Backhouse, S. Chiavaroli, N. G. Schmid, K. L. McKenzie, T. Cochrane, A. L. Phillips, G. Jalbert, I.
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BMC Medical Education
BackgroundCredentialing assessment for overseas-educated optometrists seeking registration in Australia and New Zealand is administered by the Optometry Council of Australia and New Zealand. The aim was to review the validation and outcomes of the written components of this exam to demonstrate credentialing meets entry-level competency standards.Me...
Wu, Jialan Chen, Siman Wen, Huangliang Yi, Yayan Liao, Xiaoyan
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BMC Health Services Research
BackgroundChinese government launched a pilot study on public long-term care insurance (LTCI) recently. Guangzhou is one of the fifteen pilot cities, officially started providing LTCI in August 2017. An in-depth analysis of experimental data from the pilot city may provide suggestions for developing a fair and effective LTCI system. This study aime...
Lundström, Mats Kugelberg, Maria Montan, Per Nilsson, Ingela Zetterberg, Madeleine Pesudovs, Konrad Behndig, Anders
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Eye and Vision
BackgroundThe Swedish National Cataract Register (NCR) collects data on cataract surgery outcomes during March, including patient-reported outcomes using the Catquest-9SF questionnaire for over 11 years. Previous studies from NCR have shown that the preoperative visual acuity has improved over time. The main purpose of this study was to evaluate th...
Takasaki, Hiroshi Hall, Toby
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Physiotherapy theory and practice
Background: The Patient Attitudes and Beliefs Scale (PABS) is a self-reporting questionnaire with 12 items on a 5-point Likert scale for patient's attitude towards shared decision making but its adaptation into Japanese has not been undertaken. Objectives: To develop a Japanese version of the PABS (PABS-J) through translation into Japanese and eval...
Batchelder, Laurie Fox, Diane Potter, Caroline M. Peters, Michele Jones, Karen Forder, Julien E. Fitzpatrick, Ray
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Health and Quality of Life Outcomes
BackgroundThe aim of the current study was to evaluate the structural validity of the 20-item long-term conditions questionnaire (LTCQ) and to explore a potential short-form version of the scale using Rasch analysis.MethodsData were collected through postal surveys (February 2016–January 2017) from a sample of 1,211 participants diagnosed with at l...
Huang, Yi-Jing Chen, Cheng-Te Sørensen, Kristine Hsieh, Ching-Lin Hou, Wen-Hsuan
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Patient education and counseling
We aimed to develop a health literacy battery for three phases of stroke (HL-3S). Three Rasch-based item banks corresponding to health care, disability prevention, and health promotion in the acute, subacute, and chronic phases of stroke, respectively, were developed by a multidisciplinary stroke team. To construct the HL-3S, a panel of clinical an...
Riklikiene, Olga Blackman, Ian Bendinskaite, Irmina Henderson, Julie Willis, Eileen
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Journal of nursing management
The aim was to translate and validate the Missed Nursing Care in Infection Prevention and Control Survey for its use in the Lithuanian context. A convenience sample of 331 nurses was surveyed. The study instrument explored missed care in the context of infection prevention and control practices. Rasch analysis was undertaken using Winsteps® Rasch m...
Hung, Hsiao-Ying Hung, Su-Pin Chang, Ying-Ju
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BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
BackgroundAntepartum activity restriction (AAR) is a common recommendation given to women at risk for preterm delivery. However, such treatment has been shown to cause heavy emotional burdens on the women receiving it since it requires them to face many challenges derived from the intervention. Nevertheless, current existing scales lack effective i...
Fridberg, Helena Wallin, Lars Wallengren, Catarina Kottorp, Anders Forsman, Henrietta Tistad, Malin
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BMC Health Services Research
BackgroundImplementation of person-centred care (PCC) is a challenging undertaking. Thus, a call has been issued for a robust and generic instrument to measure and enable evaluation of PCC across settings and patient groups. This study aimed to develop a generic questionnaire measuring patients’ perceptions of PCC. Further aims were to evaluate its...
Fenwick, Eva K. Man, Ryan E. K. Gan, Alfred T. L. Aravindhan, Amudha Tey, Ching Siong Soon, Hasita Jian Tai Ting, Daniel S. W. Yeo, San I. Y. Lee, Shu Yen Tan, Gavin
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Translational Vision Science & Technology
Purpose A validated questionnaire assessing diabetic retinopathy (DR)- and diabetic macular edema (DME)-related knowledge (K) and attitudes (A) is lacking. We developed and validated the Diabetic Retinopathy Knowledge and Attitudes (DRKA) questionnaire and explored the association between K and A and the self-reported difficulty accessing DR-relate...
