical hospital indicators seems to be inevitable. in this connection, the present study aims to determine the best indicators in hospital accreditation. methods: 69 indicators in 11 fields to evaluate hospital ethics were achieved ...

Likert scales are routinely used in educational and psychological research as measures of constructs of interest. If sound scale development procedures are followed, the resulting scale can reliably and validly measure a construct. However, if a given scale is used to make comparisons among different populations of respondents (e.g., cultures; Riordan & Vandenberg, 1994), over time in longitudi...

The aim of this study was to propose a model for human resource training at the Ministry of Sports and Youth. This research is practical from the objective point of view and it is complex (the combination of qualitative and quantitative methods) from nature perspective. The statistical population in the qualitative sector, including the experts of the Ministry of Sports, was knowledgeable and d...

Personality measurement is based on the idea that values on an unobservable latent variable determine the distribution of answers on a manifest response scale. Typically, it is assumed in the Item Response Theory (IRT) that latent variables are related to the observed responses through continuous normal or logistic functions, determining the probability with which one of the ordered response al...

Summarizing Likert scale ratings from human annotators is an important step for collecting human judgments. In this project we study a novel, graph theoretic method for this purpose. We also analyze a few interesting properties for this approach using real annotation datasets.

One of the most commonly accepted models of relationships among three variables in applied industrial and organizational psychology is the simple moderator effect. However, many authors have expressed concern over the general lack of empirical support for interaction effects reported in the literature. We demonstrate in the current sample that use of a continuous, dependent-response scale inste...