Adaptation and Psychometric Evaluation of the Parenting Concerns Questionnaire-Advanced Disease.
...Published in The American journal of hospice & palliative care
When patients with advanced cancer have minor children (age
Measuring Women's Empowerment in the Global South
Over the past two decades, we have seen an explosion in research on the topic of women's empowerment and its related dimensions, yet there remains much to be done in terms of clarifying conceptual pathways and best practices in measurement. This review traces the intellectual and historic context in which women's status and empowerment in lower- an...
Conceptualizing Leader–Member Exchange as a Second-Order Construct
Published in Frontiers in Psychology
To date, scholars have focused a considerable amount of effort on developing valid measures of leader–member exchange (LMX). Although useful, it is unclear whether this proliferation in measurement is warranted. Specifically, although perhaps meaningful conceptual distinctions are made when developing new LMX measures, it is unclear whether these m...
Disease-Specific Anxiety in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: Translation and Initial Validation of a Questionnaire...
Published in Frontiers in Psychology
Background Commonly applied measures of symptoms of anxiety are not sensitive to disease-specific anxiety in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). There is a need for validated instruments measuring COPD-specific anxiety. Therefore, we translated the COPD-Anxiety Questionnaire (CAF) into Danish (CAF-R-DK) and performed an init...
Toward a Standard Measure of Abortion Service Quality-A Stakeholder First Approach
Published in Frontiers in Global Women's Health
Measurement of the quality of abortion services is essential to service improvement. Currently, its measurement is not standardized, and some of the tools which exist are very long, and may deter use. To address this issue, this study describes a process used to create a new, more concise measure of abortion care quality, which was done with the en...
Hostile, Benevolent, Implicit: How Different Shades of Sexism Impact Gendered Policy Attitudes
Published in Frontiers in Political Science
Advances in gender equality and progressive policies are often stymied by cultural sexist systems and individual-level sexist attitudes. These attitudes are pervasive but vary in type—from benevolent to hostile and implicit to explicit. Understanding the types of sexism and their foundations are important for identifying connections to specific soc...
Psychometric analysis of the behavioral assessment screening tool (BAST) in adults with stroke.
Published in Topics in stroke rehabilitation
The purpose of this study was to examine the initial psychometric properties of the Behavioral Assessment Screening Tool (BAST), a self-reported measure of neurobehavioral symptoms, in adults with stroke. We assessed subscale and item-level reliabilities of the five BAST subscales in 75 community-dwelling adults with stroke. We further assessed the...
Psychometric testing of the Brief Sense of Community Scale with older adults in Puerto Rico.
Published in Journal of community psychology
The Brief Sense of Community Scale (BSCS) is a well-validated measure of psychological sense of community (PSOC), but it has yet to be tested with Spanish-speaking older adults. The current study uses data from face-to-face interviews with a non-probability sample of 154 community-dwelling older adults in Puerto Rico. We used confirmatory factor an...
Development and Validation of the Economic Coercion Scale 36 (ECS-36) in Rural Bangladesh.
Published in Journal of interpersonal violence
Assessing progress toward Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 5, to achieve gender equality and to empower women, requires monitoring trends in intimate partner violence (IPV). Current measures of IPV may miss women's experiences of economic coercion, or interference with the acquisition, use, and maintenance of financial resources. This sequential,...
Gender, Power, and Health: Measuring and Assessing Sexual Relationship Power Equity Among Young Sub-Saharan African Wome...
...Published in Trauma, violence & abuse
Gender inequity, including low sexual relationship power (SRP), is an important determinant of intimate partner violence (IPV) and negative sexual, reproductive, and mental health. Different versions of the Sexual Relationship Power Scale (SRPS) are commonly used within youth studies to examine how gender inequities, including controlling behaviors...
