BACKGROUND Sexual violence against children is a major global health and human rights problem. In order to address this issue there needs to be a better understanding of the issue and the consequences. One major challenge in accomplishing this goal has been a lack of validated child mental health assessments in low-resource countries where the prevalence of sexual violence is high. This paper p...

Self-efficacy in essential hypertension can be measured using scales, such as the "Hypertension Self-Care Profile" (HTN-SCP) questionnaire. It assesses "Behavior", "Motivation", and "Self-efficacy" in 3 domains, respectively. This study aimed to validate the Mandarin version of HTN-SCP instrument (HTN-SCP-Mn) targeted at patients of Chinese ethnicity with hypertension.Our study recruited Chines...

Resumen: El propósito de este trabajo fue diseñar y validar un nuevo instrumento para medir la experiencia emocional positiva de niños de 8 a 12 años de edad. La muestra piloto estuvo conformada por 445 niños (n = 221) y niñas (n = 224), con una media de edad de 9.54 años (DT = 1.25), pertenecientes a diferentes provincias argentinas. La muestra definitiva estuvo integrada por 1046 niños (n = 5...

Generalmente cuando el coeficiente alfa de Cronbach es superior a 0.7 se indica por consenso que una prueba cualquiera fiable, sin embargo, dicho umbral un criterio subjetivo carece respaldo inferencial, y en algunas ocasiones, utiliza desconociendo las limitaciones este coeficiente. Así, presente propone soporte compacto para estimador la fiabilidad, manera superar restricciones del efecto cov...

RESUMO Objetivo avaliar a validade e confiabilidade da Escala de Solidão UCLA versão 3 numa amostra idosos brasileiros. Métodos estudo metodológico, realizado com 136 cadastrados em unidades saúde família. A construto foi verificada pela análise fatorial exploratória correlação medidas depressão apoio social. avaliada pelo alfa Cronbach. Resultados na extraído um componente cuja variância expli...

AMAÇ: Çalışmanın amacı ÖTD tanı ve tedavisindeki sınırlılıkları ortadan kaldırmak için oluşturulan Östaki Tüpü Disfonksiyon Ölçeği-7’nin (ETDQ-7) Türkçe doğrulaması kullanılarak, eksternal validasyonunu sağlamak Sinonazal Sonuç Testi-22 (SNOT-22) testi alt gruplarının bu amaçla kullanılabilirliğini değerlendirmektir.
 GEREÇ VE YÖNTEM: tanısı almış hasta grubu kontrol tarafından ETDQ-7 SNOT...

Aim: The aim of the study was to examine psychometric properties Czech version Surgical Fear Questionnaire. Design: A cross-sectional design. STROBE guidelines for reporting observational studies were followed study. Methods: sample consisted 332 adult patients from Republic. Questionnaire (SFQ) used measure preoperative fear. Cronbach’s alpha calculated test reliability. construct validi...

BACKGROUND Perception of quality of life may differ depending on the perspective. The aim of the study was to assess the psychometric properties of the Spanish version of the 'TOlerability and quality Of Life' (TOOL) questionnaire, a specific self-rated instrument to evaluate the impact of side effects of antipsychotic drugs on health-related quality of life (HRQoL). The questionnaire consists ...

BACKGROUND The central factor influencing therapeutic decisions in essential tremor (ET) is the functional impact of the tremor. Neither the neurological examination nor computerized tremor analysis measures function. Questionnaires may assess function, but data are highly subjective. Performance-based tests of functional impairment provide an alternative means with which to assess the function...

PURPOSE To extract unidimensional, well-separated latent scores that are anatomically and clinically valid from 52 standardized variables collected by Humphrey visual field (VF) perimetry (Carl Zeiss Meditec, Dublin, CA). METHODS Visual field data of 437 patients were collected and classified by a glaucoma specialist into seven clinical groups: irregularities of VF (IVF), nasal step (NaS), ar...