Background The increasing biomarkers testing and new methods of presymptomatic screening for dementia have risen questions like: Should people get tested? Would they want to know whether will this fatal, untreatable disease? This has picked the demand a well-structured counseling program screening. In direction, it is important meet needs target group; however, not much known about with family ...

BACKGROUND Informal carers face many challenges in caring for patients with palliative care needs. Selecting suitable valid and reliable outcome measures to determine the impact of caring and carers' outcomes is a common problem. AIM To identify outcome measures used for informal carers looking after patients with palliative care needs, and to evaluate the measures' psychometric properties. ...

BACKGROUND Pain is a common and major problem among nursing home residents. The prevalence of pain in elderly nursing home people is 40-80%, showing that they are at great risk of experiencing pain. Since assessment of pain is an important step towards the treatment of pain, there is a need for manageable, valid and reliable tools to assess pain in elderly people with dementia. METHODS This s...

This paper describes the development and initial psychometric testing of baseline Spirituality Survey (SS-1) from Study on Stress, Spirituality, Health (SSSH). The SS-1 contains a mixture items selected validated existing scales new generated to measure important constructs not captured by instruments, our purpose here was establish validity measures in racially/ethnically diverse sample. Psych...

Study objective: To develop a measure of unplanned pregnancy that is valid, reliable, and appropriate in the context of contemporary demographic trends and social mores and can be used in a variety of situations, including the production of population prevalence estimates. Design: A two stage study design: qualitative (inductive) methods to delineate the construct of pregnancy planning, and qua...

Introduction: Standardized assessments are widely used by speech pathologists in clinical and research settings to evaluate the language abilities of school-aged children and inform decisions about diagnosis, eligibility for services and intervention. Given the significance of these decisions, it is important that assessments have sound psychometric properties. Objective: The aim of this system...

STUDY OBJECTIVE To develop a measure of unplanned pregnancy that is valid, reliable, and appropriate in the context of contemporary demographic trends and social mores and can be used in a variety of situations, including the production of population prevalence estimates. DESIGN A two stage study design: qualitative (inductive) methods to delineate the construct of pregnancy planning, and qua...

Abstract. The present proliferation of e-learning has been actively underway for the last 10 years. Current research in Adaptive Testing System focuses on the development of psychometric models with items selection strategies applicable to adaptive testing processes. The key aspect of proposed Adaptive Testing System is to develop an increasingly sophisticated latent trait model which can assis...