background: resilience is a personal trait that can influence the stroke subjects’ attitudes toward future opportunities and facilitate the transitional process and adaptation in them. assessment of this trait in stroke subjects with a standardized tool would promote the rehabilitation protocols and occupational therapy interventions. therefore, the objective of this study was to standardize th...

INTRODUCTION The American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons Standardized Shoulder Assessment Form (ASES), often used in research in Brazil, although translated and adapted to the Portuguese language, had not had its validity and reliability tested yet. OBJECTIVE To assess the validity, reliability, and internal consistency of the ASES-PT for shoulder dysfunction. MATERIALS AND METHODS Fifty indiv...

This study sought to investigate the influence of customer retention on profitability insurance companies in Kenya using Liberty Life Assurance Company Ltd as a proxy. The Specific objectives were examine effect product quality assess service, and establish firms service/product pricing profitability. theories Assimilation, Contrast, Assimilation-Contrast guided this current study. Descriptive ...

in this paper the fuzzy structural reliability index was determined through modeling epistemic uncertainty arising from ambiguity in statistical parameters of random variables. the first order reliability method (form) has been used and a robust genetic algorithm in the alpha level optimization method has been proposed for the determination of the fuzzy reliability index. the sensitivity level ...

Performance appraisal is a process that people can comparetheir perceptions of working with major manufacturers’ perceptions.However, when assessment is done from different sources thatare related with self-assessment, called performance appraisal 360 degree.Given the importance of Performance appraisal by 360 degreefeedback in organizations, a model has been provided for 360 degreeperformance ...

AbstractTherapy-related symptom checklist for children (TRSC-C) was developed as a symptom assessment tool in children receiving chemotherapy. The objective of the present study was to evaluate the validity and reliability of the Persian version of TRSC-C. This cross-sectional study was conducted in 2013-2014 in Tehran, Iran. TRSC-C was translated using backward-forward approach. The content va...

  Background: To validate the Persian version of the simple shoulder test in patients with shoulder joint problems.   Methods: Following Beaton`s guideline, translation and back translation was conducted. We reached to a consensus on the Persian version of SST. To test the face validity in a pilot study, the Persian SST was administered to 20 individuals with shoulder joint conditions. We enrol...

STUDY OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to determine the reliability of two respiratory therapy self-assessment examinations: the written registry examination (WR), and the clinical simulation examination (CSE). We then used reliability coefficients to test the true correlation between the WR and CSE by employing the Spearman-Brown formula to attenuate for unreliability. DESIGN This wa...