introduction: to evaluate the reliability, validity and feasibility of the persian version of the pediatric quality of life inventory (pedsql™ 4.0tm 4.0) generic core scales in iranian healthy students ages 7-15 and chronically ill children ages 2-18. methods: we followed the translation methodology proposed by developer to validate persian version of pedsql™ 4.0tm 4.0 generic core scales for c...

OBJECTIVE: The goal of the study was to understand resilience and interpersonal tolerance among teaching professionals. TOOLS: Bharathiar University Resilience Scale [Cronbach Alpha 8.74, Validity 0.8], Interpersonal scale (IPTS) [Cronbachs alpha 0.88, 0.90 cross-cultural validation a personal information form were used. SAMPLE: conducted on professionals in Namakkal District. Among them, 60 fe...

  Background: American Orthopedic Foot and Ankle Society Score (AOFAS) is a reliable and reproducible measurement tool which is commonly used for the assessment of foot and ankle conditions. In this study we aimed to translate and assess the psychometric properties of the Persian version of AOFAS questionnaire. Methods: In this study, we enrolled 53 patients with ankle and hindfoot conditions....

background: the need for assessment of oral health related quality of life has been increased over the last decades. the aim of this study was to develop a persian version of the oral health impact profile (ohip)-14 and to evaluate its reliability and validity for its use in persian-speaking communities. methods: the original version of the ohip-14 was translated into the persian language using...

background: visualattention is known as acritical base for learning.thepurpose of the present study was to design, develop and evaluate the test-retest and internal consistency reliability as well as face, content and convergent validity of thecomputer- based selective visual attention test (sevat) for healthy first-grade school children.   methods :in thefirst phase of this study,the computer-...

introduction: measuring tools in each study must be evaluated themselves. the goal of present study was designing, validating, and determining the reliability of some scales, which are used for measuring concepts of behavior change theory/models. materials & methods: this study was a descriptive one in which, at first literature review and need assessment were done. then designed tools were val...

BACKGROUND:According to the literature, Greek questionnaire on study of quality life children and adolescents undergoing brace treatment (BRACE questionnaire, abbreviated as BrQ) is informative reliable, which confirmed by its validation in different countries. This necessitates creation ofanadopted Russian version validation.
 AIM:To perform localization treatment.
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background: as a disease of motor nervous system (motor neuron  disease), amyotrophic  lateral  sclerosis (als)  has  a great  impact  on  several  aspects  of  quality  of  life (qol). generic questionnaires of qol do not address all the especial features  of als and  therefore  translation  and  validation of disease specific questionnaires such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis assessment  qu...