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Research ArticleOpen accessIn the keywordsDevelopment and Psychometric Test of the ‘Empathy and Understanding in the Dementia Index’ for Health ProfessionalsPaul Slater, Kevin Moore, Florence Sharkey, Felicity HassonEmpathy among health professionals requires the application of empathic understanding in practice and in the way, care is provided. To date, few tools have been specifically designed to measure empathy concerning dementia training. Therefore, this study aimed to develop a psychometrically valid and reliable tool to measure empathy among health professionals. A mixed methods sequential exploratory design was adopted guided … …International Journal of Research in Nursing, Vol. 13, Issue 1 · 19 Dec 2022 · 6,910 accessesView PDF Cite

Research ArticleOpen accessIn the keywordsAn Examination of Factor Structure of the Hamilton Anxiety Rating Scale in a Non-Clinical Persian SamplePaul Slater, Brendan Bunting, Felicity Hasson et al.The Hamilton Anxiety Rating Scale is an internationally used assessment tool for anxiety level however its acceptable factor structure remains fluid. The aim of this paper is to examine the psychometric properties and establish normative anxiety prevalence rates with a Persian randomized sample. A cross sectional survey was distributed to a randomised sample of adults (n = 1260) in the … …International Journal of Research in Nursing, Vol. 10, Issue 1 · 28 May 2019 · 9,825 accessesView PDF Cite

Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractMODERATING ABILITY OF ITEM RESPONSE THEORY THROUGH PRIOR GUESSING PARAMETERSiow Hoo Leong, Siew Eng Ling, Rasidah MahdiA psycho-technology approach to discouraging guessing in multiple-choice formatted item can be done through reducing the a priori guessing probability of an item. This study proposes a psychometrics framework of Item Response Theory (IRT) to model the effect of having various priori guessing probabilities across different items. A prior guessing parameter is proposed to serves as a moderator of the … …Journal of Mathematics and Statistics, Vol. 9, Issue 4 · 26 Sep 2013 · 7,116 accessesView PDF Cite