Liao, Hung-Chang Huang, Cheng-Yi Wang, Ya-Huei
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Medical education online
This study intended to develop and assess the psychometric properties of a caring behavior scale on healthcare students and providers (CBS-HSP) in a Taiwanese population. After a literature review was conducted and an expert panel was consulted for item generation, 104 items for the CBS-HSP scale were derived on a nine-point Likert scale, with 9 in...
Gil-Llario, María Dolores Morell-Mengual, Vicente Fernández-García, Olga Castro-Calvo, Jesús Ballester-Arnal, Rafael
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Journal of applied research in intellectual disabilities : JARID
This paper presents psychometric properties of an instrument for the Assessment of Sexual Behaviour and Knowledge of people with Intellectual Disability (ASBKID), other-reported by professionals who are in daily contact with them. Assessments of 236 individuals with intellectual disability were obtained from 100 professionals. Confirmatory factor a...
Figueiredo, Patrícia Moreira, Diana Ramião, Eduarda Barroso, Ricardo Barbosa, Fernando
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Clinical child psychology and psychiatry
Callous unemotional (CU) traits refer to specific deficits in affective experience and interpersonal style, characterized by absence of guilt, constrictive display of emotion and failure to show empathy, callous use of others for one's own gain. The Inventory of Callous-Unemotional Traits (ICU) was developed to measure CU traits in children and ado...
Robles-Bello, María Auxiliadora Sánchez-Teruel, David
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Child: care, health and development
The Family-Centred Practices Scale (FCPS) assesses the degree to which staff in early childhood intervention and development centres use this therapeutic approach. However, there is no adaptation of this scale to families of children with Down syndrome, which is one of the most prevalent intellectual disabilities in early intervention. To validate ...
Latteur, Alizée Larøi, Frank Bortolon, Catherine
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Psychologica Belgica
Paranoia consists of unfounded beliefs that harm will be caused with intent to hurt the subject. Paranoid thoughts exist on a continuum of severity from severe forms in several psychological pathologies to milder forms in a significant minority of individuals of the general population ( Freeman, 2007 ). It can be measured using several types of que...
Karagiannopoulos, Christos Griech, Sean Leggin, Brian
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International Journal of Sports Physical Therapy
Background Currently available hand-held dynamometers (HHD) offer a more objective and reliable assessment of muscle force production as compared to a manual muscle test (MMT). Yet, their clinical utility is limited due to high cost. The ActivForce (AF) digital dynamometer is a new low-cost HHD with unknown psychometric properties, and its utilizat...
Afshari, Somayeh Ameri, Hosein Daroudi, Rajab Ali Shiravani, Maryam Karami, Hassan Akbari Sari, Ali
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The Journal of asthma : official journal of the Association for the Care of Asthma
The EQ-5D is the most popular generic preference-based instrument used for asthma patients. This study aims to explore the psychometric properties of the EQ-5D-5L instrument in patients with asthma and identify the EQ-5D-5L scores in these patients. PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science, Google Scholar and CEA Registry were searched with English language ...
Weyn, Sofie Van Leeuwen, Karla Pluess, Michael Lionetti, Francesca Goossens, Luc Bosmans, Guy Van Den Noortgate, Wim Debeer, Dries Bröhl, Anne Sophie Bijttebier, Patricia
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Assessment
Children differ in their sensitivity to positive and negative environmental influences, which can be measured with the Highly Sensitive Child (HSC) scale. The present study introduces the HSC-21, an adaptation of the original 12 item scale with new items and factor structure that are meant to be more informative than the original ones. The psychome...
Talja, Tiina Rantanen, Anja Koivisto, Anna-Maija Fröjd, Sari Ikonen, Riikka Joronen, Katja
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Scandinavian journal of caring sciences
Depressive mood is a common problem among children in Western countries. Professionals in school and other health services have an important role in identifying children at increased risk for depression. The Short Mood and Feelings Questionnaire (SMFQ) is a widely used screening tool, but its 13 items still make it quite time-consuming to complete....
Sarrar, Lea Goth, Kirstin
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Frontiers in Psychiatry
With the upcoming ICD-11, the diagnostic guidelines for personality disorders will change fundamentally to a dimensional severity concept, including the evaluation of several domains of personality functioning. Moreover, the lifetime perspective will allow this diagnosis even in early adolescence, providing the opportunity for early detection and i...
