Development and Validation of a Self-Administered Questionnaire to Measure Water Exposures in Children

Perceptions About Water and Increased Use of Bottled Water in Minority Children

“…Finally, parental report of water use may not be accurate for older children, although we have previously validated parent-reported use for children of various ages. 25 We conclude that there are important racial and ethnic differences in the use of bottled water and that the increased bottled water use among Latinos and African Americans is based on beliefs about, prior experiences with, and sources of information regarding drinking water. These water consumption patterns can contribute to health disparities.…”

Development and Validation of a Self-Administered Questionnaire for Myasthenia Gravis Patients

“…The self-designed questions were evaluated and the results showed excellent or good agreement for most questions, demonstrating good stability and reliability ( table 4 ). However, the MG-specific questions regarding Robertson et al [12] 1998 UK standardized questionnaire Paul et al [13] 2001 USA HR-QoL, SF-36, MOS Padua et al [14] 2001 Italy HR-QoL, SF-36 Paul et al [15] 2002 USA demographic questionnaire, CDMI, MFI Padua et al [16] 2002 Italy disease-specific 25-item MG-QoL Oopik et al [17] 2003 Estonia questionnaire about onset and course of MG, comorbidity and treatment Rostedt et al [18] 2005 Sweden disease-specific 25-item MG-QoL Padua et al [19] 2005 Italy disease-specific 25-item MG-QoL Rostedt et al [20] 2006 Sweden disease-specific 25-item MG-QoL, SF-36 de Freitas Fregonezi et al [21] 2006 Spain HR-QoL, SF-36 Rostedt et al [22] 2006 Sweden disease-specific 25-item MG-QoL Bilinska and Sitek [23] 2007 Poland HR-QoL, acceptance-of-illness scale, LOT-R, BDI, STAI, MG disability scale Mullins et al [24] 2008 USA 60-item MG-QoL Burns et al [25] 2008 clinical characteristics and some potential MG-modifying factors showed a larger range with excellent-to-poor agreement scores indicating less stability, but still satisfactory test-retest results compared with other similar studies [30,31] . The MG clinical characteristics and severity were analyzed separately by regional domains, as shown in figure 3 a.…”

“…However, the good-to-excellent reliability of more than half of the self-designed questions indicates their stability ( table 4 ). We evaluated the poorer results regarding the items of potential modifying factors for MG, and decided to keep the questions after a minor revision because similar studies of questionnaires measuring self-report on exposures have accepted agreement scores between 0.4 and 0.7 [30,31] . In spite of the limitations of the test-retest study, our statistical methods enabled us to improve the specificity and precision of some questions as shown in figure 3 a.…”

Diseño y validación de un cuestionario sobre conocimientos y hábitos en higiene corporal infantil (HICORIN®)

“…En primer lugar, supera la insuficiente descripción del proceso de validación y detalle de las propiedades psicométricas de los instrumentos encontrados 15---33 , que solo es descrita en 3 de ellos 19,20,22 . En segundo lugar, ofrece una valoración integral de la higiene corporal infantil valorando 7 dimensiones (piel corporal, cabello, manos, bucodental, pies, oídos e higiene íntima).…”