Sentences with phrase «psychometric properties in»

It has been shown to have good psychometric properties in relatives and be associated with patient social adjustment, 32 but its reliability and validity have not been investigated in samples of staff.

The present study suggests that the VADPRS has good psychometric properties in a high - risk sample; however, a study of a referred sample can not establish the sensitivity and specificity of diagnostic method.

The Family Inventory of Resources and Stressors (FIRST) has been shown to have adequate psychometric properties in the assessment of families of children with emotional and behavior disorders (EBD).

The support for the CERQ - Ck's acceptable psychometric properties in the present study has two important clinical implications.

The results of the present study confirmed that the HADS has good psychometric properties in an Italian community sample, and that the HADS scores, especially the general psychological distress one, can be reliably used for assessing age and gender differences.

The aim of this study was to investigate the psychometric properties of the Italian version of the DOCS and address associations with socio - demographical variables, psychometric properties in a community (i.e., non-student) sample, and congruence of factor solutions across non-clinical and patient samples.

Despite these limitations, the results of the present study confirmed that the HADS has good psychometric properties in an Italian community sample as well as in the Italian clinical study [28], and that the HADS scores, especially the general psychological distress one, can be reliably used for assessing age and gender differences.

Screen for Child Anxiety Related Emotional Disorders (SCARED): psychometric properties in an African — American parochial high school sample

Parent and teacher ratings of ADHD symptoms: psychometric properties in a community - based sample

Abstract: BACKGROUND: In this study, we developed a new Korean translation for the shortened version of the Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Scale (DASS - 21) and examined its psychometric properties in a Korean working population.

A further limitation relates to the assessment of psychometric properties in that Cronbach's alpha only was used to test if method of administration differed for internal consistency.

The scale has been used most extensively in endocrinology156 and has good psychometric properties in French.157

Thus the aim of this study was to validate a Greek translation of the structured self - report 8 - item Morisky Medication Adherence Scale (MMAS - 8) and determine its psychometric properties in patients with chronic illnesses.

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«It is imperative, therefore, to identify the unique ways Black adolescents express depressive symptoms, and calibrate existing assessment tools to improve their psychometric property for this population,» the researchers write in the study.

Bjornsdottir G Psychometric properties of the Icelandic NEO-FFI in a general population sample compared to a sample recruited for a study on the genetics of addiction.

Psychometric properties and confirmatory factor analysis of the Student Engagement in School Success Skills survey.

In this context, it must be recognized that rankings based on VAM scores and ratings based on observational protocols will necessarily have different psychometric and statistical properties.

Have their psychometric properties been reliably evaluated by independent experts that are not associated with Pearson, any foundation or university beholding to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, or others with vested interests in corporate education reform?

Methods with recognized psychometric properties were used in the research.

These subscales have been shown to have good psychometric properties and have been used extensively in child development research.31, 33,34 They include both maternal - report and interviewer - report items.

This scale has been shown to have good psychometric properties and has been used extensively in child development research.30 - 32 These subscales include both maternal - report and interviewer - report items.

As mentioned earlier, this test has been used frequently and widely in Iran and yielded satisfactory psychometric properties (Ghassemzadeh et al., 2002, 2005a, 2005b).

The SMFQ is a valid instrument48 with adequate psychometric properties, 49 and a previous study based on the youth@hordaland study found the SMFQ to be unidimensional, supporting the use of the sum score of SMFQ.50 Reliability in the current sample was excellent (range = 0 — 26, ordinal α = 0.95).

Moving in this direction, the main goal of present study was to examine the psychometric properties and factor structure of the Persian version of VOCI in a sample of college students.

Perhaps, it is time for personality disorder researchers to develop a theoretically cogent definition for what properties, especially psychometric, a personality trait cluster must have (or not have) in order to qualify as a personality disorder.

The aim of this study was to investigate psychometric properties of the Persian version of the VOCI in non-clinical samples.

Third, most of the self - report instruments show good psychometric properties, but only a few have been validated in the context of online assessments, for example, the TLFB.42 Finally, the expected high attrition rates in study arms 1 and 2 during the 6 weeks of the interventions will be a major limitation of this study.

