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Objective: The aims of the present study was to design an appropriate tool for evaluatin life skills in substance abusers. Method: In this validation study, universe constitutes of all the substance abuser men of Iran. Participants (n=350) were chosen through stratified sampling from all cities of Iran which had a Therapeutic Community, including Tehran, Hamedan, Qom, Mashad, Boroujerd, Khomein, Esfahan, Yazd, Kerman, Shiraz, Ahvaz, Abadan, Hormozgan, and Bojnourd. To analyse the research data, Pearson correlation coefficient, Bartletts sphericity test, Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin (KMO) test, scree plot, principle component analysis with Varimax rotation, and Cronbach’s alpha have been used. Findings: Cronbach’s alpha coefficient for the Life Skills Inventory (0.92) and its subscales, problem solving (0.93), emotion management (0.90), communication (0.89), assertiveness (0.87), self-awareness (0.90), and self-care (0.91) indicate its reliability. Six factors were found that explain 48.67 percent of the total variance. Conclusion: Life Skills Inventory can be applied to substance abuser men in order to clinical and educational appraisals.

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Introduction: This study aimed to examine the reliability and validity and standardization the "Child exposure to domestic violence scale".

 

Method: The statistical population included the high school students from First Grade and Second Grade in Tehran in the school year of 2011-2012. A total cohort of 1,212 (615 male and 597 female), selected by stratified Sampling. "Child Exposure to Domestic Violence" Scale (Edleson, Johnson & Shin, 2007) was translated into Persian, it`s items appropriated to Iranian culture, and was conducted in sample. The data was analyzed using SPSS16 by conducting descriptive and analytical operations such as absolute and relative frequency, mean, standard deviation, Pearson correlation coefficient, paired t-test, and exploratory factor analysis.

 

Findings: Exploratory factor analysis revealed that the scale measured seven subscales: “exposure to father’s violence against the mother”, “exposure to parental conflicts”, “child’s involvement in parent’s violence”, “exposure to violence in school or community”, “exposure to family risk factors”, “exposure to violence through the use of violent video technologies”, and “adult violence against child” that justified 60/04% of the total variance of the scale. The correlation between the scores of the CEDV and “exposure to parental physical violence questionnaire” (Vameghi, 1385) showed an acceptable convergence validity. Also, the total Cronbach's alpha coefficient (.89) and the test –retest reliability coefficient showed that “child exposure to domestic violence scale” has satisfactory reliability. Ther was a statistically significant difference in means of the scale for both boys and girls groups. The same result was found in all subscales (except for exposure to family risk factors subscale). Therefore, the normalization was carried out with regard to gender.

 Conclusion: The “child's exposure to domestic violence” scale has satisfactory reliability and validity and to run in the Iranian childrens is useable

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  Intorduction: According to the World Health Organization's definition of health, it is a state of complete physical, mental, social and spiritual well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. This definition shows the importance of spirituality in the elderly’s health. Due to the lack of Persian questionnaire to assess spirituality among the Iranian elderly, the aim of this study was to assess validity and reliability of the Persian version of Spiritual Involvement and Beliefs Scale-Revised (SIBS-R) among Iran’s elderly population.

  Methods: In order to prepare the Persian version of the questionnaire, the standard method of the translation model ‘The International Quality of Life Assessment (IQOLA) Project’ was used for translating Spiritual Involvement and Beliefs Scale-Revised (SIBS-R) among Iran’s elderly population. To determine the reliability of the scale, Intra-Class Correlation (ICC), Cronbach’s Alpha and Test-Retest among 30 samples twice with two weeks durability were tested. For assessing the validity of the questionnaire in three levels, face validity (external validity), content validity and construct validity (exploratory factor analysis) were measured. Additionally, this study is a correlational study based on which the data on Iranian elderly was collected among 200 samples in 2012 and factor analysis was done by the software of SPSS 16.

  Findings: Findings extracted from the descriptive results of the present study indicated that there is no correlation among the demographic data collected included age, religion, education and spirituality. On the other hand, after carrying out exploratory factor analysis, with calculation of Test-Retest (p-value=0.8), intra-class correlation coefficient (p-value=0.003) and the calculated internal consistency with Cronbach's alpha coefficient 0.8, reliability of the questionnaire was confirmed, and in addition through exploratory factor analysis, construct validity of the questionnaire was verified.

Discussion: One of the most important issues in studying the functional consequences of the spirituality faced by researchers and experts is development of the convenient scales for assessment and intervention research among the elderly to improve their performance in this period. In this study, regarding the internal consistency and test-retest reliability of the questionnaire, as well as confirming the face validity (appearance), content validity, and factorial validity of the questionnaire, it can be stated that Persian translated version of the Spirituality Scale in this study corresponds to the main tool and it can be used as a valid assessment tool of the spirituality in Iran’s elderly population

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Introduction: Given the importance of measuring quality of life, as an important outcome for evaluating the health status of individuals as well as assess response to interventions, the need to examine the psychometric characteristics of this questionnaire is evident. In this study the structural validity of the WHOQOL-100 questionnaire, using Rasch analysis has been studied.
 Method: Population examined in this study included 500 people from physically- movement disabled community that has been selected of Crescent Comprehensive Rehabilitation Center of Tehran. Participants in this study received the WHOQOL-100 questionnaire, which contain 6 subscales, and completed it. Then analysis was performed using Rasch analysis. On each of the dimensions one model of Rasch family models ,which is called partial credit model, was fitted and then suitability of the items was considered with using of standard item fit statistics and analysis of differential item functioning.
 Findings: After removing four overall items and then fitting the models separately on each dimension, four items of 12 items of physical health dimension, 14 items of 24 items of mental health dimension, 11 items of 16 items of independence dimension, 7 items of 12 items of social communication dimension, 7 item of 27 items of health environment dimension and 2 items of 4 items of religion, mental status and personal beliefs dimension diagnosed improper and excluded of questionnaire. Reliability indices, including Psi and Cronbach's alpha, were respectively in (0.900, 0.644) and (0.576, 0.878) intervals.
 Discussion: The remaining items in each of the dimensions of the WHOQOL-100 questionnaires have been correctly fitted model So they can measure only one aspect of quality of life. For all dimensions, the reliability index PSI, was larger than Cronbach's alpha index

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Introduction: Drug abuse is a phenomenon with social, cultural and economic dimensions. This problem has affected on large part of the workforce in many countries. This study aimed to examine the reliability and validity of youth attitude to substance abuse.

Method: using previous  questionnaire’s we designed primary repository of items which then executed on a sample of 510 student’s of universities across the country in 2011-2012 .We selected this students with a multistage sampling. For assessing the validity and reliability of this questionnaire we used of exploratory factor analysis and Cronbach's coefficient were used.

Findings: exploratory factor analysis revealed that 25 items in the model were loaded on 5 factors. These 5 subscales explained about 61 percent of variance of all construct. internal consistency of the total construct was satisfory as Cronbach's alpha coefficient was 0.82.

Discussion: The size and diversity of participants, validity of the results, and the relative shortness of questionnaire, made it a perfect tool for measuring attitudes of young people to drug abuse.