Surface and Content Validity of the Mentoring Function Scale for Novice Nurses

This study aimed to examine the surface and content validity of the Mentoring Function Scale for Novice Nurses, used to assess the mentoring of entry-level nurses, and to refine the scale items. In Study 1, six nurse education researchers, selected using convenience sampling, with five or more years of nursing experience and experience teaching novice nurses, were invited to an expert meeting in July 2015. A group interview was conducted that lasted approximately 120 minutes. Study 2 examined the content validity index. Between September and November 2015, we distributed a self-administered questionnaire survey to 11 participants selected by convenience sampling. The participants included five nurse education researchers with a minimum of five years of nursing experience and experience teaching novice nurses, as well as six clinical nurses with a master’s degree or higher. Finally, 81 questionnaire items were retained from the initial 125 items. The 81-item Mentoring Function Scale for Novice Nurses had higher content validity than the original scale. To further increase the scale’s applicability, future studies should assess its reliability, construct validity, and criterion-related validity.

The Hope and Adaptation Scale (HAS): Establishing Face and Content Validity

Purpose: To develop and test the face and content validity of a scale that assesses an individual’s adaptation and expression of hope to a life changing events, disease or trauma. Method: The Hope and Adaptation Scale was developed and tested across three stages. Stage 1 involved the use of a review of literature to conceptually map the tool. Stage 2 required exploratory investigations of the questionnaire by members of an expert panel. Stage 3 assessed the construct validity of the resulting scale. Results: Through the processes of Stage 1 and 2, the tool was developed and reduced to a 3-item scale that assessed a spectrum of hope-related responses and a spectrum of adaptation-related responses. Stage 3 identified fifteen independent health care professionals who assessed the scale. The content validity index of the resultant scale was 0.6 that was above the required level to be acceptable. The hope spectrum responses scored the highest content validity ratio (0.73). Discussion: The proposed scale appears to have face and content validity for application to a various number of events, disease or trauma experiences. Further testing of the scale is required for application in specific population groups.

CONTENT VALIDITY STUDY ON READING COMPREHENSION TESTS OF NMET

Based on the framework of task characteristics' proposed by Bachman and Palmer (1999), this paper attempts to explore the characteristics and content validity of reading comprehension tests of NMET. By comparing and analyzing the data carefully, the author concludes that reading comprehension parts of NMET have well met the requirements in the two syllabi and have reached a high content validity. However, the author detects some weaknesses and puts forward some suggestions with the purposes for further improving and developing the future reading tests.

NDN Content Poisoning Mitigation Using Bird Swarm Optimization and Trust Value

Information-Centric Networking(ICN)is considered a viable strategy for regulating Internet consumption using the Internet’s underlying architecture.Although Named Data Networking(NDN)and its reference-based implementa-tion,the NDN Forwarding Daemon(NFD),are the most established ICN solu-tions,their vulnerability to the Content Poisoning Attack(CPA)is regarded as a severe threat that might dramatically impact this architecture.Content Poisoning can significantly minimize the impact of NDN’s universal data caching.Using verification signatures to protect against content poisoning attacks may be imprac-tical due to the associated costs and the volume of messages sent across the net-work,resulting in high computational costs.Therefore,in this research,we designed a method in NDN called Bird Swarm Optimization Algorithm-Based Content Poisoning Mitigation(BSO-Content Poisoning Mitigation Scheme).By aggregating the security information of entire routers along the full path,this sys-tem introduces the BSO to explore the secure transmission path and alter the con-tent retrieval procedure.Meanwhile,based on the determined trustworthy value of each node,the BSO-Content Poisoning Mitigation Scheme can bypass malicious routers,preventing them from disseminating illicit content in the future.Addition-ally,the suggested technique can minimize content poisoning utilizing removing erroneous Data packets from the cache-store during the pathfinding process.The proposed method has been subjected to extensive analysis compared with the ROM scheme and improved performance justified in several metrics.BSO-Con-tent Poisoning Mitigation Scheme is more efficient and faster than the ROM tech-nique in obtaining valid Data packets and resulting in a higher good cache hit ratio in a comparatively less amount of time.

Epistemological Attitudes Towards Sources of Knowledge Semantic Questionnaire

Given the everlasting significance of knowledge in society and academia,this article proposes a theoretical and methodological perspective on conceptualizing and investigating it.Specifically,it aims to explore the epistemological attitude(EA)theory and its semantic approach to assessing sources of knowledge.The article provides a concise overview of the EA theory,which advocates for a systemic perspective on cognition and knowledge.It introduces and elaborates on the core concept and model,which serve as the foundation for the proposed methodology.This methodology suggests examining knowledge objects through subjective,contextual,and epistemological realms as multi-level knowledge constructs.Emphasizing the importance of semantics in studying knowledge,categories,and meanings,the article proposes an epistemological attitude towards sources of knowledge semantic questionnaire.The article delves into the methodology,reflecting on its four consecutive stages.It begins with the formal and substantive stages,which involve selecting sources,choosing academic experts as target participants,and developing content.The procedural stage follows,in which an expert review approach is employed to assess the content validity of the method.Finally,the article discusses the semantic method,elucidating its structure,features,semantic categories,and assessment procedure.The proposed method provides a unique contribution by enabling the analysis of the epistemological and socio-psychological meanings of sources,representing them as semantic constructs.

Psychometric evaluation of a Swedish version of Krantz Health Opinion Survey

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the psychometric properties of a Swedish version of The Krantz Health Opinion Survey (KHOS). A convenience sample of 79 persons (47 men and 32 women) was recruited from The Heart and Lung Patients’ National Association at ten local meeting places in different areas in Sweden. The questionnaire was examined for face and content validity, internal consistency and test-retest reliability. The findings showed that the Swedish version of KHOS is acceptable in terms of face and content validity, internal consistency and test-retest reliability over time among 79 individuals >65 years of age and with a cardiac disease. In conclusion, wider evaluations of the psychometric use of KHOS for other populations and settings are recommended.

Saving time and effort:Best practice for adapting existing patientreported outcome measures in hepatology

It is increasingly recognised that collecting patient reported outcome measures(PROMs)data is an important part of healthcare and should be considered alongside traditional clinical assessments.As part of a more holistic view of healthcare provision,there has been an increased drive to implement PROM collection as part of routine clinical care in hepatology.This drive has resulted in an increase in the number of PROMs currently developed to be used in various liver conditions.However,the development and validation of a new PROM is time-consuming and costly.Therefore,before deciding to develop a new PROM,researchers should consider identifying existing PROMs to assess their appropriateness and,if necessary,make adaptations to existing PROMs to ensure their rigour when used with the target population.Little is written in the literature on how to identify and adapt the existing PROMs in hepatology.This article aims to provide a summary of the current literature and guidance regarding identifying and adapting existing PROMs in clinical practice.