[PDF] Top 20 A reliability and validity study of the Palliative Performance Scale

... format. Palliative care clini- cians from hospices, in-hospital consultation services and palliative out-patient clinics provided us with their patient case ...of palliative care experts, three ... See full document

... this scale does not focus on the need for hospitalization (which is of poor definability and does not help in defining performance) but instead as- sesses food/fluid intake and level of consciousness ...to ... See full document

... a scale of 20 items was created from the draft scale of 33 items concerning ...This scale was then administered to 546 students in the ...construct validity of the scale was checked in ... See full document

... convergent validity, the overall score was correlated with PPS which is a tool measuring physical status [22] and the correlation was weaker than expected because this tool is only focused on physical ...other ... See full document

... Outcome measurement in advanced illness brings par- ticular problems. Physical function-a central component in most quality of life and outcome measures-is often not the patient’s main priority, nor is it necessarily the ... See full document

... with strong reliability and validity. It is a measuring instrument recently, which was developed in response of persisting problems related to the previous measurement instruments. Teachers’ Sense of ... See full document

... this study, a 5-grade Likert-type ITO has been developed that will can be evaluated the teacher candidates’ attitudes towards statistics and findings have been presented related to the reliability and ... See full document

... In the research conducted in order to determine the preferences of the students between printed books and electronic books, a significant relationship was found between the frequency of reading on the computer and online ... See full document

... this study; nevertheless the use of self-report measures allows the enrollment of large samples, and given the guarantee of anonymity, par- ticipants might be more forthcoming when filling in the ...the ... See full document

... cross-sectional study of 353 JGSDF peacekeeping personnel engaged in the United Nations Mission in the Republic of South Sudan from November 2015 to May ...Competence Scale – Japanese Short Version ... See full document

... this study was to translate the OCAS and FCAS into Turkish and examine its psychometric ...high validity and reliability scores (Büyüköztürk, 2004; Tabachnick & Fidell, 1996; Tezbaşaran, 1996)  ... See full document

... the scale comply with actual ...Alfa reliability analysis was made in order to determine the reliability coefficient of scores obtained from ...Alpha reliability coefficient was was calculated ... See full document

... TPF scale and subscales of A/R and IN, and good in the sub- scale of ...meta-analysis study, Duhig et al sug- gested higher interparental score correspondence in externalized behaviors than the ... See full document

... report reliability and validity ...no scale to assess health- care professionals’ competence in TCM communication; the available literature regarding TCM communication is limited to the communication ... See full document

... In total, 144 participants completed the questionnaires and semi-structured interviews. Demographic valuables are shown in Table 1. Eighty-six participants were females (60.0%), and the mean age was 53.3 (SD = 16.2) ... See full document

... TIL Scale was translated into Japanese, and the expressions of the Japanese version were confirmed by a back translation ...translated scale was then administered to Japanese respondents recruited from an ... See full document

... 22- McAuley E. Success and causality in sport: The influence of perception. J Sport Psychol. 1985; 7:13-22. 23- Mcauley E, Gross JB. Perceptions of causality in sport: An application of the causal dimension scale. ... See full document

... In order to determine whether the data used in the factor analysis were obtained from a suitable sample group, the KMO test was performed. The Barlett test was also performed to show whether the correlation between the ... See full document

... Capacity Scale, researches examining the educational capacities of schools were surveyed while analyzing the literature and constructing an item ...Rating Scale (PIMRS)” [16, 17], "Instructional ... See full document

... Despite criticisms, it is seen that there is a growing interest towards oral history in schools. Thanks to oral history, it is thought that students gain skills by doing, living, asking questions, and empathizing between ... See full document