background and objectives: vaccination is the major strategy to protect nurses against infection with hepatitis b virus. however, some nurses do not produce sufficient amount of anti-hbsag antibody required for immunity against infection. chronic occupational stress has been proposed as a risk factor to humoral immunity. given that nursing staff is exposed to occupational stress risk, this stud...

background: despite progression of knowledge of nursing researcher about importance of psychometric principles of instruments of studies but it seems that this subject is not used correctly in nursing studies. this study is designed to critically assess the validity and reliability of instruments applied in studies published in iranian nursing journals methods: this study is a critical review o...

objective: since the study of driving behavior is of great  importance, we conducted this research to ‎investigate the psychometric properties and the factorial structure of the manchester driver ‎behavior questionnaire (dbq) in iranian drivers.‎ method: this cross – sectional research was performed on a sample of 800 drivers (of category d and ‎c) aged 23- 75 who were referred to imam sajjad c...

background: sustained visual attention is a prerequisite for learning and memory. the early evaluation of attention in childhood is essential for their school and career success in the future. the aim of this study was to design, development and investigation of psychometric properties (content, face and convergent validity and test-retest and internal consistency reliability) of the computer -...

Introduction: The most common nutritional problem observed among the aged is malnutrition. The study was conducted as methodological research to evaluate the validity and reliability of the Turkish Self Mini Nutritional Assessment Scale (Self-MNA) among Turkish elderly people. Methods: Data were collected from 131 aged individuals with the Sociodemographic Information Form, Mini Nutritional As...

Background & Aims: This study aimed to translate Parkinson Disease Quality of Life (PDQL) Questionnaire into Persian and test its reliability and validity in Iranian patients with Parkinson disease. Method: In order to standardize the questionnaire, a standard "Forward-Backward" translation, cognitive debriefing and cultural adaptation procedure were applied and the English version of PDQL was ...