scholarly journals Development and Validation of a new Multidimensional Questionnaire called Muslim Medical Student Questionnaire (MMSQ) among Malaysian Undergraduates

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ramli Musa ◽  
M. Fauzi Abdul Rani ◽  
Aminudin Che A. ◽  
Samsul Draman
Keyword(s):  
Assessment Tool ◽  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
Factor Loading ◽  
Knowledge Domains ◽  
Standard Assessment ◽  
Medical Program ◽  
Student Questionnaire ◽  
Medical Undergraduates ◽  
Development And Validation ◽  
The Impact

Introduction: A handful of medical schools have implemented the Islamic input in medical program into their medical curricula. However we are facing a setback as there is no validated standard assessment tool to measure the effectiveness of this academic input for undergraduate medical programme. Therefore the objective of this study is to design a scale that is able to gauge the impact of the Islamic input among medical undergraduates. Materials and Methods: The construction of a new scale is based on the 5 stages of standard questionnaire design. To validate the newly designed scale, it was administered to all the medical students who granted their consent. Results: A total of 520 students from all academic years of a medical school were enrolled in the validation stage. Bartlet’s KMO value is 0.9. From 46 items, 67% had good factor loading (>0.4). Cronbach’s alpha values of 0.78, 0.85 and 0.13 were obtained for Attitude, Practice and Knowledge domains respectively. We identified the 3 domains by using exploratory factor analysis. Conclusion: The scale has good psychometric values for both reliability and validity.

scholarly journals Development and Validation of Teacher and Student Questionnaires Measuring Inhibitors of Curriculum Viability

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rehan Ahmed Khan ◽  
Annemarie Spruijt ◽  
Usman Mahboob ◽  
Mohamed Al Eraky ◽  
Jeroen J. G. van Merrienboer
Keyword(s):  
Medical Curriculum ◽  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
Quality Standards ◽  
Cognitive Interviews ◽  
Fit Indices ◽  
Final Model ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Student Questionnaire ◽  
Development And Validation ◽  
Expert Validation

Abstract BackgroundCurriculum viability is determined by the degree to which quality standards have or have not been met, and by the inhibitors that affect attainment of those standards. The literature reports many ways to evaluate whether a curriculum reaches its quality standards, but less attention is paid to the identification of viability inhibitors in different areas of the curriculum that hamper the attainment of quality. The purpose of this study is to develop and establish the reliability and validity of questionnaires that measure the presence of inhibitors in an undergraduate medical curriculum. MethodsTeacher and student questionnaires developed by the authors were sent to medical educationalists for qualitative expert validation and to establish their content validity. To establish the response process validity, cognitive interviews were held with teachers and students to clarify any confusion about the meaning of items in the questionnaires. Reliability and construct validity of the questionnaires were established by responses from 575 teachers and 247 final-year medical students.Results Qualitative expert validation was provided by 21 experts. The initial teacher and student questionnaires containing respectively 62 items to measure 12 theoretical constructs, and 28 items to measure 7 constructs, were modified to improve their clarity and relevance. The overall scale validity index for the questionnaires was, in order, .95 and .94. Following the cognitive interviews, the resultant teacher and student questionnaires were reduced to respectively 52 and 23 items. Furthermore, after the confirmatory analysis, the final version of the teacher questionnaire was reduced to 25 items to measure 6 constructs and the student questionnaire was reduced to 14 items to measure 3 constructs. Good-for-fit indices were established for the final model and Cronbach alphas of, in order, .89 and .81 were found for the teacher and student questionnaire.ConclusionThe valid and reliable curriculum viability inhibitor questionnaires for teachers and students developed in this study can be used by medical schools to identify inhibitors to achieve standards in different areas of the curriculum.

scholarly journals Development and validation of the Health-Friendly Activity Index: an assessment tool to comprehensively measure health-friendly activities of corporations or organisations

BMJ Open ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (7) ◽  
pp. e048768
Author(s):  
Young Ho Yun ◽  
Si Nae Oh ◽  
Jin-Ah Sim ◽  
Sujee Lee ◽  
Eun-Jung Sohn
Keyword(s):  
Assessment Tool ◽  
Activity Index ◽  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
Correlation Coefficients ◽  
Field Testing ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Corporate Managers ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Development And Validation