The AQoL - 8D is the primary outcome instrument for the economic appraisal, has excellent psychometric properties and has been used in over 80 trials in Australia.

The PHQ - 9 displays excellent psychometric properties and is responsive to change.61 62 The PHQ - 9 has been validated in HD.63

Psychometric properties of three medication adherence scales in patients with rheumatoid arthritis

This study used factor analytic methods to determine the latent structure underlying PLEs, problem behaviours and personal competencies in the general child population, and used item response theory (IRT) to assess the psychometric properties of nine PLE items to determine which items best represented a latent psychotic - like construct (PSY).

The focus throughout this article is on the psychometric properties (reliability, validity and responsiveness) of these scales in different cultures, as well as the processes used to translate the instruments from English into another language.

It has excellent psychometric properties and has been used extensively in clinical and epidemiological research.

A comparison of psychometric properties between the online and paper - based administration of the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale was limited to internal consistency; further research is needed to assess measurement equivalence, noting that the recent international guidelines support the use of the Patient Health Questionnaire - 9 for depression and the General Anxiety Disorder 7 - item scale for anxiety in the CF population.

In addition some authors appeared to assume that a measure can be modified and any psychometric properties from the original measure would still stand; however changing a measure may completely undermine any prior assumptions about its validity.

Reliability and validity in inpatient and outpatient populations have been demonstrated, with high test - retest reliability and moderate to high correlations with discharge diagnoses.34 - 38 The Children's Interview for Psychiatric Syndromes was used because its psychometric properties mimic those of other structured interviews while offering pragmatic advantages, including shorter administration time, a detailed training manual, ease of administration, and a concise response booklet.39 These instruments were administered at baseline to document lifetime and current presence or absence of psychiatric symptoms and diagnoses.

Psychometric properties are generally favourable, but data on the criterion validity of the CES - D in elderly community - based samples are lacking.

The EPDS has been validated in a French sample and good psychometric properties have been reported.145 The original authors suggested a cut - off score of 12.5 as an indication of clinically significant depression but others reported that a score of 10 was the most useful cut - off in a French sample of postnatal women.145

Thus the aims of this systematic review were to: identify self - report measures of adherence that have been used in this context and to critically evaluate the psychometric properties of these measures.

The aim of this study was to test the psychometric properties of the Greek version of the MMAS - 8 in a sample of patients with various chronic illnesses in rural Greece.

The brevity, strong psychometric properties, and ability to discriminate DSM - IV cases from non-cases make the K10 and K6 attractive for use in general - purpose health surveys.

Most measures had no evidence that they had undergone any sort of psychometric evaluation although a small number of researchers had attempted to evaluate some measurement properties but used dubious methods or the property being assessed fell below suitable quality thresholds as determined by Terwee et al. 12 In addition, some authors referenced that their measure had established psychometric properties but then modified the scale or used it with a completely different population without re-examining the properties in the revised scalIn addition, some authors referenced that their measure had established psychometric properties but then modified the scale or used it with a completely different population without re-examining the properties in the revised scalin the revised scale.

Objective To explore psychometric properties of the Violence Against Women instrument in a randomly selected national sample of women (N = 573) aged 18 — 65 years and residing in Sweden.

(PSSS - E), namely the adaptation of the PSSS - K for use in older children, was found to have satisfactory psychometric properties.

Its psychometric properties were adequate and are comparably to those found in an older german group (N = 354, mean age 73; Matschinger et al. in preparation).

The aim the study presented was to confirmatorily test the psychometric properties of the revised version of the German KINDL questionnaire and to exploratorily inspect the course of rehabilitation with regard to QoL in three groups of chronically ill children.

The aim of the current study was to explore selected psychometric properties of VAWI in a randomly selected national sample (n = 573) of women.

Psychometric properties of the WHO Violence Against Women instrument in a female population - based sample in Sweden: a cross-sectional survey

This study examined the psychometric properties of the recently modified German version (WRI - G, 10.0) in a population with work - related musculoskeletal disorders (MSD) in Switzerland.

Psychometric properties of the WHO Violence Against Women instrument in a male population - based sample in Sweden