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  title info:
    title: Health measurement scales
    sub title: a practical guide to their development and use
  name:
    name part: Streiner, David L.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author
  name:
    name part: Norman, Geoffrey R.
    role:
      role term: author
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    place:
      place term: Oxford
    publisher: Oxford University Press
    date issued: 2008
    edition: 4th ed
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xvii, 431 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
  abstract: Clinicians and those in health sciences are frequently called upon to measure subjective states such as attitudes, feelings, quality of life, educational achievement and aptitude, and learning style in their patients. This fourth edition of Health Measurement Scales enables these groups who often have limited knowledge of statistics, to both develop scales to measure non-tangible health outcomes, and better evaluate and differentiate between existing tools. It covers how the individual items are developed; various biases that can affect responses (eg social desirability, yea-saying, framing); various response options; how to select the best items in the set; how to combine them into a scale; and then how to determine the reliability and validity of the scale. It concludes with a discussion of ethical issues that may be encountered, and guidelines for reporting the results of the scale development process. Appendices include a comprehensive guide to finding existing scales, and a brief introduction to exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis. It synthesizes the theory of scale construction with practical advice, making it the ultimate guide to how to develop and validate measurement scales that are to be used in the health sciences
  table of contents: 1. Introduction -- 2. Basic concepts -- 3. Devising the items -- 4. Scaling responses -- 5. Selecting the items -- 6. Biases in responding -- 7. From items to scales -- 8. Reliability -- 9. Generalizability theory -- 10. Validity -- 11. Measuring change -- 12. Item response theory -- 13. Methods of administration -- 14. Ethical considerations -- 15. Reporting test results
  note: David L. Streiner and Geoffrey R. Norman
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index
  subject:
    topic: Health status indicators
    topic: Measurement
  subject:
    topic: Health surveys
  subject:
    topic: Medical care
    topic: Evaluation
  subject:
    topic: Public health
    topic: Evaluation
  classification: RA408.5 .S77 2008
  identifier: 0199231885
  identifier: 9780199231881
  record info:
    record creation date: 140416
    record change date: 20230115093000.0
    record identifier: 0000086485