Why do some countries emerge from civil war more democratic than when they entered into
it, while others remain staunchly autocratic? Observers widely depict internal conflict as a …

The development and cross-cultural adaptation of measurement instruments have received
less attention in methodological discussions, even though it is essential for epidemiological …

Objective Stress impacts the quality of life and is associated with increased risk of mental
and physical disorders. The Perceived Stress Scale (PSS) is widely used for measuring …

Background Committed action is a relatively understudied facet of the psychological
flexibility model but a potentially important process of overt behaviour in relation to chronic …

Objectives This cross-sectional study was designed to measure burnout and its impact on
risk of depression in a medical student population, comparing the preclinical and clinical …

Objective Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, social stigma towards COVID-19 infection has
become a major component of public discourse and social phenomena. As such, we aimed …

Poverty is strongly associated with mortality from COPD, but little is known of its relation to
airflow obstruction. In a cross-sectional study of adults aged≥ 40 years from 12 sites (N …

This study aimed to assess the dimensional structure, reliability, convergent validity,
discriminant validity, and scalability of the Perceived Stress Scale (PSS). The sample …

Housing insecurity is a pervasive challenge in the cities and urban areas of low-and middle-
income countries, particularly in the informal settlements where a disproportionately high …

Mokken scale analysis (MSA) is a probabilistic‐nonparametric approach to item response
theory (IRT) that can be used to evaluate fundamental measurement properties with less …