ObjectivesWe developed the Health-Friendly Activity Index (HFAI) to comprehensively measure the health-friendly activities of corporations or organisations. We validated the developed tool and reported on its use as an assessment tool to improve consumers’ health-related outcomes.DesignThis was a cross-sectional study.SettingDevelopment of the HFAI questionnaire followed a three-phase process: item generation, item construction and validation with field testing. Using relevance and feasibility criteria, we developed a 105-item questionnaire with six domains (Governance and Infrastructure, Needs Assessment, Planning, Implementation, Monitoring and Feedback, and Outcomes).ParticipantsTo assess the sensitivity and validity of the questionnaire, the HFAI and Contribution Assessment Tool for Consumer’s Health (CATCH) were administered to 302 participants (151 employers and 151 employees) from 151 Korean companies.Primary outcome measuresThe CATCH measured the contribution of each company to the physical, mental, social and spiritual health of its consumers. To estimate the reliability and validity of all six HFAI domains and their respective scales, Cronbach’s α coefficients and correlation coefficients were used.ResultsEach domain and scale of the HFAI exhibited a Cronbach’s α coefficient between 0.80 and 0.98 for the employers and employees. The overall HFAI and its six domains correlated significantly and positively with all health outcomes such as physical, mental, social and spiritual status scores evaluated using the CATCH (Spearman’s correlation range: 0.37–0.68).ConclusionThe HFAI, a unique assessment tool with acceptable psychometric properties, can help corporate managers assess their health-friendly activities.

Information technology capacities assessment tool in hospitals: Instrument development and validation

2009 ◽  
Vol 25 (01) ◽  
pp. 97-106 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mirou Jaana ◽  
Guy Paré ◽  
Claude Sicotte
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Assessment Tool ◽  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
Time Frame ◽  
Assessment Instrument ◽  
External Information ◽  
Healthcare Organizations ◽  
Current Implementation ◽  
Development And Validation ◽  
Percent Response Rate

Objectives:This research integrates existing literature on information technology (IT) in hospitals, and proposes and validates a comprehensive IT capacities assessment tool in these settings.Methods:A comprehensive literature review was conducted on Medline until September 2006 to identify studies that used specific IT measures in hospitals. The results were mapped and used as a basis for the development of the proposed instrument, which was tested through a survey of Canadian healthcare organizations (N= 221).Results:A total of seventeen studies provided indicators of clinical and administrative IT capacities in hospitals. Based on the mapping of these indicators, a comprehensive IT capacities assessment instrument was developed including thirty-four items exploring computerized processes, thirteen items assessing contemporary technologies, and eleven items investigating internal and external information sharing. A time frame was inserted in the tool to reflect “plans for” versus “current” implementation of IT; in the latter, the extent of current use of computerized processes and technologies was measured on a (1–7) scale. Overall, the survey yielded a total of 106 responses (52.2 percent response rate), and the results demonstrated a good level of reliability and validity of the instrument.Conclusions:This study unifies existing work in this area, and presents the psychometric properties of an IT capacities assessment tool in hospitals. By developing scores for capturing IT capacities in hospitals, it is possible to further address important research questions related to the determinants and impacts of IT sophistication in these settings.

scholarly journals Adaptation and Validation of the Muslim Medical Students Questionnaire (MMSQ) in the Indonesian Language

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Umatul Khoiriyah ◽  
Diani Puspa Wijaya ◽  
Ramli Musa
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Medical Students ◽  
Internal Structure ◽  
Assessment Tool ◽  
Medical Curriculum ◽  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
Factor Loading ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Validity Evidence ◽  
Bahasa Indonesia

INTRODUCTION: The Muslim Medical Students Questionnaire (MMSQ) is a self-assessment tool that was designed to measure student’s Islamic competency in line with the implementation of the Islamic medical curriculum. For it to be applicable in Indonesia, this questionnaire needed to be translated and validated in the Indonesian language (Bahasa Indonesia). This study aimed to collect validity evidence of the Bahasa Indonesia version of MMSQ (BI-MMSQ). MATERIALS AND METHODS: The research process consisted of four stages: Forward and backward translation; Harmonization of the BI-MMSQ resulting from the initial stage; Pre-test of the BI-MMSQ among 30 clinical students, and finally construct validation among 225 clinical students. The completed questionnaires of 213 students were then analysed for their reliability and validity using exploratory factor analysis (EFA). RESULTS: The study showed that the scale had sufficient validity evidence; content, response process, and internal structure. The evidence of the internal structure of the tool is derived from the internal consistency (Cronbach’s Alpha is 0.85) and also from the factor analysis. Most of the items had a factor loading value of > 0.3, but it was suggested that some of those with a value of < 0.3 should be rephrased to increase their quality. The Practice domain was the most stable sub-scale since most of the items contained high factor loadings. CONCLUSION: The BI-MMSQ had sufficient validity evidence and the internal structure may be improved by alteration of a few items.

