Background: The role of online health communities (OHCs) in patient empowerment is growing and has been increasingly studied in recent years. Research has focused primarily on individualistic conception of patients' empowerment, with much less attention paid to the role of OHCs in the development of patients' collective empowerment. Although OHCs h...
The roof slab of a nuclear reactor supports all the components and sub-systems. It needs to resist the seismic loads in accordance with load-carrying criteria. The static stress analysis of the reactor roof slab reveals that high-stress concentration was present in the pump penetration shell (PPS) that supports the primary sodium pump. This paper p...
Uvod: Modificiran klinični test senzorične interakcije in ravnotežja (ang. modified clinical test of sensory interaction and balance – mCTSIB) je bil razvit za sistematično ocenjevanje sistemov pri uravnavanju ravnotežja. Izvaja se lahko v treh stoječih položajih, v vsakem v štirih pogojih z določenim vrstnim redom. Stabilometrija je veljaven posto...
Published in Frontiers in Public Health
Published in Frontiers in Psychiatry
Background: The Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) has been a widely used instrument measuring sleep quality among people living with HIV (PLWH) in China while its psychometric properties have yet to be examined in this population. We aimed to assess the reliability and validity of the Chinese version of PSQI in PLWH and identify factors associa...
Published in Frontiers in Psychology
The general purpose of this work is 2-fold, to validate scales and to present the methodological procedure to reduce these scales to validate a rating scale for the student evaluation of teaching in the context of a Polytechnic Higher Education Institution. We explored the relationship between the long and short versions of the scale; examine their...
Published in Journal of interpersonal violence
We investigated the relationships among men's sexual coercion, men's performance of mate retention behaviors, and their partner's relationship satisfaction in Brazil (Study 1) and the United States (Study 2). In addition, we adapted the Sexual Coercion in Intimate Relationships Scale (SCIRS) to the Brazilian context (Escala de Coerção Sexual em Rel...
Published in Laterality
Studies of cerebral lateralization often involve participants completing a series of perceptual tasks under laboratory conditions. This has constrained the number of participants recruited in such studies. Online testing can allow for much larger sample sizes but limits the amount of experimental control that is feasible. Here we considered whether...
Published in Journal of transcultural nursing : official journal of the Transcultural Nursing Society
The aim of this article is to describe the modification of an instrument to secure cultural validity using cognitive interviewing to adequately examine and address health issues in a diverse population. Cultural experts (n = 8) on the Lakota reservation were identified to provide input on cultural items of an instrument. Two rounds of cognitive int...
Published in Journal of clinical nursing
To conduct a construct validity test on a clinical nurse specialist core competency scale. Clinical nurse specialists' competency development dates back to the late 20th century; however, there is scarcity of competency descriptions from outside of North America. Furthermore, little knowledge is available on the previous research-driven efforts to ...
