Validation of the Early Feeding Skills Assessment Scale for the Portuguese population

Severe poverty, adversity, and malnutrition have irrefutable negative effects on the development and mental health of children and young people. The Life Skills Assessment Scale (LSAS), is a 5-item impact assessment scale developed in India, that provides a simple, yet valid and reliable, instrument to assess life skills of disadvantaged children and young people, with age norms of 8–16 years. In the present study, in Bengaluru, India, we used observational data obtained from 656 disadvantaged young people to extend the LSAS age norms to 17–19 and 20–22 years age groups, resulting in a simple, valid, and reliable assessment tool for children and young people aged from 8 to 22 years.

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Dynamic Early Feeding Skills

Advances in Neonatal Care ◽

10.1097/01.anc.0000360174.05327.2c ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 9 (4) ◽

pp. 188-189 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Suzanne M. Thoyre

Keyword(s):

Early Feeding ◽

Feeding Skills

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Liverpool Communication Skills Assessment Scale--Chinese Version

PsycTESTS Dataset ◽

10.1037/t72335-000 ◽

2013 ◽

Author(s):

Ting Xu ◽

En-Hong Dong ◽

Wei Liu ◽

Yin Liang ◽

Yong Bao

Keyword(s):

Communication Skills ◽

Chinese Version ◽

Assessment Scale ◽

Skills Assessment

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Feeding Difficulties in Preterm Infants

ICAN Infant Child & Adolescent Nutrition ◽

10.1177/1941406411421003 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 3 (6) ◽

pp. 324-331 ◽

Cited By ~ 18

Author(s):

Pamela Dodrill

Keyword(s):

Risk Factor ◽

Preterm Infants ◽

Oral Feeding ◽

Early Feeding ◽

Feeding Difficulties ◽

Milk Flow ◽

Feeding Skills ◽

Clinical Questions ◽

Feeding Difficulty ◽

Therapy Interventions

Preterm infants often display difficulty establishing oral feeding in the weeks following birth. This article aims to provide an overview of the literature investigating the development of feeding skills in preterm infants, as well as of interventions aimed at assisting preterm infants to develop their feeding skills. Available research suggests that preterm infants born at a lower gestational age and/or with a greater degree of morbidity are most at risk of early feeding difficulties. Respiratory disease was identified as a particular risk factor. Mechanisms for feeding difficulty identified in the literature include immature or dysfunctional sucking skills and poor suck–swallow–breath coordination. Available evidence provides some support for therapy interventions aimed at improving feeding skills, as well as the use of restricted milk flow to assist with maintaining appropriate ventilation during feeds. Further research is needed to confirm these findings, as well as to answer remaining clinical questions.

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The Life Skills Assessment Scale: Measuring Life Skills of Disadvantaged Children in the Developing World

Social Behavior and Personality An International Journal ◽

10.2224/sbp.2014.42.2.197 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 42 (2) ◽

pp. 197-209 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Fiona Kennedy ◽

David Pearson ◽

Lucy Brett-Taylor ◽

Vishal Talreja

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Child Development ◽

Impact Assessment ◽

Life Skills ◽

Assessment Scale ◽

Skills Assessment ◽

Effective Measure ◽

Program Impact ◽

Children In Poverty ◽

Disadvantaged Children

Adversity, including malnutrition, has had irrefutable effects on child development and mental health. India, for example, has approximately 160 million children in poverty: The growth of up to 59% of rural and 48% of all children is stunted. Hundreds of thousands of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) work with these disadvantaged children to increase their life skills and ameliorate effects of adversity. Yet a simple effective measure of program impact has remained elusive. We used observational data from 1,136 disadvantaged children aged 8 to 16 years to construct a simple 5-item impact assessment scale. Although the scale was developed in India, we envisage that it could be used with disadvantaged children worldwide.

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Non-technical skills assessment scale in nursing: construction, development and validation

Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem ◽

10.1590/1518-8345.2383.3042 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 26 (0) ◽

Author(s):

Sara Martins Pereira Pires ◽

Sara Otília Marques Monteiro ◽

Anabela Maria Sousa Pereira ◽

Joana Novaes Machado Stocker ◽

Daniela de Mascarenhas Chaló ◽

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Keyword(s):

Factor Analysis ◽

Nursing Education ◽

Exploratory Factor Analysis ◽

Undergraduate Students ◽

Technical Skills ◽

Skills Training ◽

Assessment Scale ◽

Skills Assessment ◽

Response Options ◽

Technical Skills Assessment

ABSTRACT The introduction of non-technical skills during nursing education is crucial to prepare nurses for the clinical context and increase patient safety. We found no instrument developed for this purpose. Objectives: to construct, develop and validate a non-technical skills assessment scale in nursing. Method: methodological research. Based on the literature review and experience of researchers on non-technical skills in healthcare and the knowledge of the principles of crisis resource management, a list of 63 items with a five-point Likert scale was constructed. The scale was applied to 177 nursing undergraduate students. Descriptive statistics, correlations, internal consistency analysis and exploratory factor analysis were performed to evaluate the psychometric properties of the scale. Results: scale items presented similar values for mean and median. The maximum and the minimum values presented a good distribution amongst all response options. Most items presented a significant and positive relationship. Cronbach alpha presented a good value (0.94), and most correlations were significant and positive. Exploratory factor analysis using the Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin test showed a value of 0.849, and the Bartlett’s test showed adequate sphericity values (χ2=6483.998; p=0.000). One-factor model explained 26% of the total variance. Conclusion: non-technical skills training and its measurement could be included in undergraduate or postgraduate courses in healthcare professions, or even be used to ascertain needs and improvements in healthcare contexts.

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