background and purpose: respecting confidentiality of documents and medical information about individuals, as one of the most important issues in medicine, guarantees patients' trust in the health system. therefore, this study is an attemp to design a valid and reliable tool to assess knowledge and attitudes of medical students about  the principles of  confidentiality and disclosure of patient...

BACKGROUND Evaluating health needs includes measures of the impact of state of health on the quality of life. This entails evaluating the psychosocial aspects of health. To achieve this, several tools for measuring the quality of life related to oral health have been developed. However, it is vital to evaluate the psychometric properties of these tools so they can be used in a new context and o...

INTRODUCTION The Cambridge Depersonalisation Scale is meant to capture the frequency and duration of depersonalisation symptoms over the 'last 6 months'. METHODS In order to develop a Greek version of CDS scale, the CDS scale was translated in Greek by 2 psychiatrists. Then, the Greek version of CDS scale was back-translated by a person who did not knew the original English version. The back-...

background and objective: bullying behavior is one of the growing problems in many schools. availability and access to a valid and reliable instrument for measuring this behavior is necessary for intervention and to reduce side effects. therefore, this study has been carried out with middle school students with the aim of validating the bullying perpetration and victimization scales of olweus b...

introduction: the script concordance test (sct) is one the best tools used to evaluate clinical reasoning in ill-defined clinical situations. the aim of this study was to demonstrate sct application in otolaryngology residency training. methods: a 20 item otolaryngology sct containing 60 questions was administered to 26 otolaryngology residents. the test was prepared by two otolaryngologists fa...

BACKGROUND Most current triage tools have been tested among hospital nurses groups but there are not similar studies in university setting. In this study we analyzed if a course on a new four-level triage model, triage emergency method (TEM), could improve the quality of rating in a group of nursing students. METHODS This observational study was conducted with paper scenarios at the Universit...

Objective The study's aim was to develop and standardize a Korean version of the University of California San Diego Performance-based Skills Assessment (K-UPSA), which is used to evaluate the daily living function of patients with schizophrenia. Methods Study participants were 78 patients with schizophrenia and 27 demographically matched healthy controls. We evaluated the clinical states and ...

We present the initial validation of a two-factor structure of Immediate Post-Concussion Assessment and Cognitive Testing (ImPACT) using ImPACT composite scores and document the reliability and validity of this factor structure. Factor analyses were conducted for baseline (N = 21,537) and post-concussion (N = 560) data, yielding "Memory" (Verbal and Visual) and "Speed" (Visual Motor Speed and R...

Adults need to be able to process infants' emotional expressions accurately to respond appropriately and care for infants. However, research on processing of the emotional expressions of infant faces is hampered by the lack of validated stimuli. Although many sets of photographs of adult faces are available to researchers, there are no corresponding sets of photographs of infant faces. We there...