The Speech Prosody Tests: A Narrative Review
Introduction: Speech prosody is one of the important communication components that describes the paraliguistic features of speech. The tests are suitable tools for quantifying speech and language skills, and of necessary needs for evaluation, screening ...
Fatemeh Fekar-Gharamaleki +3 more
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ABSTRACT Parent–child biobehavioral synchrony, or the concordance of behavior and physiological indicators between individuals, is theorized to support children's social development; however, this relationship has yet to be investigated in autistic children.
Carly Moser +5 more
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Doing less but getting more: Improving forced-choice measures with Item Response Theory [PDF]
Forced-choice tests, despite being resistant to response biases and showing good operational validities, have psychometric problems if scored traditionally. These questionnaires are generally longer than their normative counterparts, and more cognitively
Brown, Anna
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Systematic review of health-related work outcome measures and quality criteria-based evaluations of their psychometric properties [PDF]
Objective To examine the state of psychometric validation in the health-related work outcome literature. Data Sources We searched PubMed, PubMed Central, CINAHL, Embase (plus Embase Classic), and PsycINFO from inception to January 2016 using the ...
Doogan, Catherine +5 more
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A Systematic Review Evaluating Psychometric Properties of Parent or Caregiver Report Instruments on Child Maltreatment: Part 1: Content Validity [PDF]
Aims: Child maltreatment (CM) is a serious public health issue, affecting over half of all children globally. Although most CM is perpetrated by parents or caregivers and their reports of CM is more accurate than professionals or children, parent or ...
Aunio, Pirjo +4 more
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Pharmacokinetic profiles of sertraline in pregnancy as a predictor of postpartum depressive symptoms
Aim To characterize pharmacokinetic changes of sertraline and its metabolite during pregnancy and postpartum, and their relationship to maternal postpartum depressive symptoms. Methods This was a prospective observational, longitudinal study of pregnant women with a major depressive disorder treated with sertraline (N = 185 women, 205 pregnancies ...
Sílvia M. Illamola +8 more
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Professional issues in maternal mental health scale (PIMMHS): The development and initial validation of a brief and valid measure [PDF]
Introduction:The life-threatening consequences of perinatal mental health problems (PMHP) are well documented. Midwives are ideally placed to effectively identify women at risk and facilitate early intervention. However, a multitude of factors contribute
Jarrett, Patricia +2 more
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Aims To determine the prevalence of non‐adherence to antihypertensive medicines and to identify demographic and behavioral factors associated with non‐adherence in subjects enrolled in the May Measurement Month (MMM) 2023, as part of the permanent public health action Hunting the silent killer.
Valerija Bralić Lang +12 more
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Psychometric properties of two Islamic measures among young adults in Kuwait: the Sahin-Francis Scale of Attitude toward Islam and the Sahin Index of Islamic Moral Values [PDF]
Given the importance of developing reliable and valid measures in the psychology of religion, and recent growing interest in developing empirical studies within an Islamic context, the present study discusses the properties of two specially designed ...
Al-Failakawi, Fahad +2 more
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Abstract The current study aimed to investigate whether negative student–teacher relationships and within‐class perceptions of the class climate at the individual level, and positive class climates at the classroom level in fifth grade, were associated with traditional bullying and cyberbullying perpetration 1 year later, in sixth grade, in a sample of
Robert Thornberg +3 more
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