Development and validation of the Multimorbidity Treatment Burden Questionnaire (MTBQ) [PDF]
OBJECTIVE: To develop and validate a new scale to assess treatment burden (the effort of looking after one's health) for patients with multimorbidity. DESIGN: Mixed-methods. SETTING: UK primary care.
Chaplin, Katherine+5 more
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Assessment of reliability and validity of the Spanish version of the Nursing Students’ Perception of Instructor Caring (S-NSPIC) [PDF]
The care that clinical instructors demonstrate to students is essential for their education, considering the strong impact it has on their future relationships with patients, relatives, and other health professionals.
Fuente Ginés, Máximo de la+5 more
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Constrained Wiki: The WikiWay to Validating Content [PDF]
The “WikiWay” is the open editing philosophy of wikis meant to foster open collaboration and continuous improvement of their content. Just like other online communities, wikis often introduce and enforce conventions, constraints, and rules for their content, but do so in a considerably softer way, expecting authors to deliver content that satisfies the
DI IORIO, ANGELO+3 more
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A Novel Method for Curating Quanti-Qualitative Content [PDF]
This paper proposes a Researcher-in-the-Loop (RITL) guided content curation approach for quanti-qualitative research methods that uses a version control system based on consensus. The paper introduces a workflow for quanti-qualitative research processes that produces and consumes content versions through collaborative phases validated through consensus
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Background: With the increasing complexity of care, people with disabilities and supportive significant others (SSO) must often coordinate key aspects of their own care, but no validated scale currently exists to comprehensively characterize the ...
Brian P. Johnson, Mark V. Johnston
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Development and Initial Validation of a Questionnaire to Measure Health-Related Quality of Life of Adults with Common Variable Immune Deficiency: The CVID_QoL Questionnaire. [PDF]
BACKGROUND: Generic health status quality of life (QoL) instruments have been used in patients with common variable immune deficiency (CVID). However, by their nature, these tools may over- or underestimate the impact of diseases on an individual's QoL.
Abeni, D+8 more
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Content validity of conation assessment [PDF]
Abstract Content validity reflects the representation and relevance of a set of items used to measure a concept carried out through rational analysis of the contents of the test through expert judgment. This validity refers to the accuracy of the measurement based on the contents of the instrument to ensure that the scale items used have
N. Muliana+2 more
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Scale development and validation are critical to much of the work in the health, social, and behavioral sciences. However, the constellation of techniques required for scale development and evaluation can be onerous, jargon-filled, unfamiliar, and ...
Godfred O. Boateng+5 more
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On-sample water content measurement for a complete local monitoring in triaxial testing of unsaturated soils [PDF]
To provide a complete local monitoring of the state of an unsaturated soil sample during triaxial testing, a local water content measurement device was adapted to a triaxial device comprising the measurement of local displacements (Hall effect ...
Cui, Yu-Jun+3 more
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Testing and comparing two self-care-related instruments among older Chinese adults [PDF]
OBJECTIVES:The study aimed to test and compare the reliability and validity, including sensitivity and specificity of the two self-care-related instruments, the Self-care Ability Scale for the Elderly (SASE), and the Appraisal of Self-care Agency Scale ...
Ding, Xianfei+7 more
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