Development and psychometric properties of appraisals of post traumatic spinal cord injury health scale in Iran.

ABSTRACT:

Study design

Development and psychometrics study OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the reliability and validity of a new version of Appraisals of Post-Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury Health Scale (APTSCIHS) in the Persian language for persons with spinal cord injury (SCI).

Setting

The persons were selected from National Spinal Cord Injury Registry of Iran (NSCIR-IR) and Brain and Spinal Cord Injury Research center (BASIR).

Method

This was a mixed sequential exploratory study that performed in two phases. In the qualitative phase, a systematic scoping review and 12 interviews with the participants were done. Finally, items were generated. In the quantitative phase, face, content, construct and convergent validity were assessed to evaluate validity. To evaluate construct validity, a

SUBMITTER: Shabany M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11039631 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature