The inherent clinical risks associated with remote and rural environments are potentially mitigated by timely air ambulance transfer, yet this involves other costs, operational constraints and limitat...
Antibiograms are cumulative reports of antimicrobial susceptibility results that are used to guide the selection of empirical antibiotic therapy. Although Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (...
Since the occurrence of the COVID-19 pandemic, information dissemination has increased rapidly. Promoting health literacy is currently crucial to prepare people to respond quickly to situations, such ...
In this validation study, 880 samples were enrolled using a convenient sampling method. The questionnaire was translated through a backward forwarding procedure. Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) and...
Using EFA on the random half sample (...
The Persian version of the HLS-COVID-Q22 had acceptable psychometric properties and is applicable to measure COVID-19 health literacy....
This research proposes a collection of urban heat island (UHI) risk indicators under four UHI risk components: hazard, exposure, sensitivity, and adaptive capacity. There are 46 UHI risk indicators li...
This study aimed to develop and test the validity and reliability of the Knowledge, Attitudes, Practise, and Experience regarding Infection Prevention and Control-associated Questionnaire for environm...
This study was a development and validation study of a questionnaire using multiple methods, including literature review, questionnaire survey, and Delphi technique....
Phase I of the study entailed the development of items through an extensive literature review and two round Delphi process with 15 experts specialised in infection prevention and control, environmenta...
In the two rounds of Delphi consultation, the recovery rate were 93.75 and 100%. Moreover, the expert authority coefficient was 0.93, and the coordination coefficients of expert opinions in the first ...
The Questionnaire demonstrated good reliability and validity and is effective in measuring levels of infection prevention and control-related knowledge, attitudes, practise, and experience among envir...
In a Nepalese setting, to measure the reliability of the Test of Infant Motor Performance (TIMP) and its ability to predict development scores at 6 months....
Nepalese infants (n = 705) were assessed by the TIMP when they were 8-12 weeks old and the Bayley Scales of Infant and Toddler Development, 3rd edition (Bayley-III) at 6 months. Inter-rater agreement ...
Inter-rater agreement was excellent (ICCs > 0.93). Alphas for the TIMP total scores were 0.76 for infants born to term and 0.72 in those born preterm. Correlation coefficients between TIMP total and B...
The reliability of the TIMP was acceptable, and the TIMP could be a feasible tool to monitor infant motor development in low-resource settings. Properties of the TIMP differed according to gestational...
Posterior malleolus fractures occur in up to 50% of all ankle fractures. Several classification systems exist for their characterization, especially under CT. However, those classifications do not rep...
This study was designed according to the Guidelines for Reporting Reliability and Agreement Studies. Ninety-four CT scans of patients with ankle fractures that had posterior malleolus fractures were i...
The interobserver agreement was moderate for Haraguchi, Bartoníček/Rammelt, and Mason classifications with a global k value of 0.52 (95% CI, 0.43 to 0.60), 0.53 (95% CI, 0.46 to 0.61), and 0.54 (95% C...
The current classifications for posterior malleolus fractures showed a substantial intraobserver agreement. Nevertheless, the interobserver agreement obtained was just moderate for all classifications...
Side effects in psychotherapy are common and have a negative impact on patients or clients. However, effective evaluation tools are still lacking and have not been fully studied. The present study aim...
The 25 items in the Psychotherapy Side Effects Scale (PSES) were condensed and distributed to 420 subjects online to test its psychometric properties....
The internal consistency of the PSES was satisfactory to excellent (Cronbach's ɑ coefficient was .95, and the Guttman split-half coefficient was 0.88). A statistically significant negative correlation...
The PSES showed good internal consistency, content validity, concurrent validity, discriminant validity and predictive validity in evaluating and identifying side effects in psychotherapy. More advanc...
Injury rates to the lower limb have increased over the past 40 years, coinciding with increases in female sport participation rates. Sport specific tests such as the running vertical jump (RVJ) are ut...
The aim of this study was to investigate the test-retest reliability of the thorax, pelvis and lower limb joint angular kinematics and kinetics for the RVJ test in female team sport athletes....
Three-dimensional motion capture with force plate integration was utilised as participants performed five trials on each limb on three separate days....
Testing occurred in a biomechanics laboratory....
Thirty-four females (Australian Rules Football = 15, Netball = 12, Soccer = 7) participated in this study....
Intraclass correlation coefficients (ICC), effect sizes and typical errors (TE) of segment and joint angular kinematics and kinetics were calculated....
Poor to excellent reliability (ICC = -0.12 - 0.92), small to large effect sizes (0.00-0.90) and TE (0.02-289.24) were observed across segment and joint angular kinematics and kinetics....
The RVJ test is recommended when analysing ground reaction forces and joint angular kinematics in female team sport athletes....
We developed the Italian version of the adult developmental co-ordination disorders/dyspraxia checklist (ADC), providing reliability and concurrent validity data for the scale (Aim 1). In addition, we...
498 participants (341 females; age range = 18-34) underwent the Italian version of the ADC, as well as a handwriting speed test, the autism spectrum quotient, the empathy quotient, and the systemizing...
The distinction between three main factors (A, B, and C) identified in the original version of the ADC was confirmed here. Internal consistency of the ADC subscales was adequate, as well as the correl...
The Italian ADC seems a valuable tool for assessing motor coordination difficulties in adults and can reveal the nuanced impact exerted by different autistic traits on self-reported motor functioning....
