scholarly journals Measurement and conceptualization of maternal PTSD following childbirth: Psychometric properties of the City Birth Trauma Scale—French Version (City BiTS-F).

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vania Sandoz ◽  
Coraline Hingray ◽  
Suzannah Stuijfzand ◽  
Alain Lacroix ◽  
Wissam El Hage ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Psychometric Properties ◽  
Birth Trauma ◽  
French Version ◽  
The City

scholarly journals Assessment of Childbirth-Related PTSD: Psychometric Properties of the German Version of the City Birth Trauma Scale

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tobias Weigl ◽  
Franziska Marie Lea Beck-Hiestermann ◽  
Nikola Maria Stenzel ◽  
Sven Benson ◽  
Manfred Schedlowski ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
High Risk ◽  
Psychometric Properties ◽  
Community Sample ◽  
Birth Trauma ◽  
German Version ◽  
Event Scale ◽  
Dsm 5 ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The City

Background: About 3–4% of women in community samples suffer from childbirth-related posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Surprisingly, the recently developed City Birth Trauma Scale (City BiTS) was the first diagnostic tool for childbirth-related PTSD covering DSM-5 criteria for PTSD. Since no questionnaire on childbirth-related PTSD is available in German, we aimed to validate a German translation of the City BiTS and to provide information on its psychometric properties.Methods: A community sample of 1,072 mothers completed an online survey, which included questions on sociodemographic and obstetric characteristics, the German version of the City BiTS, the Impact of Event Scale-Revised (IES-R), the PTSD Checklist for DSM-5 (PCL-5), Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS), and the anxiety subscale of the Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Scale (DASS-Anxiety).Results: Exploratory factor analysis (EFA) on a random split-half sample confirmed the previously reported two-factorial structure of the City BiTS. The factors “Childbirth-related symptoms” and “General symptoms” explained about 53%, 52% of variance. Internal consistency was good to excellent for the subscales and the total scale (Cronbach's Alpha = 0.89−0.92). In a confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) in the holdout sample the two-factorial solution reached the best model fit out of three models. Correlation analyses showed convergent validity of the City BiTS (total scale and subscales) with the IES-R and PCL-5 and divergent validity with the EPDS and the DASS-Anxiety.Limitations: Data were acquired in a community sample and prevalence rates might not be representative for mothers of high-risk groups, e.g., after preterm birth.Conclusions: The German version of the City BiTS is the first German questionnaire which allows to assess symptoms of childbirth-related PTSD according to DSM-5 criteria. Besides an improvement in clinical routine it will help to make data on prevalence of childbirth-related PTSD internationally comparable. In addition, this work provides a basis to assess childbirth-related PTSD in studies conducted with a longitudinal study design or in high-risk samples.

scholarly journals Validity of the French version of Catquest-9SF and use of an electronic notepad for entering patient-reported outcome measures

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gregory Katz ◽  
Alexandra Rouquette ◽  
François Lignereux ◽  
Thierry Mourgues ◽  
Michel Weber ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cataract Surgery ◽  
Psychometric Properties ◽  
Rasch Analysis ◽  
Item Difficulty ◽  
Patient Reported Outcome Measures ◽  
Patient Reported Outcome ◽  
Good Precision ◽  
French Version ◽  
Patient Reported ◽  
Before And After

Abstract Background The Catquest-9SF questionnaire is a patient reported outcome measure that quantifies the visual benefits from cataract surgery. The purpose of this study was to translate and adapt the Catquest-9SF questionnaire for France, to assess its psychometric properties via Rasch analysis, and to assess its validity when completed using an electronic notepad. Methods The Catquest-9SF questionnaire was translated following the guidelines of the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research. Catquest-9SF and clinical data were collected from patients before and after routine cataract surgery. All questionnaire data were collected via an electronic notepad. Rasch analysis was performed to assess psychometric properties, and sensitivity to change was analysed for patients with complete paired pre- and post-operative questionnaires. Results A complete filled-in preoperative questionnaire was obtained for 848 patients. Rasch analysis showed good precision (person separation: 2.32, person reliability: 0.84), ordered category probability curves, no item misfit, and unidimensionality. The respondents were slightly more able than the level of item difficulty (targeting: −1.12 logits). Sensitivity was analysed on 211 paired questionnaires, and the postoperative questionnaires showed a clear ceiling effect. The effect size was 2.6. The use of an electronic notepad for completing the questionnaire worked out very well after some adjustments. Conclusions The French version of Catquest-9SF has good psychometric properties and is suitable for use in French-speaking patients. The use of the Catquest-9SF questionnaire in an electronic format showed good validity.

scholarly journals The Level of Using Information Storage Strategies for Memorizing the Holy Qur'an by the Koranic School Students in the City of Batna in Algeria

