The Client Assessment of Strengths Interests and Goals (CASIG), a measure that assesses the treatment outcomes of individuals with serious and persistent mental illness, has previously shown adequate psychometric properties with an American sample. Since it assesses quite specific skills and needs, it is necessary to assess its cultural relevance and psychometric characteristics before using it...

The current study was undertaken to develop and evaluate the psychometric properties of a new measure, the Child Sexual Abuse Stereotypes Scale. Scale items were developed using data from two unpublished studies (McCardell, 2008; Mir, 2006), which elicited cultural beliefs and perceptions of adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse among university undergraduates. Two subscales, Emotions (53 i...

background symptoms of gastro-esophageal reflux disease (gerd) affect health-related quality of life (hrqol). when a questionnaire is translated into a new language, linguistic validation is necessary, yet insufficient, unless the psychometric characteristics have been verified. the aim of this study is to document the translation and psychometric validation of the persian translation of the qu...

This study examined the psychometric characteristics of the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) administered under special conditions for nine handicapped groups. Information about test characteristics is central to judging the accuracy and fairness of scores from E.AT special administrations. Four psychometric characteristics were studied: level of test performance, test reliability, speededness, e...

BACKGROUND Symptoms of heartburn has an impact on health-related quality of life (HRQL). When a questionnaire is translated into a new language, a linguistic validation is necessary but not sufficient unless the psychometric characteristics have been verified. The aim is to document the psychometric characteristics of the German translation of the Gastrointestinal Symptom Rating Scale (GSRS) an...

BACKGROUND Patient empowerment has gained considerable importance but uncertainty remains about the best way to define and measure it. The validity of empirical findings depends on the quality of measures used. This systematic review aims to provide an overview of studies assessing psychometric properties of questionnaires purporting to capture patient empowerment, evaluate the methodological q...