The Sleep Hygiene Index (SHI) has shown adequate psychometric properties in samples from several countries but not been validated Spanish. aims of the study were to translate original (i.e., English) version SHI into Spanish and evaluate this instrument factor structure, internal consistency reliability, concurrent, predictive, discriminant validity) adults. overall sample, comprising 548 unive...

The current project reports on an initial investigation into the factor structure of the Infant Crying Questionnaire (ICQ), a measure designed to assess parental beliefs about infant crying, in a sample of 259 primiparous mothers. Exploratory factor analyses yielded evidence for a five-factor structure to the ICQ, with two factors that may be conceptually viewed as infant-oriented beliefs regar...

OBJECTIVE Establishing the validity of abbreviated developmental scale (ADS-1)criterion, regarding the language and hearing domain for 4- to 5-year-old children in the city of Popayan(2012). METHODS This work involved a validation study of diagnostic tests for 96 children whose language and hearing were assessed by ADS-1 within a growth and development program and through speech therapy asses...

Introduction: The aim of this study was to ascertain whether the testing format of an OSPE (Objective Structured Practical Examination) in conservative dentistry (sixth semester) predicts the scores on the practical section of the state examination (11th semester) in the same subject. Taking general student profiles into consideration (score on the school-leaving exam [Abitur], score on the pre...

ÐISO/IEC 15504 is an emerging international standard on software process assessment. It defines a number of software engineering processes and a scale for measuring their capability. One of the defined processes is software requirements analysis (SRA). A basic premise of the measurement scale is that higher process capability is associated with better project performance (i.e., predictive valid...

BACKGROUND Assessments of risk for pressure ulcers in critical care patients may not include important predictors. OBJECTIVE To construct risk-prediction models of hospital-acquired pressure ulcers in intensive care patients and compare the models' predictive validities with validity of the Braden Scale. METHODS Data were collected retrospectively on patients admitted to intensive care from...

The purpose of this research was to identify the factors affecting research practices development (RPD) regarding entrepreneurship in agricultural higher education, case study Islamic Azad University, Khouzestan Province, Iran.  Faculty members in Islamic Azad University, Khouzestan Province were considered as statistical population. The sample size based on Cochran formula was determined (n=21...

INTRODUCTION The douleur neuropathique 4 (DN4) questionnaire is a widely used tool for diagnosis of neuropathic pain (NP). The aim was to translate, culturally adapt, and validate the DN4 questionnaire in Arabic. METHODS A systematic translation process was used to translate the original English DN4 into Arabic. After the pilot study, the Arabic version was validated among patients with chron...