Investigators tested a new healthcare tool in accurately assessing the health and well-being of children with Down Syndrome.

Reliability and Validity of the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy–Ovarian Authors: Karen Basen-Engquist, Diane Bodurka-Bevers, Mary A. Fitzgerald, Kimberly Webster, David Cella, Shaohua Hu, and ...

Eligible patients were ≥ 65 years old, had a cancer diagnosis, and were fluent in English. Patients were randomly assigned to one of four arms, in which they completed the geriatric assessment twice: ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Objective: To assess the reliability and validity of the Short-Form 36 (SF-36) health survey as a health status indicator among HIV-infected ...

Those of us in the business of psychological measurement use the terms reliability and validity a lot. You've probably seen those terms on the Psychology Today website (they appear thousands of times) ...

This prospective methodological study was undertaken as a two-step process. First, the OSS and the WORC index were translated and adapted into Norwegian; second the three questionnaires were evaluated ...

Purpose Examination of reliability and validity of a specialized health-related quality of life questionnaire for rectal cancer (RC) survivors (≥5 years post-diagnosis). Methods We mailed 1,063 Kaiser ...

It is often said, "What gets rewarded gets done." However, if we say that incident reductions will be rewarded, there are many ways to reduce incident counts and rates without actually improving ...

In my previous blog post, I noted that reliability and validity are two essential properties of psychological measurement. Measures of intelligence, personality, vocational interests, and so forth ...

The main findings of the present study were that the agreement, reliability and construct validity of the questionnaires examined are acceptable. Differences in agreement between the questionnaires ...