... 12(page number not for citation purposes)Health and Quality of Life OutcomesOpen AccessResearchEvaluation of the reliabilityandvalidityof the Medical Outcomes Study sleep scale in patients ... results showed the reliabilityandvalidity of the translated versions, they do not allow the cross-cul-tural validityof the MOS-Sleep to be fully addressed.Cross-cultural validity is a very ... item 12 of the"sleep adequacy" dimension of the Australian, Hungarian and UK English versions, and item 4 of the South African,item 6 of the "somnolence" dimension of the...
... theory and principles of Language Testing, major characteristics of a good test, especially testvalidityand reliability, achievement test and statistic methods used in interpreting test results. ... of major characterictics of a good test with the major focus on test reliability and validity. Finally, in Section 2.4, the achievement testand its types are explored.2.1 The importance of ... kinds of achievement tests: final achievement testand progress achievement test. Final achievement tests are those administered at the end of a course of study. They may be written and administered...
... andvalidityof the test performed with an unweighted and weighted limb.MethodsSubjectsBased on published information and our expectation thatthe angle of first reversal of the pendulum test ... Pendulousness of the legs as a diagnostic test. Neurology 1951, 1:18-24.5. Bajd T, Vodovnik L: Pendulum testing of spasticity. J Biomed Eng1984, 6:9-16.6. Bohannon RW: Variability andreliabilityof ... reliability, andvalidityof the pen-dulum testand the simplicity and portability of the Pol-hemus tracking system provide support for its use, theconvergent validityof the measures obtained with the...
... and thus increasing the likelihood of adequa tecase management in TB programs.Despite the availability of standard instruments forassessing HRQoL [6-8], the feasibility; reliability; and validity ... to a wide -range of patients particularly countries in sub-Saharan Africawith a high burden of TB and HIV.Our study was not without limitations including lack of test re -test reliability for ... in the design of thestudy, critical review of the manuscript, and final approval of the version tobe published. AK participated in the design of the study and critical review of the manuscript....
... outlook on life and drive, per-ception of health and thermoregulation for oncologicalpatients. We followed development of the instrument bytesting reliability, andvalidityof construct and content, ... stage of cancer, surgery and chemotherapy see table 2. The data onCFS-D, State aR and EORTC are published elsewhere.Statistics of both parts of the studyA reliability analysis of all 12 items of ... for all participants of study 1 with SPSS 15.0 to checkfor item-item and item-total-correlation of r ≥ 0.40 and aCronbach's-α -reliability of r ≥ 0.70. The test- retest reliabil-ity was...
... the original SF-36.Tests of scaling assumptionsTests of scaling assumptions determine the appropriate-ness of including an item in a particular scale and the validity of using the summated ... C, Chaithiraphan S: Reliability of Thai version of SF-36 questionnaire for the eval-uation of quality of life in cardiac patients. Journal of the MedicalAssociation of Thailand 2000, 83:S130-136.2. ... functioning and quality of life of depressivepatients with 12 weeks of psychiatric care. Journal of the MedicalAssociation of Thailand 2005, 88:1261-1266.3. van Griensven F, Chakkraband M, Thienkrua...
... con-flict-affected populations and have been widely used and tested for reliabilityandvalidity in a number of countries[6,7,13,23,28-34]. The HTQ and HSCL-25 are consistentwith the Diagnostic and Statistical ... Test- retest showed a good intraclasscorrelation of 0.61 for PCS and 0.68 for MCS. The principal component analysis indicated strongconstruct validityand concurred with the results of the validity ... in which 9% of respondents were in response option 1 or 2. Reliability The ICC test- retest reliability results from the smaller sur-vey (N = 82) were 0.61 for PCS and 0.68 for MCS and soshowed...
... analysis. Test- retestvalues of subgroups and total scores were compared withthe Wilcoxon signed rank test (two-tailed). The test- retest reliability was calculated on the answers of 65 parentswho ... test- retest reliability from time one to time two. The results of our studyshowed excellent to good testand retest reliability [23].Family financial status, educational status, age of child,number ... CentralPage 1 of 7(page number not for citation purposes)Health and Quality of Life OutcomesOpen AccessResearchTurkish version of impact on family scale: a study ofreliabilityand validity Nilgun...
