validity and reliability of the research instruments

... discriminative validity Figure Flow diagram of the participants in the validity and reliability analyses Flow diagram of the participants in the validity and reliability analyses Page of (page number ... fitted with a prosthesis may differ in how much they use the prosthesis and in the type of activities they can perform with their prosthesis [7] Procedure of translation The procedure of cross-cultural ... differ in their locomotor capabilities and high correlations between the LCI and the TUG test and between the LCI and the EQ-5D The reliability tests showed good internal consistency and the test-retest...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 18:20

... pain" syndromes) of at least moderate intensity (i.e ≥ out of 10) were included, and the test-retest reliability was not inves- The reliability and validity of the Spanish version of the DN4 questionnaire ... each item to the measurement error in the instrument Inter-rater reliability was assessed by the agreement of the results obtained by raters A and B for each item and the total score of the DN4 questionnaire ... diagnosis, and the area under the curve (AUC) calculated by the trapezoid method and its significance level were estimated The 95% confidence intervals (95% CI) of the estimators of the cut-off point...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 22:20

... investigate the reliability and validity of the Iranian version of the Pediatric Quality of Life InventoryTM 4.0 (PedsQLTM 4.0) Generic Core Scales in children Methods: A standard forward and backward ... and benchmarking We have previously reported the initial reliability and validity of the Iranian version of the PedsQLTM 4.0 as a generic instrument to measure HRQOL of a general population of ... analysis and conclusions difficult and vague, the current study, aimed to investigate reliability and validity of the Iranian version of the PedsQLTM 4.0 generic core scale among a large number of...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... pain" syndromes) of at least moderate intensity (i.e ≥ out of 10) were included, and the test-retest reliability was not inves- The reliability and validity of the Spanish version of the DN4 questionnaire ... each item to the measurement error in the instrument Inter-rater reliability was assessed by the agreement of the results obtained by raters A and B for each item and the total score of the DN4 questionnaire ... diagnosis, and the area under the curve (AUC) calculated by the trapezoid method and its significance level were estimated The 95% confidence intervals (95% CI) of the estimators of the cut-off point...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 16:20

... higher with the OES than with the DASH questionnaire The aim of the present study was to develop and evaluate the reliability, validity and responsiveness of the Dutch language version of the OES ... after the therapy to increase the possibility of observing a change between the first administration and third administration of the OES The OES refers to the period of the past weeks”, and the ... dividing the difference in patients’ scores between the first administration and third administration of the OES by the standard deviation of the score from the first administration The mean standardised...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 07:20

... maintained their normal treatment regimen throughout the 2-week study, yielding few changes) The aim of the present study, therefore, was to assess the reliability, validity and responsiveness of the ... conducted for the IRLS using TREAT RLS and TREAT RLS data, and results confirmed the reliability, validity and responsiveness of the IRLS [19] The IRLS consists of 10 questions concerning the patient's ... patients with moderate and severe RLS) The combination of these results indicates the clinical validity of the RLSQoL in mild, moderate and severe groups [12] The responsiveness of the RLSQoL to change...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... at weeks 0, 1, 2, and and then q4w until the end of the study or withdrawal; the SF36 was administered at weeks 0, 4, and 12 and at the end of the study or withdrawal; and the WPS-RA was administered ... changes, and the reliability of the survey were evaluated in subjects enrolled in a clinical trial for the treatment of active RA they capture the patient's perspective of the disease process and the ... proportion of people with RA drop out of the workforce due to their disability, and yet they still need to work around the house or someone has to it for them; therefore, the impact of the condition...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 14:21

... performed with the assistance of relatives who accompanied them and of rheumatology nurses at the clinics The patients were asked whether they understood the 20 items from the eight domains of the Thai ... ICC of the Thai HAQ was 0.89 (95% CI 0.84 to 0.92) For each domain of the Thai HAQ, the estimates of ICC ranged from 0.77 to 0.87 The mean and SD of each domain of the Thai HAQ at baseline and ... initiated the concept and design of the study and collected, analyzed, and interpreted the data and prepared the manuscript and finalized it in accordance with the recommendations JW, SU, PH, NK, and...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 14:22

... conceived and conducted the study, and drafted the manuscript LLH assisted with the design of the questionnaire and participated in the design of the study JKP assisted with the design of the questionnaire ... the questionnaire and the study, and advised on the statistical analysis LAB assisted with the design of the questionnaire, and participated in the design and coordination of the study All authors ... was obtained from the child’s parent and the study was approved by the Human Research Ethics Committees of The Children’s Hospital at Westmead and The University of Sydney The study was conducted...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 08:20

... statistical analyses and gave scientific input in the analysis of the results and in the writing of the manuscript AB: gave scientific input in the design of the study and in the writing of the manuscript ... read and approved the final manuscript MH: took part in all parts of the design and development of the AF6 and in the writing of the manuscript BN: participated in the data analysis, in the preparation ... in the preparation of tables and writing of the manuscript KK: gave scientific input regarding the statistical methodology, the analysis of the results and in the writing of the manuscript 11...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 18:20

