Content and Face Validity of the Evaluation Tool of Health Information for Consumers (ETHIC): Getting Health Information Accessible to Patients and Citizens.

Background: Health information concerns both individuals' engagement and the way services and professionals provide information to facilitate consumers' health decision making. Citizens' and patients' participation in the management of their own health is related to the availability of tools making health information accessible, thus promoting empowerment and making care more inclusive and fairer. A novel instrument was developed (Evaluation Tool of Health Information for Consumers-ETHIC) for assessing the formal quality of health information materials written in Italian language.

Italian validation of the DEMQOL-PROXY: Exploratory Factor Analysis, Convergent and Divergent Validity.

Background And Aim Of The Work: we present in this paper a complete Italian validation version. We show some psychometric properties of the Italian version of the DEMQOL-PROXY: Structural validity (by use Exploratory Factor Analysis), convergent validity and divergent validity in Italian language Method.We enrolled a sample of 182 caregivers of people with mild to moderate Dementia.

Underestimated Needs for Lymphoma Patients: An Assessment Issue.

Background And Aim Of The Work: The aim of the current study was to explore under-considered psychosocial needs for lymphoma cancer group. A model of the role of psychosocial factors and Stressful Life Events was operationalized.

Method: We used Discriminant Analysis to test predictive power of the model.

A protocol for Italian validation of DEMQoL-Proxy Scale: assessing the Quality of Life of people with moderate or mild dementia.

In this paper, we propose an adaptation of a protocol for a tool's validation. We have utilized this phases-theory to validate in Italian language an instrument to assess Quality of Life for people with moderate or mild dementia. We will explain the example of our Italian validation of DEMQoL-Proxy considering each De Vellis's phase.

Pre-operative anxiety management: What needs to be implemented?

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Assessing psychological needs in female cancer patients: a tailored model.

Background And Aim Of The Work: Psychosocial needs in cancer patients seem to be underestimated and undertreated. The present research was designed to explore under-considered psychosocial needs (e.g.

Association between Satisfaction with Dialysis Treatment and Quality of Life: A Cross-Sectional Study.

Introduction: CKD is associated with a reduction of patients' health-related quality of life. Considering the time spent in dialysis, satisfaction with care is essential for patients QOL.

Objective: Since the possible association between satisfaction with the dialysis care and QOL has never been studied, in this study, we explore this plausible link.

Italian pilot version of DEMOQL-PROXY: Content and Face validity: a methodological bridge for a future Italian validation.

Background And Aim Of The Work: The assessment of Quality of Life through validated tools allow to improve level of assistance for people suffering from Dementia. To our Knowledge in Italian language seem to be absent a tool to evaluate mild and moderate dementia, consequently underestimating and underrating needs of this specific target. We show an Italian pilot version of the DEMQOL-PROXY (specific for mild and moderate Dementia) testing some psychometric properties as: back-translation, content validity and face validity in Italian language.

Italian Validation of the Chiba Interprofessional Competency Scale (CICS29).

Background And Aim Of The Work: The Chiba Inter-professional Competency Scale (CICS29) validated in several languages, it is a self-report instrument that investigates the degree of interprofessional collaboration in six areas: attitudes and beliefs of the professional; ability to manage a work group; actions to achieve goals; providing assistance that respects the patient; attitudes and behaviours that improve the cohesion of the working group; fulfilling or performing the own professional role. In addition to being recent, the scale investigates collaboration among all health professionals, and is not limited to specific professionals. The aim of the study was to validate the Italian version of CICS29.

Assessment of depression symptoms in female cancer patients: focus on concurrent validity.

Background And Aim Of The Work: The present research explores Concurrent Validity of two depression measures the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) and the Depression Subscale of the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS- Depression subscale) in specific oncological groups (female cancer and onco-hematological patients).

Method: A correlational study was designed and took place at Careggi Universitary Hospital in Florence, including 339 oncological patients, in particular 103 (59 Women and 44 men) patients suffering from lymphoma, and 236 patients suffering from female cancer. We estimated, by Pearson's r, Concurrent Validity between BDI and HADS depression's subscale.

Construct validity of the Amsterdam Preoperative Anxiety and Information Scale (Italian Version) in women undergoing breast biopsy: a brief research report.

The goal of this paper was to test Construct Validity of the Amsterdam Preoperative Anxiety and Information Scale (Italian Version) in women undergoing Breast Biopsy. To answer this purpose we have utilized Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) in a sample of 80 women undergoing Breast Biopsy at the Breast Unit of the Careggi University Hospital in Florence from January to February 2015. Overall the results support the construct validity of the Italian version of the APAIS for the population of women undergoing Breast Biopsy suggesting that the Italian version of APAIS can be useful to detect this clinically very relevant dimension.