INTRODUCTION The IRES-3 questionnaire (Indicators of rehabilitation status, version 3) was developed to evaluate the rehabilitation effect in patients with psychosomatic, cardiac, orthopedic, oncologic, neurologic, gastroenterological and other disorders. AIM The aim of the present study was to validate the Bulgarian version of IRES-3 and assess its reliability and internal consistency. MAT...

BACKGROUND Inappropriate lifestyles have been responsible for the leading causes of mortality. The purpose of the Fantastic Lifestyle Questionnaire is to help physicians involved in health prevention to identify and assess their patients' lifestyles. OBJECTIVE To translate and validate the Fantastic Lifestyle Questionnaire for use with young adults. METHODS The process of translation into P...

Introduction: Food Craving Questionnaire (FCQ) is a popular tool in assessing food craving which consisted of a trait (FCQ-T) and state (FCQ-S). The aim of the current study was to provide reliability and validity of the Persian version of FCQ-Trait-reduced (FCQ-T-r 15-items) in overweight and obese women. Material and methods: The subjects were 168 overweight and obese women who were consented...

background: social health is considered as a significant dimension of health and, hence, its assessment is vital in health planning. within this context, this study aimed to develop a valid and reliable scale for measuring individual’s social health in iran. to do so, an exploratory sequential mixed method was used. methods: to establish the item pool and primary scale, 30 interviews with exper...

Reliability is the quantification of the consistency of results from a measurement procedure across replications. By far, Guttman’s Lambda 3 or coefficient alpha, as a lower bound to the reliability, is the most frequently used and reported index of reliability because of its simplicity in computation and accessibility in statistical programs. However, coefficient alpha tends to be negatively b...

OBJECTIVE To translate the Childhood Autism Rating Scale into Brazilian Portuguese and to determine the initial psychometric properties of the resulting version (CARS-BR). METHODS The methodology used to produce an adequate version included translation, backtranslation and evaluation of semantic equivalence. In order to determine its psychometric properties (internal consistency, validity and...