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Assessment of the dimensionality of the Wijma delivery expectancy/experience questionnaire using factor analysis and Rasch analysis [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Background: Fear of childbirth has negative consequences for a woman's physical and emotional wellbeing. The most commonly used measurement tool for childbirth fear is the Wijma Delivery Expectancy Questionnaire (WDEQ-A).
Creedy, D. K.   +6 more
core   +2 more sources

Turnover experiences in public accounting and alumni's decisions to “give back”

open access: yesContemporary Accounting Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This study examines turnover experiences in public accounting, including the exit phase (from public accountants' initial thoughts of leaving to their exit) and the post‐exit phase (from their exit to the present moment) of the turnover process.
Lindsay M. Andiola   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Applying Item Response Theory (IRT) Modeling to an Observational Measure of Childhood Pragmatics: The Pragmatics Observational Measure-2 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Assessment of pragmatic language abilities of children is important across a number of childhood developmental disorders including ADHD, language impairment and Autism Spectrum Disorder.
Cordier, Reinie   +5 more
core   +2 more sources

Threat to fixation and vision‐related quality of life in patients with open‐angle glaucoma

open access: yesActa Ophthalmologica, EarlyView.
Abstract Purpose We aimed to investigate the association between overlapping threat to fixation (TTF) and vision‐related quality of life (VRQoL) in patients with manifest open‐angle glaucoma (OAG). Methods Overall, 316 patients with manifest OAG were recruited from the glaucoma outpatient department of Skåne University Hospital, Malmö, Sweden, between ...
Charlotte Almer, Dorothea Peters
wiley   +1 more source

HEDS Discussion Paper 09-15: Developing preference-based health measures: using Rasch analysis to generate health state values [PDF]

open access: yes
Background/aims: Condition specific measures may not always have independent items, and existing techniques of developing health state values from these measures are inappropriate when items are not independent.
Brazier, J.E.   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Deconstructing therapy outcome measurement with Rasch analysis of a measure of general clinical distress: the Symptom Checklist-90-Revised [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
Rasch analysis was used to illustrate the usefulness of item-level analyses for evaluating a common therapy outcome measure of general clinical distress, the Symptom Checklist-90-Revised (SCL-90-R; Derogatis, 1994).
Beltyukova, Svetlana A.   +5 more
core   +1 more source

Impact of mono‐ or multitherapy on ocular surface health and quality of life after 5 years of follow‐up in the Glaucoma Intensive Treatment Study (GITS)

open access: yesActa Ophthalmologica, EarlyView.
Abstract Aim To evaluate the impact of initial mono‐ versus multitherapy on the ocular surface and related quality of life after 5 years follow‐up in the Glaucoma Intensive Treatment Study (GITS). Method The study included patients with primary open‐angle glaucoma and pseudoexfoliation glaucoma who completed 5‐year follow‐up in GITS.
Gauti Jóhannesson   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Combining Rasch and cluster analysis: a novel method for developing rheumatoid arthritis states for use in valuation studies [PDF]

open access: yes
Purpose: Health states that describe an investigated condition are a crucial component of valuation studies. The health states need to be distinct, comprehensible, and data-driven.
Brazier, J.   +2 more
core   +3 more sources

Constructing three emotion knowledge tests from the invariant measurement approach [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Background. Psychological constructionist models like the Conceptual Act Theory (CAT) postulate that complex states such as emotions are composed of basic psychological ingredients that are more clearly respected by the brain than basic emotions.
Burin, Debora Ines   +2 more
core   +5 more sources

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