UNLABELLED BACKGROUND The current healthcare climate is characterized by a constant battle for the provision of quality care with limited resources and with patient satisfaction receiving increased attention, there is a need for reliable and valid assessment measures. This study describes the adaptation, testing and validation of the Risser Patient satisfaction Scale in an oncology care sett...

UNLABELLED RATIONALE, AIM AND OBJECTIVES: Day surgery patients are discharged after a short period of postoperative surveillance, and reliable and valid instruments for assessment at home are needed. The aim of this study was to evaluate the psychometric properties of a Swedish version of the post-discharge surgical recovery (PSR) scale, an instrument to monitor the patient's recovery after day...

conclusions the findings support the validity and reliability of the iranian version of the qol-grav questionnaire. therefore, it is recommended to be used for both clinical and research purposes. results the qol-grav showed good content validity (cvi value = 0.95 and cvr value = 1), internal consistency (α = 0.79), and test–retest reliability (icc = 0.86). the results of the cfa for two-factor...

the aim of this study was to determine the validity and reliability of the persian version of sport perfectionism scale of dun et al. (2006). to determine the construct validity of the questionnaire, 393 (230 male and 163 female) athletes with different skill levels (novice, non-elite and elite) in 10 team and individual sports were selected by random sampling method and then completed the ques...

OBJECTIVE To adapt and validate a Brazilian Portuguese version of the European Heart Failure Self-Care Behavior Scale. METHODS The cross-cultural adaptation (translation, synthesis, back-translation, expert committee review, and pretesting) and validation (assessment of face validity, content validity, and internal consistency reliability) were carried out in accordance with the literature. T...

Although novel technologies are rapidly emerging, the cDNA microarray data accumulated is still and will be an important source for bioinformatics and biological studies. Thus, the reliability and applicability of the cDNA microarray data warrants further evaluation. In cDNA microarrays, multiple clones are measured for a transcript, which can be exploited to evaluate the consistency of microar...

Although the revised dyadic adjustment scale (RDAS) has been widely used as an indicator of the quality of marital relationship, no report is available on the reliability of this measure in patients on hemodialysis. We examined the internal consistency of the RDAS in a group of Iranian patients undergoing maintenance hemodialysis. A translated Persian version of the RDAS was self-administered t...

This study was aimed at evaluating the flow behavior characteristics of yogurt enriched with fish oil (FO) microcapsules prepared by complex coacervation method. FO was microencapsulated in gelatin-acacia gum coacervates. Then, the microcapsules were dried, and yogurt was produced from the milk enriched with microcapsules powder. Rheological characteristics (as measured using a rotational visco...

In many testing situations the use of parallel forms or test-retest reliability coefficients is impractical. Viable alternatives to these approaches are the internal consistency coefficients. One of the most commonly used internal consistency coefficients is Cronbach s coefficient alpha. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the robustness of coefficient alpha. To begin, I will provide a deri...