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...

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...

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...

BACKGROUND Neck pain is a highly prevalent condition resulting in major disability. Standard scales for measuring disability in patients with neck pain have a pivotal role in research and clinical settings. The Neck Disability Index (NDI) is a valid and reliable tool, designed to measure disability in activities of daily living due to neck pain. The purpose of our study was the translation and ...

background: cervical spondylotic myelopathy (csm) is a common cause of significant clinical morbidity. the japanese orthopedic association cervical myelopathy evaluation questionnaire (joacmeq) is a measure of health-related quality of life in these patients. objectives: this study aimed to cross-culturally translate and validate the joacmeq in iran. patients and methods: this study was a prosp...

The primary goals of this study were to adapt the Quality of Life in Epilepsy Inventory-31 items (QOLIE-31) questionnaire to the Croatian language and to assess the translated questionnaire's psychometric properties. Translation/retranslation of the English version of the QOLIE-31 was done, and all steps for cross-cultural adaptation process were performed properly by an expert committee. Later...

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...

BACKGROUND The 10-item Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale (10-item CD-RISC) is an instrument for measuring resilience that has shown good psychometric properties in its original version in English. The aim of this study was to evaluate the validity and reliability of the Spanish version of the 10-item CD-RISC in young adults and to verify whether it is structured in a single dimension as in the o...

BACKGROUND The Trauma Center Organizational Culture Survey (TRACCS) instrument was developed to assess organizational culture of trauma centers enrolled in the American College of Surgeons Trauma Quality Program (ACS TQIP). The objective is to provide evidence on the psychometric properties of the factors of TRACCS and describe the current organizational culture of TQIP-enrolled trauma centers....