Background Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) is characterized by obsessions and compulsions. Obsessions have been classified as autogenous obsessions and reactive obsessions on the basis of the cognitive theory of Lee and Kwon. The aim of this study was to investigate the differences between autogenous groups (AG) and reactive groups (RG) in terms of metacognition and automatic thoughts, for ...

BACKGROUND Most of the academic teachers use four or five options per item of multiple choice question (MCQ) test as formative and summative assessment. Optimal number of options in MCQ item is a matter of considerable debate among academic teachers of various educational fields. There is a scarcity of the published literature regarding the optimum number of option in each item of MCQ in the fi...

BACKGROUND Graduate and post-graduate education for health professionals is increasingly delivered in an e-learning environment, where automated, continuous formative testing with integrated feedback can guide students' self-assessment and learning. Asking students to rate the certainty they assign to the correctness of their answers to test questions can potentially provide deeper insights int...

This retrospective study compared the performance of preclinical medical students in the multiple-choice question (MCQ) and long essay question components of a comprehensive physiology final examination. During the 3 yr analyzed, 307 students had an average score of 47% (SD 9.9) in the long essay questions and 64% (SD 9.9) in the MCQs. Regression analysis showed a significant correlation (r = 0...

OBJECTIVE The Cockcroft-Gault and Modification of Diet in Renal Disease (MDRD) equations poorly predict glomerular filtration rate (GFR) decline in diabetic patients. We sought to discover whether new equations based on serum creatinine (the Mayo Clinic Quadratic [MCQ] or reexpressed MDRD equations) or four cystatin C-based equations (glomerular filtration rate estimated via cystatin formula [C...

INTRODUCTION Many different strategies exist to try and encourage students to increase their knowledge and understanding of a subject. This study was undertaken to measure the effect of student-based construction of multiple choice questions (MCQs) as a stimulus for the learning and understanding of topics in clinical surgery. MATERIALS AND METHODS The study was carried out at the University ...

AIM Health professionals seeking employment in foreign countries are commonly required to undertake competency assessment in order to practice. The present study aims to outline the development and validation of a written examination for Dietetic Skills Recognition (DSR), to assess the knowledge, skills, capabilities and professional judgement of overseas-educated dietitians against the compete...

This paper presents a new approach for the computer-assisted assessment (CAA) of nonmultiple choice questions (Non-MCQ) type and short answers given by students. The technique is developed for the assessment of text contents of free text answers to questions of factual disciplines. The Automated Text Marker (ATM) prototype automatically breaks down an expertly written model answer, to a closed-...

Objective: In this study, weaimed to investigate metacognitive functions, anger and aggression the relationship in patients with alcohol dependence. It is have information about which beliefs plays a role emergence of people Method: The patient group diagnosed Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD) according DSM-5 (n = 72) control without any psychiatric diagnosis 71) were included study. Sociodemographic ...

El objetivo de la presente investigación fue llevar a cabo primera fase adaptación cultural del Cuestionario Deseo Marihuana (MCQ-12) para muestras colombianas. Este estudio es tipo cuantitativo e instrumental. Inicialmente, se realizó un proceso traducción al español por parte cinco psicólogos, seguido una comparación las mismas, elaboración única versión, su inversa inglés y verificación semá...