BACKGROUND The Japanese Orthopaedic Association decided to revise the JOA score for low back pain and to develop a new outcome measure. In February 2002, the first survey was performed with a preliminary questionnaire consisting of 60 evaluation items. Based on findings of that survey, 25 items were selected for a draft of the JOA Back Pain Evaluation Questionnaire (JOABPEQ). The second survey ...

This report describes the construction of a questionnaire to measure three dimensions of human eating behavior. The first step was a collation of items from two existing questionnaires that measure the related concepts of 'restrained eating' and 'latent obesity', to which were added items newly written to elucidate these concepts. This version was administered to several populations selected to...

the aim of the present study was to examine psychometric properties of the schema questionnaire, including reliability and validity in a sample of university students (n=387). the original version of the schema questionnaire was made for measuring the early maladaptive schemas by young adults. it is assumed that early maladaptive schemas may lead to psychological disorders. the factor analysis ...

The purpose of this study is to develop a Chinese version of Empathy Quotient (Baron-Cohen, 2004). The original version of Empathy Quotient (EQ) is a self-report questionnaire including cognitive and affective aspects of empathy. We translated the Empathy Quotient into Chinese and asked 360 subjects to fill up the questionnaire. The results of confirmatory factor analyses showed that the factor...

BACKGROUND Clinical education is an important component of many health professional training programs. There is a range of questionnaires to assess the quality of the clinical educator however none are in student-led clinic environments. The present study developed a questionnaire to assess the quality of the clinical educators in the osteopathy program at Victoria University. METHODS A syste...