Towards AI-powered Language Assessment Tools

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mah Parsa ◽  
Muhammad Raisul Alam ◽  
Alex Mihailidis
Keyword(s):  
Language Impairment ◽  
Assessment Tool ◽  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
High Sensitivity ◽  
Language Assessment ◽  
Assessment Tools ◽  
Acoustic Features ◽  
Linguistic Markers ◽  
Binary Classifiers ◽  
The Impact

Abstract Objectives: The main objective of this paper is to propose an approach for developing an Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered Language Assessment (LA) tool. Such tools can be used to assess language impairments associated with dementia in older adults. The Machine Learning (ML) classifiers are the main parts of our proposed approach, therefore to develop an accurate tool with high sensitivity and specificity, we consider different binary classifiers and evaluate their performances. We also assess the reliability and validity of our approach by comparing the impact of different types of language tasks, features, and recording media on the performance of ML classifiers. Approach: Our approach includes the following steps: 1) Collecting language datasets or getting access to available language datasets; 2) Extracting linguistic and acoustic features from subjects' speeches which have been collected from subjects with dementia (N=9) and subjects without dementia (N=13); 3) Selecting most informative features and using them to train ML classifiers; and 4) Evaluating the performance of classifiers on distinguishing subjects with dementia from subjects without dementia and select the most accurate classier to be the basis of the AI tool. Results: Our results indicate that 1) we can nd more predictive linguistic markers to distinguish language impairment associated with dementia from participants' speech produced during the Picture Description (PD) language task than the Story Recall (SR) task; and 2) phone-based recording interfaces provide more high-quality language datasets than the web-based recording systems Conclusion: Our results verify that the tree-based classifiers, which have been trained using the linguistic and acoustic features extracted from interviews' transcript and audio, can be used to develop an AI-powered language assessment tool for detecting language impairment associated with dementia.

scholarly journals The development and validation of the Brief Experience of Caregiving Inventory (BECI)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ciarán O'Driscoll ◽  
Simone Farrelly ◽  
Philip Burgess ◽  
George Szmukler ◽  
Madiha Shaikh
Keyword(s):  
Psychotic Disorders ◽  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Routine Practice ◽  
Multidimensional Item Response ◽  
Good Reliability ◽  
Graded Response ◽  
The Social ◽  
Development And Validation ◽  
The Impact

Objectives: The social network supporting an individual with psychosis may be adversely affected by the experience of caregiving. The Experience of Caregiving Inventory (ECI) is 66 item self-report measure of the impact of caregiving for carers of people diagnosed with psychotic disorders. This study aimed to create a brief version of the ECI, and evaluate its reliability and validity (n=626). Methods: The validation process was conducted through a multidimensional item response theory (MIRT) approach, using a graded response model and a complementary network approach. Results: This resulted in a 19 item, four factor inventory with a good model fit, displaying good reliability and validity. Conclusion: The BECI is a valid measure. The simplicity, ease of application and robust psychometric properties further enhances its acceptability and usefulness as a brief measure in clinical research and trials, as well as in routine practice providing reliable and valid data on experience of caregiving in families of an individual with psychosis.

scholarly journals Development and validation of teacher and student questionnaires measuring inhibitors of curriculum viability

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rehan Ahmed Khan ◽  
Annemarie Spruijt ◽  
Usman Mahboob ◽  
Mohamed Al Eraky ◽  
Jeroen J. G. van Merrienboer
Keyword(s):  
Medical Curriculum ◽  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
Quality Standards ◽  
Cognitive Interviews ◽  
Fit Indices ◽  
Final Model ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Student Questionnaire ◽  
Development And Validation ◽  
Expert Validation

