background: the endometriosis health profile-30 (ehp-30) is a disease-specific questionnaire to measure the health-related quality of life in patients with endometriosis. the aim of this study was to evaluate the validity and reliability of the persian version of endometriosis health pro-file (ehp-30) in women with endometriosis referring to three gynecology clinics in tehran, iran. methods: on...

BACKGROUND Few assessment instruments have examined the nutrition and physical activity environments in child care, and none are self-administered. Given the emerging focus on child care settings as a target for intervention, a valid and reliable measure of the nutrition and physical activity environment is needed. METHODS To measure inter-rater reliability, 59 child care center directors and...

The Measure Athletes’ Volition consists of 23 items that measure six elements of volitional competences. The purpose of the present study was to examine whether a subset of these items could form a short version of the scale; to provide evidence for the structural validity and internal consistency of the short version; and to test validity issues of the new scale. A total of 831 individuals fro...

Objective: The Objective of this study was to determine the intrarater reliability of chest expansion at three different anatomical landmarks using a cloth tape measure among healthy peoples. Materials and Methods: 120 healthy male and female volunteers were evaluated on two occasions in different days. The measures consisted of chest expansion measurement at axilla, fourth intercostals and xip...

OBJECTIVE To assess the reliability of using a cloth tape measure to determine thoracic respiratory excursion as a measurement of chest expansion or mobility. METHODS Physicians and residents experienced in osteopathic manipulative treatment measured thoracic excursion with a cloth tape measure held around the circumference of healthy male subjects' chests at two levels. Upper thoracic excurs...

We discuss how to measure the reliability of recognized utterances based on a confidence measure, and applied it to a dialog speech translation system. In this study, we employ generalized word posterior probability (GWPP), a confidence measure for verifying recognized words, and expand it to measure the reliability of recognized utterances. We confirmed the performance improvement by applying ...

When evaluating schools’ effectiveness, is it better to use absolute achievement levels or to use learning rates over a 9or 12-month period? Or is it better to use a new measure, seasonal impact, which is defined as the acceleration in learning rates that occurs when students finish summer vacation and start the school year? Answering this question involves a tradeoff between validity and relia...

OBJECTIVE To examine the validity, reliability and usefulness of the Spinal Cord Independence Measure for the UK spinal cord injury population. DESIGN Multi-centre cohort study. SETTING Four UK regional spinal cord injury centres. SUBJECTS Eighty-six people with spinal cord injury. INTERVENTIONS Spinal Cord Independence Measure and Functional Independence Measure on admission analysed u...

The majority of measurement scales used to evaluate outcome in rehabilitation are ordinal in nature and consequently statistically valid assessments of change are difficult to make. The Functional Independence Measure (FIM) can be weighted to possess interval properties, potentially allowing more accurate analysis of change. In this study the FIM was compared to the Barthel Index (BI) to determ...