background: examining educational environment (academic and clinical) by means ofa valid, reliable and comprehensive questionnaire is a major key inachievinga highly qualified student – oriented curricula. the persian translation of ambulatory care learning education environment measure-acleem questionnaire has been developed to support this goal, and its psychometrics has beenexplored in this ...

Article history: Received 20 March 2009 Received in revised form 7 May 2009 Accepted 2 June 2009 Available online 26 June 2009 According to the temporal resolution power (TRP) hypothesis, higher TRP as reflected by better performance on psychophysical timing tasks accounts for faster speed of information processing and increased efficiency of information processing leading to better performance...

BACKGROUND Psychometric tests predict conversion of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) to probable Alzheimer's disease (AD). Because the definition of clinical AD relies on those same psychometric tests, the ability of these tests to identify underlying AD pathology remains unclear. OBJECTIVE To determine the degree to which psychometric testing predicts molecular evidence of AD amyloid patholog...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to review articles related to the psychometric properties of the Perceived Stress Scale (PSS). METHODS Systematic literature searches of computerized databases were performed to identify articles on psychometric evaluation of the PSS. RESULTS The search finally identified 19 articles. Internal consistency reliability, factorial validity, and hypothesis ...

abstract aim and background: the purpose of the present study was to examine the psychometric properties of multiple sclerosis self-efficacy scale (msss) in a sample population of iranian patients. methods and materials: this research is a descriptive-correlational study with a population of patients afflicted with ms from north khorasan and hamedan provinces. a number of 120 patients, who had ...

background: pragmatics is appropriate use of language across a variety of social contexts  that  provides accurate interpretation   of   intentions.   the   occurrence    of   the right hemisphere lesions can interfere with pragmatic abilities, and particularly with the processing of nonliteral speech acts. methods: since the objective of this study was to assess different  aspects of pragmatic...

the purpose of this study was to design a valid questionnaire to the iranian culture for dementia diagnosis and more specifically in its early stage.a cross-sectional study was conducted in 2012 in memory clinic of roozbeh hospital and iranian alzheimer association in tehran in 2012. among 235 subjects, there were 72 patients with alzheimer's disease (ad), 137 patients with other types of demen...

a valid questionnaire is a precursor to a sound measurement process. this study examined the psychometric properties of the persian version of the revised competitive state anxiety inventory – 2 (csai-2r). a total of 131 female taekwondo athletes (mean age =12.37 ± 2.52) from damghan completed csai-2r at competition venues. confirmatory factor analysis was used to analyze the structure of csai-...