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 221
Author(s):  
Makhloufi Said
Keyword(s):  
Psychometric Properties ◽  
Information Storage ◽  
School Level ◽  
Organizational Strategies ◽  
School Students ◽  
Academic Level ◽  
Descriptive Approach ◽  
The City ◽  
Academic Year ◽  
Koranic School

This study aimed to identify the level of using Information storage strategies formemorizing the Qur'an by the koranic school students in light of the variables: Gender, academic level, and age. To achieve the objectives of the study, the researcher used descriptive approach. The researcher applied a questionnaire of his design after confirming its psychometric properties on a sample of 82 students, including 40 males and 42 females within koranic schools in the city of Batna Algeria, for the academic year 2014/2015. The results showed the koranic school students use regulatory, cognitive, and emotional strategies respectively to save the koran and that the level of using of these strategies was 74,3%. The results also showed a statistically significant differences in the level of using these strategies due to gender. Cognitive and organizational strategies came in favor of females while emotional strategy came in favor of males. The results showed also statistically significant differences in the level of using these strategies in favor of the school level (secondary, and university) within cognitive and organizational strategies. No statistically significant differences was found among the sample in regard to age.

Femme fatale

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Felicity Chaplin
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Film Noir ◽  
Cultural Tradition ◽  
American Film ◽  
Femme Fatale ◽  
French Version ◽  
Female Protagonists ◽  
French Film ◽  
French Culture ◽  
The City

The association of woman with Paris and death was a popular trope in nineteenth-century French culture and finds expression in cinematic representations of the Parisienne as femme fatale. This chapter considers la Parisienne as femme fatale in Jules Dassin’s Du rififi chez les hommes (1955), Marcel Carné’s Le jour se lève(1939) and Le quai des brumes(1938), and Jean-Luc Godard’s A bout de souffle (1960). These films can be considered examples of French film noir and their female protagonists read as femme fatales. However, the femme fatale of French film noir is different from the femme fatale of American film noir; she comes from a different cultural tradition and is informed by a different cultural figure. This chapter argues that the development of the femme fatale as a cinematicarchetype passed through a cultural tradition not usually associated with the noir genre: nineteenth-century French culture and the tradition of the filles d’Eve embodied in the type la Parisienne. The French version of this archetype grew out of the popular nineteenth-century trope of the association of woman with the city and death. Indeed, there is an aesthetic and narrative overdetermination of the femme fatale by the figure of la Parisienne, particularly through iconographical motifs associated with the type, like fashion, ambiguity, sexuality and danger

scholarly journals Disgust assessment: Factorial structure and psychometric properties of the French version of the Disgust Propension and Sensibility Scale Revised-12

PLoS ONE ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. e0210639 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caroline Novara ◽  
Julie Boiché ◽  
Cindy Lebrun ◽  
Alexandra Macgregor ◽  
Yohan Mateo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Psychometric Properties ◽  
Factorial Structure ◽  
French Version

scholarly journals French version of the Rating Scale for Aggressive Behaviour in the Elderly (F-RAGE): Psychometric properties and diagnostic accuracy

2013 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 278-285 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barry Adama ◽  
Calvet Benjamin ◽  
Clément Jean-Pierre ◽  
Druet-Cabanac Michel ◽  
Prado-Jean Annie
Keyword(s):  
Diagnostic Accuracy ◽  
Psychometric Properties ◽  
Aggressive Behaviour ◽  
Rating Scale ◽  
Internal Consistency Reliability ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Clinical Impression ◽  
Validity And Reliability ◽  
French Version ◽  
Clinical Diagnoses

ABSTRACT Aggressive behaviour is the most disturbing and distressing behaviour displayed by elderly people. The prevalence of aggressive behaviour is around 50% among psychogeriatric patients. Objective: This study sought to analyze the psychometric properties and diagnostic accuracy of the French version of the Rating Scale for Aggressive Behaviour in the Elderly (F-RAGE). Methods: The F-RAGE was administered to 79 patients hospitalized in a geriatric psychiatry department. A psychiatrist, who was blind to the subjects' RAGE scores, performed the diagnosis for aggressivity based on global clinical impression. The F-RAGE and MMSE were applied by a trained researcher blind to subjects' clinical diagnoses while the Cohen-Mansfield Agitation Inventory and Neuropsychiatric Inventory were administered by medical and nursing staff. Internal consistency, reliability, cut-off points, sensitivity and specificity for F-RAGE were estimated. Results: F-RAGE showed satisfactory validity and reliability measurements. Regarding reliability, Cronbach's a coefficient was satisfactory with a value of 0.758. For diagnostic accuracy, a cut-off point of 8 points (sensitivity=74.19%; specificity=97.98%) and area under curve of 0.960 were estimated to distinguish between aggressive patients and control subjects. Discussion: F-RAGE showed acceptable psychometric properties, supported by evidence of validity and reliability for its use in the diagnosis of aggressive behaviour in elderly.

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