INTRODUCTION Questionnaires on Functional Health Status (FHS) are part of the assessment of oropharyngeal dysphagia. OBJECTIVE To conduct a systematic review of the literature on the psychometric properties of English-language FHS questionnaires in adults with oropharyngeal dysphagia. METHODS A systematic search was performed using the electronic databases Pubmed and Embase. The psychometri...

INTRODUCTION 1 EARLY PROBLEMSMATTER 2 Progress in Psychiatric Diagnosis in Young Children 3 IMPORTANT CONSIDERATIONS IN YOUNG CHILD ASSESSMENT 4 Reliance on Caregivers for Information 4 Sensitivity to Contextual Influences, Including Caregiving Contexts 6 DOMAINS OF DEVELOPMENT 9 SELECTING AN ASSESSMENT APPROACH AND TOOL 11 Types of Tools 11 Understanding Psychometric Properties 12 Reliability ...

The Lasater clinical judgment rubric (LCJR) is a standardized scoring method to assess student clinical judgment. The aims of this study were to (a) develop a scenario-specific clinical judgment assessment tool guided by the LCJR and (b) evaluate the new assessment tool's psychometric properties and ability to assess clinical judgment. Content validity was established using an expert panel. Exp...

PURPOSE Translate, adapt the language, and assess the psychometric properties of the Mental Vulnerability Questionnaire (MVQ) in a Portuguese population sample of young adults. DESIGN AND METHODS A psychometric validation study was performed. The sample comprised 166 undergraduate students. Factor analysis was applied to extract three indicators. FINDINGS The MVQ showed divergent validity w...

BACKGROUND We explored psychometric properties of the Osteoporosis Assessment Questionnaire 2.0 in terms of reliability, validity, and responsiveness with generic, clinical, demographic, and preference-based data collected from a population of postmenopausal women with osteoporosis. METHODS The Multiple Outcomes of Raloxifene Evaluation study was a randomized, placebo-controlled, multinationa...

It has recently been pointed out by several authors that the psychometric assessment of the elderly patient has largely been geared to, or preoccupied with, the solution of diagnostic problems, measuring deterioration or discover ing early dementia (Post, 1966; Inglis, :962). Therefore, it appears that little attention has been paid to the use of psychometric tests in the broad area of prognosi...