... percentage of missing data in the GSRS and QOLRAD, respectively, were as follows: South Africa,2.7% and 2.7%; Germany, 6.4% and 12.7%; Hungary,8.8% and 8.8%; Italy, 6.3% and 1.1%; Poland, 0.7% and 0.7%; ... internal consistency reliabilityof the GSRS was 0.43–0.87 andof the QOLRAD 0.79–0.95. Test- retest reliabilityof the GSRS was 0.36–0.75 andof the QOLRAD 0.41–0.82. GSRSAbdominal pain domain correlated ... the test- retest reliability of the GSRS was not acceptable.ConclusionIn conclusion, the German, Hungarian, Italian, Polish,Spanish and Afrikaans versions of GSRS and QOLRAD arereliable and...
... assessment of the heath-related quality of life of parents and families could contribute toward theirhealthcare needs [3,21,22].This study presents the reliabilityandvalidityof the Bra-zilian ... Street, Montreal, QC, H3A 2B2, Canada and 3Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine, Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning, College of Architecture, Texas A&M University, ... the rationale and design of the study, ACS and CMV performed the sta-tistical analysis and interpretation of the data, ACS, SMP and PJA drafted the manuscript. All authors read and approved the...
... percentage of scores at the floor and ceiling and Cronbach's alpha are shown in Table 2. All theself-report scales and proxy-report scales exceeded theminimum reliability standard of 0.70. ... young adolescent'squality of life and mental health.The objective of the current paper was to evaluate reliabil-ity andvalidityof the Norwegian translation of the Ped-sQL™ (version 4.0 ... CentralPage 1 of 9(page number not for citation purposes)Health and Quality of Life OutcomesOpen AccessResearchMeasuring health-related quality of life in young adolescents: Reliability and validity...
... Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2011, 9:15http://www.hqlo.com/content/9/1/15Page 7 of 9 RESEARCH Open Access Reliability andvalidityof Thai versions of theMOS-HIV and SF-12 quality of life ... and 0.003 respectively: MHS and MCS werenot significant (0.092 and 0.104 respectively).DiscussionThe results of this initial test provide evidence foracceptable reliabilityandvalidityof ... Chariyalertsak et al.: Reliabilityandvalidityof Thaiversions of the MOS-HIV and SF-12 quality of life questionnaires inpeople living with HIV/AIDS. Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 20119:15.Submit...
... the 10 items of the scale.The reliabilityof the Spanish version of the 10-itemCD-RISC was simil ar to that of the original versio n(Cronbach’s a of the original version = 0.85 andof theSpanish ... original version in English. The aim of this study wasto evaluate the validityandreliabilityof the Spanish version of the 10-item CD-RISC in young adults and to verifywhether it is structure ... originalversion in English. The convergent validity was analyzed by testing whether the mean of the scores of the mentalcomponent of SF-12 (MCS) and the quality of sleep as measured with the Pittsburgh...
... [http://www.pedsql.org].23. Raat H, Landgraf JM, Oostenbrink R, Moll HA, Essink-Bot ML: Reliability and validityof the Infant and Toddler Quality of Life Questionnaire (ITQOL)in a general population and respiratory ... con-sistency reliability, test- retest reliability, item-subscalecorrelations, construct validityand concordance betweenchild self-reports and parent proxy-reports.MethodsSubjects and SettingsSubjects ... For the total sample and the patients of differentage groups, the ICCs were close to or higher than therecommend standard of 0.8, indicating a good test- retest reliability of the scale. This...
... understand the HRQOL of children with cancer living in mainland China. The objective of this study was to investigate the feasibility, reliability, andvalidityof the Chinese mandarin version of ... health-related quality of life in children with cancer living in mainlandChina: feasibility, reliabilityandvalidityof the Chinese mandarin version of PedsQL 4.0 Generic Core Scales and 3.0 Cancer ... and the low level of schooling in the sample. Although Cronbach’s alpha represents the lower bound of the reliabilityof a measurement instrument, and is a conservative estimate of actual reliability...