STUDY OBJECTIVES Methods used to express the severity of oxygen desaturation during polysomnography include the average oxygen saturation (AO2), lowest oxygen saturation (LO2), and the percent of the total time with oxygen saturation level lower than 90% (T<90%). We wanted to determine which one of these methods is least variable during different hours of monitoring. DESIGN Prospective, obser...

BACKGROUND Little is known about factors influencing professionals' use of wikis. OBJECTIVE We developed and validated two questionnaires to assess health care professionals' intention to use wiki-based reminders for the management of trauma patients. METHODS We developed questionnaires for emergency physicians (EPs) and allied health professions (AHPs) based on the Theory of Planned Behavi...

OBJECTIVE The main aim of this study was to investigate the factor structure and psychometric properties of the Brief Illness Perception Questionnaire (BIPQ) in Turkish cancer patients. METHODS This methodological study involved 135 cancer patients. Statistical methods included confirmatory or exploratory factor analysis and Cronbach alpha coefficients for internal consistency. RESULTS The ...

The purpose of this study is to develop a scale that reveals factors adversely affecting the university preparatory class students’ motivation for the English language and English language classes. The sample included 454 student participants. The researchers used a 6-point Likert-type scale with 50 items to collect the research data. The results of the exploratory factor analysis indicated tha...

conclusions the iranian version of the dsi had good psychometric properties and can be used to assess symptoms of hemodialysis patients. results the mean age of patients was 50.4 (sd = 15.72) years and % 61.1 of patients were male. the most commonly reported symptoms were fatigue, being irritable and nervous. divergent validity was mostly supported by the pattern of association between dsi and ...

The reliability of the reactive strength index (RSI) and time to stabilization (TTS) during maximal-effort plyometric depth jumps was examined. Twenty-two subjects performed three depth jumps from a height of 30 cm. Measures such as height of jump (JH), ground-contact time (CT), RSI, and TTS were obtained and analyzed for reliability using Cronbach alpha reliability coefficient and intraclass c...

Bu çalışmada öğretmenlerin uzaktan eğitim hakkındaki görüşlerini belirleyebilmek için geçerli ve güvenilir bir ölçek geliştirmek amaçlanmıştır. Çalışmada nicel araştırma yaklaşımı kapsamında tarama yöntemi kullanılmıştır. Çalışmanın örneklemini 2019-2020 eğitim-öğretim yılında veren farklı branşlardaki 490 öğretmen oluşturmaktadır. veri toplama aracı olarak 46 maddeden oluşan görüş belirleme öl...

AIM The aim of the study was to evaluate reliability and validity of different questionnaires and predict related causes, as concomitant factors in assessing different aspects of children's dental anxiety. STUDY DESIGN Children were interviewed on dental anxiety, dispositional risk factors and satisfaction with the dentist after dental treatment had been accomplished. Parents were interviewed...

PURPOSE We prospectively designed a Taiwan cancer-related fatigue cognition questionnaire, version 1.0 (TCRFCQ-V1.0), for Taiwanese patients with cancer and investigated the reliability and validity of this questionnaire. RESULTS The completion rate of the TCRFCQ-V1.0 was high (97% of the patients completed all items), and the rate of missing data was low (0.2%-1.1% for each item). Moreover, ...