Objective: translating and transculturally adapting the Clinical Competence Questionnaire to Brazilian senior undergraduate Nursing students, as well as measuring psychometric properties of the questionnaire. Method: a methodological study carried out in six steps: translation of the Clinical Competence Questionnaire instrument, consensus of the translations, back-translation, analysis by an ...

OBJECTIVE to cross-culturally adapt and validate the Nursing Student Satisfaction Scale (NSSS) for use with nursing students in the Brazilian context. METHOD this was a quantitative exploratory and descriptive study using a cross-sectional design conducted with 123 undergraduate nursing students studying at a public university in the south of Brazil. The cross-cultural adaptation was performe...

This text, which takes Cronbach and Gleser’s diagnostic decisions utility model as its major point of reference and the Thematic Apperception Test as its example, is devoted to the issue of the diagnostic value of projective techniques. The paper provides a brief discussion of the classification of projective techniques and shows how information on the category of tool can be used to select the...

Stress in pregnancy can lead to low-birth-weight and preterm babies and to psychological consequences such as anxiety and depression during pregnancy and the puerperium. Previous scales to measure stress contain items that overlap with the symptoms of pregnancy. A stress scale was developed based on in-depth interviews with pregnant women in Pakistan. Construct validity, test-retest reliability...

The aims of this research were to assess the psychometric properties of the Need for Cognition Scale, and to test its factor structure. Both exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis were used. The results suggest that the Need for Cognition Scale – the short form has good psychometric properties after its translation into Romanian. Alfa Cronbach coefficients showed high reliability and conf...

Results The average stress value was 12.5 at the first measurement and 12.4 at the second measurement. The maximum score was 23; the minimum score was 2. There was a correlation of 0.88 (Intraclass Correlation Coefficient) between the values of the two measurements. Cronbach alpha was 0.97. Conclusion The BSSQbrace questionnaire is reliable with good internal consistency and reproducibility. It...

In this thesis, I have addressed a broad range of issues in clinical assessment, and presented new methods for improving its efficiency and accuracy. In clinical practice, assessments are often performed for making decisions: for example, assessment may be aimed at deciding which treatment should be provided to a patient. By taking the decision for which assessment is performed into account, th...

The KIDSCREEN-52 quality-of-life (KIDSCREEN-52-HRQOL) is a relevant, worldwide tool used for assessing the health-related quality of life in children and adolescents. The purpose of this study was to define measurement properties of the Korean version of the KIDSCREEN-52 HRQOL. The original questionnaire was translated following international translation guidelines. Analysis regarding psychomet...

The Young Children's Empathy Measure is a brief measure of young children's cognitive and affective perspective taking developed to assess preschool children's empathy. The Cronbach alpha coefficient of internal reliability for the empathy score was acceptable and interrater reliability across four rates was very high. The children's empathy scores were correlated with their ages and social dev...

Consistency of individual differences in several measures of Skinner box operant and other activity and their intercorrelations in 14 chinchilla bred rabbits were studied. Reliability analysis revealed that both operant and activity measures were highly consistent (Cronbach alpha>0.87) over at least 15 days. Furthermore, locomotor activity, the tendencies to press the lever with high frequency,...