Health Measurement Scales
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This is a practical guide to developing scales used in various health fields - medicine, nursing, rehabilitation, psychology, and the like. The chapters are presented in the order in which scales are developed: devising items, testing the items, combining...
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This is a practical guide to developing scales used in various health fields - medicine, nursing, rehabilitation, psychology, and the like. The chapters are presented in the order in which scales are developed: devising items, testing the items, combining the items into scales, assessing the reliability and validity of the scales; administering the scale; and ethical considerations.
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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 abrief 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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Health Measurement Scales “
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 ; Appendices
Autoren-Porträt von David L. Streiner, Geoffrey R. Norman
Geoff Norman attended the University of Manitoba as an undergraduate, graduating with an honours degree in physics in 1965. He did graduate work in nuclear physics, obtaining a PhD in 1970. At that point he began a career in health sciences education, and subsequently obtained an M.A. in educational psychology from Michigan State University in 1977. He joined the faculty at McMaster in 1977, and has remained at McMaster for the next three decades. He has won numerous awards in medical education, including the Hubbard Award of the National Board of Medical Examiners (US), and lifetime achievement awards from the Medical Council of Canada and the American Educational Research Association, among others. In 2001, he was awarded a Canada Research Chair. In 2007, he was elected to the Royal Society of Canada. He has published over 200 papers in education, epidemiology, psychiatry and physics, as well as authoring and editing several books.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autoren: David L. Streiner , Geoffrey R. Norman
- 2008, 4th ed., 431 Seiten, mit Schwarz-Weiß-Abbildungen, Maße: 15,8 x 23,3 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- ISBN-10: 0199231885
- ISBN-13: 9780199231881
Sprache:
Englisch
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This book is a useful resource that should have a fairly broad appeal for researchers needing to develop new measurement scales, researchers who need to critically appraise literature concerned with measurement tools, and anyone interested in an accessible overview of important measurement issues and methods. The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry The text is well laid out with chapters covering basic concepts, devising the items, scaling responses, methods of administration and ethical considerations being easy to read. Occupational Medicine This is a book that can be used as a key reference book by those who wish to study qualitative change in health status by the use of scales. Occupational Medicine
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