BACKGROUND The current study sought to evaluate the main and interactive effect of health perceptions, smoking quit attempt history, and readiness to change with respect to depressive symptoms among college student smokers. METHOD The present data came from baseline data from a randomized trial and included 495 undergraduate students (Mage = 23.84, SD = 4.92, 47.47% female) who reported smoki...

OBJECTIVE To assess the psychometric properties of a scale measuring mothers' perceptions of readiness for discharge after birth. DESIGN Psychometric analyses including construct validity using factor analysis and known groups comparisons, predictive validity, and reliability. Data were collected at discharge and 6 weeks postdischarge. SETTING Tertiary-level perinatal center in the Midweste...

BACKGROUND/AIM This study examined the reliability and convergent validity of the Writing Readiness Inventory Tool in Context, a measurement evaluating writing readiness in kindergarten children (aged from five to six years). METHODS Test-retest reliability was established with 59 children, inter-rater reliability with 72 children and convergent validity with 119 children. All participants we...

background and aims: infertility is one of the most important conditions in reproductive system and there is no reliable estimates for global prevalence of infertility. therefore, knowing the prevalence of infertility is important and can be effective in decision making. methods: we systematically reviewed all published papers in medline database and scopus (1988–2010). univariate and multivari...

BACKGROUND Post-conflict reconciliation is supposed to have a positive impact on survivors of war and conflict. However, knowledge is limited as validated questionnaires to assess individual readiness to reconcile in the context of human rights violations are still missing. OBJECTIVES This study aimed to develop and pilot-test a questionnaire to assess individual readiness to reconcile in vic...

This study examined the perceptions of 62 senior nursing students of the readiness of Jordanian organizations for change, students' motivators and their conflict-handling intentions. Such concepts should be taught at Schools of Nursing in order to prepare the students as nurses in the near future. It is found that the course of "Nursing Leadership and Management" has positive influence on stude...

BACKGROUND School readiness generally captures the notion that children do best when they arrive at formal schooling with a certain threshold of skill that will help them thrive in the classroom's academic and social milieu. AIMS To examine the dimensionality of the construct of school readiness among children with language impairment (LI), as well as the extent to which these dimensions rela...

introduction: applying information technology in healthcare system is one of the most important criteria of the world health organization for evaluating the quality of healthcare systems of different countries. moreover, applying this technology in different parts of health care system can create great potentials for improving the quality of healthcare services. in this regard, radio frequency ...

Graduate recruitment and selection differs from other contexts in that graduate applicants generally lack job-related experience. Recent research has highlighted that employers are placing increasing value on graduates being work ready. Work readiness is believed to be indicative of graduate potential in terms of long term job performance and career advancement. A review of the literature has f...