Publications by authors named "Jena Blackwood"
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- The Revised Body Awareness Rating Questionnaire (BARQ-R) is a tool designed to assess body awareness in individuals, focusing on both those with and without musculoskeletal pain.
- The study aimed to validate the structure of BARQ-R using Rasch analysis, involving 623 adults, and found that a 9-item version effectively measured body awareness without misfitting items.
- Secondary analysis on a subset of 152 adults with musculoskeletal pain confirmed similar findings, supporting the reliability and validity of the BARQ-R as a measure of body awareness.
Purpose: The Multidimensional Assessment of Interoceptive Awareness (MAIA) measures interoceptive body awareness, which includes aspects such as attention regulation, self-regulation, and body listening. Our purpose was to perform a preliminary validation of the MAIA in adults with stroke using Rasch Measurement Theory.
Methods: The original MAIA has 32 items that measure interoceptive sensibility, which is an aspect of body awareness.
Background: With the ongoing global COVID-19 pandemic and the recent political divide in the United States (US), there is an urgent need to address the soaring mental well-being problems and promote positive well-being. The Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-Being Scale (WEMWBS) measures the positive aspects of mental health. Previous studies confirmed its construct validity, reliability, and unidimensionality with confirmatory factor analysis.
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