... statistical analyses and gave scientific input in the analysis of the results and in the writing of the manuscript AB: gave scientific input in the design of the study and in the writing of the manuscript ... read and approved the final manuscript MH: took part in all parts of the design and development of the AF6 and in the writing of the manuscript BN: participated in the data analysis, in the preparation ... in the preparation of tables and writing of the manuscript KK: gave scientific input regarding the statistical methodology, the analysis of the results and in the writing of the manuscript 11...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 16:20

... them to contribute their best to the job o Monetary benefit and compensation The payroll system is designed on the basis of the volume of output produced And the outcome and productivity of the ... recruitment and the promotion The promotion is the move of the staff when the company initiates the whole process The real internal recruitment is than a move of the employee initiated by the employee ... research design and methodology of the research 1.1 Rationale of the research Being the official member of the WTO in January 2007, Vietnam has become an attractive destination for the foreign investors...

Ngày tải lên: 14/10/2014, 01:10

... clinical research and epidemiological surveys Total score for DLQI-J The eigenvalue of the first component was much higher than those of the other components, and the percentage of the total ... Departments of Dermatology at hospitals were enrolled in the validation study, regardless of their treatment history or their current method of treatment The investigator explained the purpose of the research ... "because of your (disease name)" to sharpen the focus on the burden of a specific disease The questionnaire together with the changes described above was then submitted to the authors of the original...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... reliability of the scales The scales have been included in the paper in their entirety to expedite further testing of the instruments by other researchers These preliminary findings indicate that the ... 'Impact of treatment on life'; and 'Impact of treatment on future' These items were retained because the values did not indicate high levels of redundancy and given the pilot stage of the research ... inter-item correlations with the other items and participants often reported that they did not understand the question The scale therefore became a 22-item scale After removing these items, a Cronbach's...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:21

... a candidate for the degree of Master of Arts (TEFL) accept the requirements of the College relating to the retention and use of Master of Arts Thesis deposited in the library In terms of these ... students reduce the reliability of the test scores On the basis of these results, the author provides some suggestions towards the improvement of the test quality The reliability of the final achievement ... composed of chapters Chapter 1- Introduction briefly states the rationale, aims and research questions, scope of the study, theoretical and practical significance of the study, method of the study and...

Ngày tải lên: 10/04/2013, 14:46

... performed on the second day of the study (one in the morning and the other in the afternoon) have been used to assess the test daily reliability The fifth 6-MWT, conducted on the same day as the maximal ... is observed until the end of the test (Table 4) The 6-MWT intensity corresponded to 79.6 Ϯ 4.5% of ˙ the VO2max, 85.8 Ϯ 2.5% of the HRmax, and 78.0 Ϯ 6.3% ˙ of the HRreserve The 6-MWT VO2 was ... coefficients of variation (CV) and standard deviations (SD) between the first and second 6-MWT (T1–T2), the second and third 6-MWT (T2–T3), the third and fourth 6-MWT (T3–T4), and the fourth and fifth...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 20:20

... with the ordinary meaning given to the terms of the treaty in their context and in the light of its object and purpose.” That is the reason why for example the preamble and the annexes of the ... Europe) and the CSCE (Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe) in the second half of 1980s, and in particular, the outcomes of the CSCE Meeting on the Protection of the Environment (Sofia, ... legal right, the essential features of which are the perfect equality of all riparian States in the use of the whole course of the river and the exclusion of any preferential privilege of any one...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 14:20

... University of York ** University of Sheffield  The views expressed in this report are the authors’ and not necessarily reflect those of the Department for Education and Skills © The University of Sheffield ... Research Report No 711       A Systematic Review of the Research Literature on the Use of Phonics in the Teaching of Reading and Spelling  Carole J Torgerson ... Effect size, as calculated by the reviewers (mean of word recognition and word attack measures; also mean of comprehension measures, mean of spelling measures, and synthetic versus analytic, where...

Ngày tải lên: 02/06/2014, 09:22

... 7:48 consent, the research assistant then provided a full description of the project to the patient and then sought written informed consent for participation The research assistant then collected ... and EQ-5D items the frequency of each possible response was computed to identify whether responses were distributed across the range of possible scores or whether they were at either end of the ... Committee of the Princess Alexandra Hospital, and the Medical Research Ethics Committee of The University of Queensland Analysis The Kappa statistic was used to describe the agreement between assessment...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 18:20

... 2.2 k then T has a fixed point in C This result generalizes Lifshitz’s Theorem in case of a Hilbert space and shows that the theorem admits certain perturbations in the behavior of the norm of successive ... 1.2 F and the Lipschitz constant of T tends to if ε ↓ For more information on the structure of fixed point sets see 4, and references therein In 1973, Goebel and Kirk introduced the class of uniformly ... nonexpansive mappings,” in Handbook of Metric Fixed Point Theory, W A Kirk and B Sims, Eds., pp 49–91, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands, 2001 12 Fixed Point Theory and Applications...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 20:20