It has been noticed that internet addiction scale which can apply and measure dependency level of individual couldn’t reach at saturation level in national literature. So, it was aimed to adapt an internet addiction scale. Adapted scale was developed by Nichols and Nicki in 2004 and this study was sounded as “Internet Addiction Scale”. The reliability cronbach alfa of original scale was obtaine...

The objective of this study was to assess the competency of surgery residents from the patient perspective in the current healthcare environment in China. The authors performed an assessment of 508 surgery residents in Liaoning province. Seven patients were as a group to complete the self-administered questionnaires on the survey for each individual corresponding resident. A 5-point rating scal...

OBJECTIVE To develop a standardized validated version of the Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression (HAM-D) in Urdu. METHODS After translation of the HAM-D into the Urdu language following standard guidelines, the final Urdu version (HAM-D-U) was administered to 160 depressed outpatients. Inter-item correlation was assessed by calculating Cronbach alpha. Correlation between HAM-D-U scores at ba...

Objectives and Methods. Several researchers have provided support for the critical role of cognitive vulnerabilities in the development of depression. The Attitudes toward Self-Revised (ATS-R) was designed to assess three potential self-regulatory vulnerabilities to depression: High Standards (HS), Self-Criticism (SC), and Negative Generalization (NG). The aim of the study was to assess the psy...

PURPOSE To produce a physician and scientific workforce that advances high-quality research and culturally competent care, academic medical centers (AMCs) must assess their capacity for diversity and inclusion and leverage opportunities for improvement. The Diversity Engagement Survey (DES) is presented as a diagnostic and benchmarking tool. METHOD The 22-item DES consists of eight factors th...

OBJECTIVE We aimed to develop a questionnaire assessing fears and beliefs of patients with knee OA. DESIGN We sent a detailed document reporting on a qualitative analysis of interviews of patients with knee OA to experts, and a Delphi procedure was adopted for item generation. Then, 80 physicians recruited 566 patients with knee OA to test the provisional questionnaire. Items were reduced acc...

UNLABELLED Th aim of the study was to assess this course as perceived by the 6th year dentistry students. MATERIAL AND METHODS Applying and validating the "Dundee Ready Education Environment Measure (DREEM)" for the first time in Romania. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION The reliability of the test according to Cronbach alpha method, which measures the internal consistency of a test, was 0.87 (Cronba...

PURPOSE To construct a multidimensional questionnaire that analyses the epileptic child quality of life from the parental point of view. METHOD The pilot questionnaire was composed of 157 questions distributed in several dimensions. Fifty-one epileptic children's parents answered the questionnaire. The instrument was tested in its diverse properties: frequency of endorsement, homogeneity (Cro...

Introduction: The Questionnaire for Olfactory Dysfunction (QOD) is a self-reporting olfactory-related quality of life questionnaire. The aim of this study was to determine the reliability and validity of the Persian version of this questionnaire. Materials and Methods: One hundred and thirteen patients with olfactory problems were enrolled in this study. The English version of the QOD was first...

BACKGROUND Upper Respiratory Infections (URIs) are common in children. The cause is usually viral, but parents' attitude often contributes to inappropriate antibiotic prescribing, promoting antibiotic resistance. The objective is to describe the process of developing a questionnaire to assess parents' Knowledge, Attitude and Practices (KAP) concerning the role of antibiotics when children suffe...