The question of how observable variables should be associated with latent structures has been at the center area psychometrics. A recently proposed alternative model to traditional factor retention methods is called Exploratory Graph Analysis (EGA). This method belongs broader family network psychometrics which assumes that associations between observed are caused by a system in have direct and...

objective: the psychometric properties and factor structure of the persian padua inventory washington state university revision (pi-wsur), a measure of obsessive- compulsive phenomena, was examined in a non-clinical sample of 348 iranian university students. method: the pi-wsur was translated into persian, and its back translation was controlled by the author inventory. a pilot study based on c...

objective: the aim of this study is to explore the confirmatory factor analysis results of the persian adaptation of statistics anxiety measure (sam), proposed by earp. method: the validity and reliability assessments of the scale were performed on 298 college students chosen randomly from tabriz university in iran. confirmatory factor analysis (cfa) was carried out to determine the factor stru...

introduction: research has asserted mcq items using three response options (one correct answer with two distractors) is comparable to, and possibly preferable over, traditional mcq item formats consisting of four response options (e.g., one correct answer with three distractors), or five response options (e.g., one correct answer with four distractors). some medical educators have also adopted ...

objective: the aim of this study was to evaluate the psychometric properties of the persian version of chicago multi-scale depression inventory (cmdi) in iranian subjects. method: cmdi was translated into persian according to the standard method. two hundred and sixty two medical students (of whom, 114 were re-tested 5-10 days after the first test), archibald 40 patients with major depressive e...

Although medical education is a broad field of research and practice, it has come to be dominated by issues of assessment. Reasons for this emphasis range from the focus on accountability for educational outcomes to the established relationship between assessment and student motivation. Researchers in the domain, especially in North America, have largely focused on methodologies taken from psyc...

In order to improve patient safety, health services are looking to other industries' experiences and as a result are adopting a systems approach to learning from error, rather than simply focusing the blame on the individual. However, in health care the individual will remain an important contributor to safety and this paper looks at other literatures besides health to consider a number of indi...

Background: Since a significant part of deaths due to traffic accidents are preventable in the pre-hospital phase, therefore it seems necessary have an instrument identify and measure factors affecting it. This study aims develop psychometrically assess prehospital mortality accidents. Methods: The is mixed qualitative-quantitative study, including systematic review, interviews, Delphi, psychom...

  Background   The aim of this study was to investigate the validity and reliability of the Persian version of Burn Specific Health Scale-Brief (BSHS-B) in pregnant women suffering from burns.   Materials and Methods   This cross-cultural psychometrics study was done in 2015 to 2016 and included 410 pregnant burned patients. Participants completed BSHS-B. The face, content and construct validit...

BACKGROUND Pencil-and-paper examination formats, and specifically the standard, five-option multiple-choice question, have often been questioned as a means for assessing higher-order clinical reasoning or problem solving. This study firstly investigated whether two paper formats with differing number of alternatives (standard five-option and extended-matching questions) can test problem-solving...