Career readiness is an important key that must be possessed by students before entering the business world/industrial world. In effort to understand level of student career readiness, a valid and reliable instrument needed. So purpose this research test validity reliability instrument. This uses quantitative approach with development validation methods. The sample in study was 344 Vocational Hi...

BACKGROUND Physical activity self-report instruments in the US have largely been developed for and validated in White samples. Despite calls to validate existing instruments in more diverse samples, relatively few instruments have been validated in US Blacks. Emerging evidence suggests that these instruments may have differential validity in Black populations. PURPOSE This report reviews and ...

BACKGROUND Communication skills are essential for physicians to practice Medicine. Evidence for the validity and domain specificity of communication skills in physicians is equivocal and requires further research. This research was conducted to adduce evidence for content and context specificity of communication skills and to assess the usefulness of a generic instrument for assessing communica...

BACKGROUND Little is known about reliability and validity of instruments measuring externalizing mental health problems in immigrant ethnic minority youths. AIMS To provide an overview of studies on measurement properties of instruments measuring these problems in immigrant ethnic minority youths, their methodological quality and results. METHODS A systematic review of the literature in MED...

This study aimed to identify instruments for measuring children's attitudes towards their peers with disabilities that are suitable for use in epidemiological studies and to report on their psychometric properties. A literature review was conducted to identify instruments measuring at least one of the three components of children's attitudes (affective, behavioural, or cognitive measures) towar...

BACKGROUND Patient satisfaction is crucial for the acceptance, use, and adherence to recommendations from teleconsultations regarding health care requests and triage services. OBJECTIVES Our objectives are to systematically review the literature for multidimensional instruments that measure patient satisfaction after teleconsultation and triage and to compare these for content, reliability, v...

The purpose of this study was to examine the psychometric properties of the Portuguese versions of the Sport Anxiety Scale and of the Brief COPE, as well as of the Cognitive Appraisal Scale in Sport Competition-Threat Perception, namely regarding their factor structure validity and internal consistency. Participants were 550 male and female athletes of several sports, aged 15- to 35-years-old (...

BACKGROUND Psychometric properties include validity, reliability and sensitivity to change. Establishing the psychometric properties of an instrument which measures three-dimensional human posture are essential prior to applying it in clinical practice or research. METHODS This paper reports the findings of a systematic literature review which aimed to 1) identify non-invasive three-dimension...

abstract introduction: standardized tests in speech therapy mostly focus onlanguage structure rather than the use of language in social context. so, there is a clear need for instruments to assess pragmatic aspects of language. children’s communicationchecklist (ccc) and its revised version, ccc-2, was developed to address this need, however, its psychometric features are unknown in iran. the c...