Tehran University of Medical Sciences Nursing Practice Today 2383-1154 11 1 2024 02 10 16 21 Hamid Sharif-Nia Psychosomatic Research Center, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran AND Department of Nursing, Amol Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran Long She Sunway Business School, Sunway University, Sunway, Malaysia Jason Osborne Department of Statistics, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, USA Ozkan Gorgulu Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics, Faculty of Medicine, Kirsehir Ahi Evran University, Kirsehir, Turkey Fatemeh Khoshnavay Fomani Nursing and Midwifery Care Research Center, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran Amir Hossein Goudarzian School of Nursing and Midwifery, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 2023 12 16 2023 12 25 The need for accurate measurement of constructs and understanding of diverse phenomena has prompted researchers to investigate the validity and reliability of developed measures in a continuous effort to improve our understanding of their psychometric properties. However, at times, these endeavors are flawed by serious methodological inadequacies. In this article, we discussed one example of a psychometric study that appears to be deeply flawed, providing some recommendations for remediating the issue.  https://npt.tums.ac.ir/index.php/npt/article/view/2920 https://npt.tums.ac.ir/index.php/npt/article/download/2920/598