Abstract Background Curriculum viability is determined by the degree to which quality standards have or have not been met, and by the inhibitors that affect attainment of those standards. The literature reports many ways to evaluate whether a curriculum reaches its quality standards, but less attention is paid to the identification of viability inhibitors in different areas of the curriculum that hamper the attainment of quality. The purpose of this study is to develop and establish the reliability and validity of questionnaires that measure the presence of inhibitors in an undergraduate medical curriculum. Methods Teacher and student questionnaires developed by the authors were sent to medical educationalists for qualitative expert validation and to establish their content validity. To establish the response process validity, cognitive interviews were held with teachers and students to clarify any confusion about the meaning of items in the questionnaires. Reliability and construct validity of the questionnaires were established by responses from 575 teachers and 247 final-year medical students. Results Qualitative expert validation was provided by 21 experts. The initial teacher and student questionnaires containing respectively 62 items to measure 12 theoretical constructs, and 28 items to measure 7 constructs, were modified to improve their clarity and relevance. The overall scale validity index for the questionnaires was, in order, .95 and .94. Following the cognitive interviews, the resultant teacher and student questionnaires were reduced to respectively 52 and 23 items. Furthermore, after the confirmatory analysis, the final version of the teacher questionnaire was reduced to 25 items to measure 6 constructs and the student questionnaire was reduced to 14 items to measure 3 constructs. Good-for-fit indices were established for the final model and Cronbach alphas of, in order, .89 and .81 were found for the teacher and student questionnaire. Conclusion The valid and reliable curriculum viability inhibitor questionnaires for teachers and students developed in this study can be used by medical schools to identify inhibitors to achieve standards in different areas of the curriculum.

scholarly journals Initial Development and Validation of a Transition Readiness Scale for Adolescents with Inflammatory Bowel Disease

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
pp. 1-6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oded Hammerman ◽  
Areej Bayatra ◽  
Dan Turner ◽  
Arie Levine ◽  
Raanan Shamir ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Assessment Tool ◽  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
Study Cohort ◽  
Adult Health ◽  
Self Assessment ◽  
Initial Development ◽  
Transition Readiness ◽  
Inflammatory Bowel ◽  
Development And Validation

Background and Aims. To date, there are no validated measures in IBD to assess the level of preparedness for transition into adult health care. The purpose of this study was to develop and assess the reliability and validity of a “Transition Readiness” (TR) measure for adolescents with IBD, as well as to evaluate the level of TR synchronicity between adolescents themselves, their parents, and their pediatric gastroenterologists. Methods. A self-assessment tool was created to evaluate TR. Items were reviewed for face validation by IBD experts, and an exploratory factor analysis was performed which yielded 3 distinct domains. The study cohort included adolescents aged 12-21 yrs, their parents, and their physicians in pediatric IBD centers. Correlations between patient/parent/physician TR between each of the domains and the overall TR score to age were assessed. Results. 63 subjects (average age 16.6 yrs/79% Crohn’s disease/44% male) participated in this study. There was a significant correlation between the scoring of adolescents and parents on all three domains. The correlation between adolescents and physicians, as well as between parents and physicians, was only consistent for self-efficacy. Self-efficacy significantly correlated with age, while the correlations between perceived knowledge and perception of medical care with age were not significant. Conclusion. Validation of a novel TR measurement for adolescents with IBD demonstrated a good correlation between patients and parents. Out of the three proposed constructs, perceived self-efficacy is the most salient measure.

Mediating Effect of Organizational Commitment Between Islamic Human Resource Practices and Organizational Performance Among Islamic Banks of Bangladesh

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 54-65
Author(s):  
Bablu Kumar Dhar ◽  
Rosnia Masruki ◽  
Mahazan Mutalib ◽  
Hatem Mohammed Rahouma ◽  
Farid A. Sobhani ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Commitment ◽  
Organizational Performance ◽  
Human Resource ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Stock Exchange ◽  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
Islamic Banks ◽  
Hr Practices ◽  
The Impact

This paper aims at exploring the impact of Islamic human resource (HR) practices on organizational performance though organizational commitment. Data were collected from randomly selected 170 branch managers of six Islamic Banks listed on Dhaka Stock Exchange of Bangladesh. After collecting data, descriptive analysis and structural equation model were done to examine reliability and validity of the model. By analysis, the study finds that Islamic HR practices have more significant impact on organizational performance though organizational commitment rather than the direct effect of Islamic HR practices to organizational performance. The findings of the study advocate that Islamic banks should emphasize more on Islamic HR practices and organizational commitment to uphold their organizational performance.

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