Browsing by Subject "psychometrics"

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    • Assessing Music Perception in Young Children: Evidence for and Psychometric Features of the M-Factor 

      Barros, Caio G.; Swardfager, Walter; Moreno, Sylvain; Bortz, Graziela; Ilari, Beatriz; Jackowski, Andrea P.; Ploubidis, George; Little, Todd D.; Lamont, Alexandra; Cogo-Moreira, Hugo (Frontiers Media Sa, 2017)
      Given the relationship between language acquisition and music processing, musical perception (MP) skills have been proposed as a tool for early diagnosis of speech and language difficulties

    • Cocaine craving questionnaire: Assessing craving among cocaine users in Brazil 

      Silveira, D. X. da; Fernandes, M.; Silveira, E. D.; Jorge, M. R. (Elsevier B.V., 2006-06-15)
      The Cocaine Craving Questionnaire was administered to 205 cocaine addicts. A 6/5 cut-off corresponded to the scale's best performance. Reliability was 0.803. Receiver Operating Characteristic analysis resulted in an area ...

    • Evidências de validade do Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire (FFMQ) em população de profissionais da atenção primária à saúde, e correlações com medidas de autocompaixão 

      Loyola, Vinicius Terra [UNIFESP] (Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP), 2015-09-23)
      Introduction: The practices and interventions based on mindfulness are found in various cultural, religious, philosophical and medical traditions from the east, such as Buddhism and Tibetan medicine. Many of mindfulness ...

    • Factor structure of the Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS) in Brazil: convergent validation of the Brazilian version 

      Higuchi, Cinthia Hiroko; Ortiz, Bruno; Berberian, Arthur de Almeida [UNIFESP]; Noto, Cristiano [UNIFESP]; Cordeiro, Quirino; Belangero, Sintia Iole [UNIFESP]; Pitta, Jose Cassio do Nascimento [UNIFESP]; Gadelha, Ary [UNIFESP]; Bressan, Rodrigo Affonseca [UNIFESP] (Associação Brasileira de Psiquiatria - ABP, 2014-12-01)
      Objectives: The Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS) was developed to assess the symptoms of schizophrenia dimensionally. Although it is widely used in clinical trials in Brazil, it is not fully validated. The aim ...

    • A new motor screening assessment for children at risk for motor disorders: construct validity 

      Martins Okuda, Paola Matiko[UNIFESP]; Pangelinan, Melissa; Chiorri, Carlo; Capellini, Simone Aparecida; Cogo-Moreira, Hugo [UNIFESP] (Assoc Arquivos Neuro- Psiquiatria, 2018)
      Objective: To develop a motor screening assessment and provide preliminary evidence of its psychometric properties. Methods: A sample of 365 elementary school students was assessed, with structural equation modeling applied ...

    • Structural validity and reliability of the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS): Evidence from a large Brazilian community sample 

      Carvalho, Hudson W. de; Andreoli, Sergio B. [UNIFESP]; Lara, Diogo R.; Patrick, Christopher J.; Quintana, Maria Ines [UNIFESP]; Bressan, Rodrigo A. [UNIFESP]; Melo, Marcelo F. de [UNIFESP]; Mari, Jair de J. [UNIFESP]; Jorge, Miguel R. [UNIFESP] (Assoc Brasileira Psiquiatria, 2013-04-01)
      Objective: Positive and negative affect are the two psychobiological-dispositional dimensions reflecting proneness to positive and negative activation that influence the extent to which individuals experience life events ...

    • Translation and cultural adaptation of the Game Dice Task to Brazilian population 

      Rzezak, Patricia [UNIFESP]; Antunes, Hanna Karen Moreira [UNIFESP]; Tufik, Sergio [UNIFESP]; Mello, Marco Tulio de [UNIFESP] (Academia Brasileira de Neurologia - ABNEURO, 2012-12-01)
      OBJECTIVE: The Game Dice Task (GDT) was developed to measure decision making under known risk. The aim of this study was to translate and adapt the GDT to a Brazilian population. METHOD: After the GDT was translated and ...

    • Validade de construto da versão brasileira do Inventário Espectral de Externalização: evidências a partir de uma amostra de estudantes universitários 

      Carvalho, Hudson Wander de [UNIFESP]; Patrick, Christopher John; Krueger, Roberto Frederick; Markon, Kristian Erik; Pinheiro, Ângela Maria Vieira (Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo, 2010-01-01)
      BACKGROUND: Externalizing is a dimension of individual differences that undergirds and unites aggressive and impulsive personality traits to psychopathological disorders related to substance use and antisocial behavior. ...

    • Validation of the alcohol, smoking and substance involvement screening test (ASSIST) 

      Humeniuk, Rachel; Ali, Robert; Babor, Thomas F.; Farrell, Michael; Formigoni, Maria L. [UNIFESP]; Jittiwutikarn, Jaroon; Lacerda, Roseli B. de; Ling, Walter; Marsden, John; Monteiro, Maristela; Nhiwatiwa, Sekai; Pal, Hemraj; Poznyak, Vladimir; Simon, Sara (Wiley-Blackwell, 2008-06-01)
      Aim the concurrent, construct and discriminative validity of the World Health Organization's Alcohol, Smoking and Substance Involvement Screening Test (ASSIST) were examined in a multi-site international study. Participants ...

    • Validity of the QUADAS-2 in Assessing Risk of Bias in Alzheimer's Disease Diagnostic Accuracy Studies 

      Venazzi, Alisson [UNIFESP]; Swardfager, Walter; Lam, Benjamin; Siqueira, Jose de Oliveira; Herrmann, Nathan; Cogo-Moreira, Hugo [UNIFESP] (Frontiers Media Sa, 2018)
      Accurate detection of Alzheimer's disease (AD) is of considerable clinical importance. The Quality Assessment of Diagnostic Accuracy Studies 2 (QUADAS-2) is the current research standard for evaluating the quality of studies ...