objectives : bayley scales of infant & toddler development is a well-known diagnostic developmental assessment tool for children aged 1–42 months. our aim was investigating validity & reliability of this scale in persian speaking children. materials & methods: the method was descriptive-analytic. translation- back translation and cultural adaptation was done. content & face validity of tranlate...

background: with increasing age, the prevalence of chronic diseases increases. since health‑promoting behaviors (hpb) are considered a basic way of preventing diseases, especially chronic diseases, it is important to assess hpb. this study examines the validity and reliability of the health promoting lifestyle profile ii (hplp‑ii). methods: this is a cross‑sectional study which is conducted on ...

abstract background: due to increasing recognition of the importance of death anxiety for understanding human nature, it is important that researchers who investigate death anxiety have reliable and valid methodology to measure. the purpose of this study was to evaluate the validity and reliability of the persian version of templer death anxiety scale (tdas) in family caregivers of cancer patie...

introduction: objective structured clinical examination (osce) is one of the most appropriate methods for assessment of clinical skills.validity and reliability assurance is a mandatory factor for any assessment tool. in shiraz university of medical sciences, medical students’ clinical competences are evaluated by a pre-internship osce. this study is designed to examine the validity and reliabi...

BACKGROUND Yearly formative knowledge testing (also known as progress testing) was shown to have a limited construct-validity and reliability in postgraduate medical education. One way to improve construct-validity and reliability is to improve the authenticity of a test. As easily accessible internet has become inseparably linked to daily clinical practice, we hypothesized that allowing intern...