PURPOSE To produce a physician and scientific workforce that advances high-quality research and culturally competent care, academic medical centers (AMCs) must assess their capacity for diversity and inclusion and leverage opportunities for improvement. The Diversity Engagement Survey (DES) is presented as a diagnostic and benchmarking tool. METHOD The 22-item DES consists of eight factors th...

OBJECTIVE We aimed to develop a questionnaire assessing fears and beliefs of patients with knee OA. DESIGN We sent a detailed document reporting on a qualitative analysis of interviews of patients with knee OA to experts, and a Delphi procedure was adopted for item generation. Then, 80 physicians recruited 566 patients with knee OA to test the provisional questionnaire. Items were reduced acc...

UNLABELLED Th aim of the study was to assess this course as perceived by the 6th year dentistry students. MATERIAL AND METHODS Applying and validating the "Dundee Ready Education Environment Measure (DREEM)" for the first time in Romania. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION The reliability of the test according to Cronbach alpha method, which measures the internal consistency of a test, was 0.87 (Cronba...

PURPOSE To construct a multidimensional questionnaire that analyses the epileptic child quality of life from the parental point of view. METHOD The pilot questionnaire was composed of 157 questions distributed in several dimensions. Fifty-one epileptic children's parents answered the questionnaire. The instrument was tested in its diverse properties: frequency of endorsement, homogeneity (Cro...

Based on the concepts of Virtual Corporation and Gradual Virtualization, we develop an instrument to measure the degree of virtualization (DV) of organizations. Virtual corporations are networks of independent companies, who cooperate to satisfy customer needs by combining their distinct core competencies. Hence, an instrument to measure the DV of a network has to integrate characteristics of c...

A metaschema is an Abstraction Network of the UMLS's Semantic Network (SN) obtained from a connected partition into its collections of semantic types. A metaschema can support comprehension, visualization and navigation of the SN. In this paper, a methodology is presented to evaluate and compare two given metaschemas, based on their structural properties. This methodology was applied to the top...

The study explores to identify the psychological factors of technostress in organizations. The data was collected from 100 employees holding middle managerial positions in various IT organizations, based in India. The Cronbach‟s alpha of the questionnaire was found to be 0.786 & Pearson correlation was 0.912 (p<0.001). The factor analysis of the component „psychological factors of technostress‟...

Introduction: Substance use disorder is one of the most critical social problems in Iran. For this disorder, weneed a proper assessment tool based on our indigenous culture. Objective: This study assesses the factor structure and psychometric properties of 10-item and 20-item Persian versions of Drug Abuse Screening Tests (DAST-10 and DAST-20). Materials and Methods: In this cross-sectional s...

In Pakistan the growing number of higher education institutions and the ever-increasing number of students, forces the institutions to build such an environment which completely satisfies these students’ expectations. This paper uses a modified version of Keaveney and Young (1997) satisfaction model and tests on a sample of students of COMSATS Abbottabad, Pakistan. The study is based on primary...

in pakistan the growing number of higher education institutions and the ever-increasing number of students, forces the institutions to build such an environment which completely satisfies these students’ expectations. this paper uses a modified version of keaveney and young (1997) satisfaction model and tests on a sample of students of comsats abbottabad, pakistan. the study is based on primary...