OBJECTIVE Public understanding of chronic kidney disease (CKD) is important to ensure informed participation in CKD prevention programs. This study aimed to develop and to test the psychometric profile of the CKD Screening Index that measures patient's knowledge, attitudes, and practices regarding CKD prevention and early detection. METHODS A cross-sectional design was implemented and a total...

INTRODUCTION The stigma against people with mental illness is very high. In Spain there are currently no tools to assess this construct. The aim of this study was to validate the Spanish version of the Community Attitudes towards Mental Illness questionnaire in an adolescent population, and determining its internal consistency and temporal stability. Another analysis by gender will be also perf...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Many residency programs offer training in evidence-based medicine (EBM). However, these curricula often fail to achieve optimal learning outcomes, perhaps because they neglect various contextual factors in the learning environment. We developed and validated an instrument to characterize the environment for EBM learning and practice in residency programs. METHODS An ...

Purpose: The main goals of this study were to translate and assess the psychometric properties and reliability of the Portuguese version of the SAQOL-39 in a group of chronic aphasia patients. Methods: We used the translation and retroversion method from the original scale to ensure conceptual uniformity. The instrument was administered to 33 aphasia patients. Internal consistency was assessed ...

BACKGROUND This article aims at testing of psychometric characteristics of the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) and the Defense Style Questionnaire - 40 (DSQ-40) in a sample of Croatian professional fire-fighters, so as to justify their use in Occupational Health. A pioneer effort to interrelate mental states and psychological job demands, ranked using the WAI questionnaire, was made as well. ...

INTRODUCTION Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) for its simplicity is potentially useful for screening depressive and anxiety disorders in post-stroke patients. To our best knowledge HADS hasn't been assessed in the Polish population of post-stroke survivors. AIM Assessment of clinical value of HADS in screening depressive and anxiety disorders in post-stroke patients. METHOD Pati...

OBJECTIVES to verify the face validity, criterion-related validity and the reliability of two distinct forms of presentation of the instrument Measurement of Adherence to Treatment, one being for ascertaining the adherence to the use of oral antidiabetics and the other for adherence to the use of insulin, as well as to assess differences in adherence between these two modes of drug therapy. M...

PURPOSE Patients receiving treatment for benign prostate hyperplasia may have persistent storage symptoms. There has been increasing debate on the precision and accuracy of the International Prostate Symptom Score questionnaires over other questionnaires in evaluating all the complaints of lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS). The aim of this study was to perform the validity and reliability ana...

OBJECTIVES Although gender is often acknowledged as a determinant of health, measuring its components, other than biological sex, is uncommon. The Bem Sex Role Inventory (BSRI) quantifies self-attribution of traits, indicative of gender roles. The BSRI has been used with participants across cultures and countries, but rarely in an older population in Brazil, as we have done in this study. Our p...