BACKGROUND Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD) is characterized by impaired development of motor coordination, with impact on daily life activities and academic performance. The Motor Coordination and Dexterity Assessment (MCDA) was created to offer Brazilian rehabilitation professionals a valid and reliable instrument for detecting DCD. OBJECTIVE To examine the MCDA criterion validity....

BACKGROUND Feeding practices are commonly examined as potentially modifiable determinants of children's eating behaviours and weight status. Although a variety of questionnaires exist to assess different feeding aspects, many lack thorough reliability and validity testing. The Feeding Practices and Structure Questionnaire (FPSQ) is a tool designed to measure early feeding practices related to n...

PURPOSE To assess the predictive validity of frailty and its domains (physical, psychological, and social), as measured by the Tilburg Frailty Indicator (TFI), for the adverse outcomes disability, health care utilization, and quality of life. DESIGN AND METHODS The predictive validity of the TFI was tested in a representative sample of 484 community-dwelling persons aged 75 years and older in...

129 words) This review of 103 studies (140 independent samples, 10,967 subjects), found average r=.27 for prediction of a wide collection of behavioral, judgment, and physiological measures by Implicit Association Test (IAT) measures. Parallel explicit (i.e., self-report) measures, available in 2/3 of these studies, also predicted effectively (96 samples, 7,018 subjects, average r=.33), but wer...

One of the major aims of performance investigation is to obtain a measure predicting real-life performance, in order to prevent consequences of a potential decrement. Whereas the predictive validity of such assessment has been extensively described for long-term outcomes, as is the case for testing in selection context, equivalent evidence is lacking regarding the short-term predictive value of...

OBJECTIVE To examine the test-retest reliability, convergent validity, and predictive validity of the comprehensive activities of daily living (CADL) measure in patients with stroke. DESIGN A repeated-assessments design, 10-14 days apart, was used to examine test-retest reliability in 70 patients. In the validity study, a further 168 patients were assessed at 6 months and 1 year after stroke....

BACKGROUND Risk assessment is crucial in preventing child maltreatment as it can identify high-risk cases in need of child protection intervention. Despite this importance, there have been no validated risk assessment instruments available in the Netherlands for assessing the risk of child maltreatment. Therefore, the predictive validity of the California Family Risk Assessment (CFRA) was exami...

Studies in psychology have indicated that ‘thin slices,’ very brief exposure to information, have a great deal of predictive validity in judgments and decision-making. We apply this concept of “thin slices” to study the behavior of consumers when surfing online. Our primary objective is to investigate whether consumers’ thin slice judgments of web sites have validity in an online environment. W...