OBJECTIVE To assess the properties of validity and reliability of instruments used to assess satisfaction in a broad sample of health service user satisfaction studies, and to assess the level of awareness of these issues among study authors. DESIGN Examination and analysis of 195 papers published in 1994 in 139 journals. The following databases were searched: British Nursing Index, CINAHL, E...

OBJECTIVES To identify patient-assessed health instruments specific to the knee and review evidence for reliability, validity and responsiveness. METHODS Instruments were identified through systematic searches of the literature. Information relating to instrument content, patient population, reliability, validity and responsiveness was extracted from published papers. RESULTS The 16 instrum...

This study sought evidence of validity for the Reading Competence Test of Words and Non-This study sought evidence of validity for the Reading Competence Test of Words and Non-words (in Portuguese: Teste de Competência de Leitura de Palavras e Pseudopalavras or TCLPP). This test evaluates silent reading of isolated items by asking the student to determine if presented items of written image-wor...

To ensure that researchers and practitioners make valid interpretations from children's self-reports, evidence must demonstrate that the self-report has appropriate psychometric properties. The Child Occupational Self Assessment (COSA) is a self-report of occupational competence and value for everyday activities designed to involve children in identifying goals and assessing outcomes. Five hund...

OBJECTIVE The Mandarin Tone Identification Test (MTIT) is a new test designed to assess the tone identification abilities of children with hearing impairment (HI). Evidence for reliability and sensitivity has been reported. The present study aimed to evaluate the known-groups and concurrent validity of the MTIT. DESIGN The MTIT and Mandarin Pediatric Speech Intelligibility test (MPSI) were ad...

The purpose of this instrumental study was to show how to conduct a study aimed at obtaining content validity evidence in the test construction/adaptation process. An applied perspective was used, and this paper presents the content validity analysis of the Spanish adaptation of the State-Trait Cheerfulness Inventory trait form (STCI-T). This paper illustrates the stages required to analyze con...

BACKGROUND The reliability and validity of instruments used to survey health-care providers' views about and experiences with research evidence have seldom been examined. METHODS Country teams from ten low- and middle-income countries (China, Ghana, India, Iran, Kazakhstan, Laos, Mexico, Pakistan, Senegal and Tanzania) participated in the development, translation, pilot-testing and administra...

Introduction: Standardized assessments are widely used by speech pathologists in clinical and research settings to evaluate the language abilities of school-aged children and inform decisions about diagnosis, eligibility for services and intervention. Given the significance of these decisions, it is important that assessments have sound psychometric properties. Objective: The aim of this system...