Background: Beliefs of women play a very important role in efficacy of screening for cervical cancer. Therefore, it is necessary to investigate their points of view using appropriate tools with suitable validity and reliability. It seems that the Pap Smear Belief Questionnaire (PSBQ) can assess the attitudes and beliefs of women towards screening for Pap smear. Aim: This study aimed to evaluate...

Objectives: The aim of the present study was to reconstruct determining validity, and score The Stanford Diagnostic Reading Test fourth edition (SDRT4) in the sixth grade students. Methods: The population of the study was all sixth grades of the 19 educational districts from Tehran, 571 students (255 boys and 316 girls) were selected by using a random multi-cluster sampling. The data were an...

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OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to evaluate the reliability and validity of the the Chinese version of the Oral Health Impact Profile for TMDs (OHIP-TMDs-C). STUDY DESIGN The OHIP-TMDs was initially translated and cross-culturally adapted to Chinese following international guidelines; then subsequently validated for the psychometric characteristics of reliability and validity. In total, ...

objectives: indicators of oral health-related quality of life (ohrqol) in children are widely adopted to evaluate the effects of oral problems. recently, the scale of oral health outcomes for 5-year-old children (soho-5) was developed based on the children’s self-reports. this study aimed to evaluate the validity and reliability of the persian version of the questionnaire in a sample of iranian...

background: the jefferson scale of attitude toward physician-nurse collaboration (jsapnc) has been used to measure the attitude regarding collaboration between nurses and physicians. the aim of this preliminary study was to test the reliability and validity of an arabic version of the questionnaire and adapt it for use in palestine. methods: forward-backward translation of guidelines provided i...

Introduction: Validity and reliability are essential criteria for clinical competency assessment tests. This study was conducted to determine the validity and reliability of the Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) for nursing pre-internship. Methods: This methodological study was done on 36 pre-internship Nursing students of  Golestan  University of Medical Sciences in 2...

educators have been preoccupied with individual differences in learning for quite a long time. one way of addressing these differences has been a focus on learning styles. understanding students’ learning styles is important for the quality of instructional design. a major problem in measuring the learning styles of learners of english as a foreign language (efl) is the development of a valid a...

The present study assessed the construct validity and reliability of a researcher-constructed psycho-motor mechanism scale based on the communicative theory of translation proposed by PACTE (2003). In doing so, the necessary criteria for designing the scale were obtained by a thorough review of related literature on previously constructed scales in error analysis or holistic ones. Moreover, in ...