scholarly journals Psychometric evaluation of the Persian version of the Doloplus-2 (P-Doloplus-2) scale in elderly with dementia

2020 ◽  
Vol 50 (4) ◽  
pp. 953-962
Author(s):  
Mohammad ZARE ◽  
Zahra TAGHARROBI ◽  
Khadijeh SHARIFI ◽  
Zahra SOOKI ◽  
Javad ABOLHASANI
2021 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Hamid Sharif Nia ◽  
Mobin Mohammadinezhad ◽  
Kelly A. Allen ◽  
Christopher Boyle ◽  
Saeed Pahlevan Sharif ◽  
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Abstract Objective The spiritual well-being scale (SWBS) is a widely used clinical scale which should be evaluated for Iranian patients with cancer. The aim of this study is to evaluate the psychometric properties of the Persian version of the SWBS in Iranian patients with cancer. Method This cross-sectional, methodological study was conducted among Iranian patients with cancer (n = 400). The participants were recruited using convenience sampling. The content, construct, convergent and discriminant validity, and reliability of the Persian version of the SWBS were evaluated. Results A two-factor structure for the scale was indicated with the factors being: connecting with God and meaningless life that explained 54.18% of the total variance of the concept of spiritual well-being. The results demonstrated the model had a good fit. Cronbach's alpha, McDonald's omega, and the inter-item correlation values of the factors indicated good internal consistency of the scale. Significance of results These results suggest that the Persian version of the SWBS is a reliable and valid measure to assess the spiritual well-being of patients with cancer through 16 items related to connecting with God and meaningless life.


2020 ◽  
Vol 25 ◽  
pp. 100522 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vahid Khosravani ◽  
Jonathan S. Abramowitz ◽  
Seyed Mehdi Samimi Ardestani ◽  
Farangis Sharifi Bastan ◽  
Zoleikha Kamali

Death Studies ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 40 (9) ◽  
pp. 547-557 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammad Ali Soleimani ◽  
Ameneh Yaghoobzadeh ◽  
Nasim Bahrami ◽  
Saeed Pahlevan Sharif ◽  
Hamid Sharif Nia

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-26
Author(s):  
Parnian Mirbehresi ◽  
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Afsaneh Nikjooy ◽  
Javad Sarrafzadeh ◽  
Holakoo Mohsenifar ◽  
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Background and Objectives: Chronic functional constipation is a prevalent and symptom-based disorder of the gastrointestinal tract. Constipation takes several different forms among patients. The Wexner Constipation Scoring System (WCSS) was developed to present a uniform tool for the assessment of chronic functional constipation. The purpose of this study was to provide the Persian version of WCSS and assess its validity and reliability. Methods: WCSS was translated into Farsi. After being linguistically validated, the Persian version of the WCSS was administered to a sample of 76 patients with chronic functional constipation. Reliability tests were used to evaluate the internal consistency (the Cronbach alpha) and reproducibility (Intraclass Coefficient Correlation [ICC]) of the tool. The validation studies were conducted to assess the convergent validity (Correlated with the Patient Assessment of Constipation Symptom [PAC-SYM]) and Concurrent Validity (Correlated with Patient Assessment of Constipation Quality of Life [PAC-QOL]) of the tool, too. Results: The Cronbach alpha for total scores was 0.66 and the ICC was 0.85 (0.77-0.90, 95% CI). The total score of WCSS was significantly correlated with the total scores of PAC-SYM (r=0.67) and PAC-QOL (r=0.61). Conclusion: The linguistic and psychometric evaluation demonstrated good validity and reproducibility of the Persian version of WCSS.


10.19082/3616 ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 3616-3622
Author(s):  
Nasibeh Sharifi ◽  
Somayyeh Khazaeian ◽  
Safoura Khazaeian ◽  
Marzieh Masjoudi ◽  
Azita Fathnejad Kazemi ◽  
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2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Malihe Ghiasvand ◽  
Giti Ozgoli ◽  
Nourossadat kariman

Abstract Objective: Prenatal behavior, including nutrition, exercise, drug use and smoking, affects health of a pregnant woman and her fetus. Psychometric evaluation of the Prenatal Health Behavior Scale (PHBS) is important for developing research on measurement of such this behavior during pregnancy.Methods: The present descriptive study was conducted in 2018. The original version was in English, and was then translated into Persian after obtaining permission from tool designer and using Backward-Forward translation.The final Persian version included 240 pregnant mothers who were selected using random cluster sampling from hospitals affiliated to Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences in Tehran. The factor analysis methods (exploratory and confirmatory), Pearson correlation, and Cronbach's alpha coefficient by SPSSV19 and LISRELV8.80 were used to analyze research findings.Results: Content validity and face validity were assessed by survey of 10 experts and 20 pregnant mothers.In general, the CVI was 94%.The confirmatory factor analysis indicated that all factor loadings were appropriate and significant in the initial model. Furthermore, coefficient alpha was 0.932 for prenatal health promoting behavior and 0.935 for Health-impairing behaviors. The values were acceptable and indicated the high validity of tool in the Iranian sample.Conclusion: The research findings indicated that the Prenatal Health Behavior Scale (PHBS) had acceptable psychometric properties among Iranian pregnant women and could be used as a valid tool for assessing prenatal health behavior in Iran.


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