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Health measurement scales a practical guide to their development and use David L. Streiner, Geoffrey R. Norman and John Cairney
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Streiner, David L., author.
- Norman, Geoffrey R., author.
- Cairney, John, 1968- author.
- Series:
- Oxford medicine online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Health status indicators--Measurement.
- Health status indicators.
- Public health--Evaluation.
- Public health.
- Medical care--Evaluation.
- Medical care.
- Epidemiologic Methods.
- Health Status Indicators.
- Health Surveys.
- Medical Audit.
- Medical Subjects:
- Epidemiologic Methods.
- Health Status Indicators.
- Health Surveys.
- Medical Audit.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource illustrations
- Edition:
- Sixth edition
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford Oxford University Press 2024
- Contents:
- Cover
- Health Measurement Scales
- Copyright
- Contents
- Dedication
- 1 Introduction to health measurement scales
- Introduction to measurement
- A roadmap to the book
- A cautionary note-âthe 'jingle-âjangle' fallacies
- 2 Basic concepts
- Introduction to basic concepts
- Searching the literature
- Critical review
- Empirical forms of validity
- The two traditions of assessment
- Summary
- 3 Devising the items
- Introduction to devising items
- The source of items
- Content validity
- Generic versus specific scales and the 'fidelity versus bandwidth' issue
- Translation
- 4 Scaling responses
- Introduction to scaling responses
- Some basic concepts
- Categorical judgements
- Continuous judgements
- To rate or to rank
- Multidimensional scaling
- 5 Selecting the items
- Introduction to selecting items
- Interpretability
- Face validity
- Frequency of endorsement and discrimination
- Homogeneity of the items
- Subscales
- Multifactor inventories
- When homogeneity does not matter
- Putting it all together
- 6 Biases in responding
- Introduction to biases in responding
- The differing perspectives
- Answering questions: the cognitive requirements
- Optimizing and satisficing
- Social desirability and faking good
- Deviation and faking bad
- Detecting problematic responding
- Minimizing biased responding
- Yea-âsaying or acquiescence
- End-âaversion, positive skew, and halo
- Framing
- Biases related to the measurement of change
- Reconciling the two positions
- Proxy reporting
- Testing the items
- 7 From items to scales
- Introduction to from items to scales
- Weighting the items
- Missing items
- Multiplicative composite scores
- Transforming the final score
- Age and sex norms
- Establishing cut points
- Receiver operating characteristic curves
- 8 Reliability
- Introduction to reliability
- Basic concepts
- Philosophical implications
- Terminology
- Defining reliability
- Other considerations in calculating the reliability of a test: measuring consistency or absolute agreement
- The observer nested within subject
- Multiple observations
- Other types of reliability
- Different forms of the reliability coefficient
- Kappa coefficient versus the ICC
- The method of Bland and Altman
- Issues of interpretation
- Improving reliability
- Standard error of the reliability coefficient and sample size
- Reliability generalization
- 9 Generalizability theory
- Introduction to generalizability theory
- Generalizability theory fundamentals
- Concepts in ANOVA
- Conducting the analysis in G_âString
- ANOVA for statisticians and ANOVA for psychometricians
- Confidence intervals for G coefficients
- Uses and abuses of G theory
- 10 Validity
- Introduction to validity
- Why assess validity?
- Reliability and validity
- A history of the 'types' of validity
- Content validation
- Notes:
- Previous edition: 2015
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Electronic reproduction. Oxford Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on January 10, 2024)
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Dr. D. Sergeant Pepper Memorial Fund.
- Other Format:
- Print version
- ISBN:
- 9780191965517
- 0191965510
- Publisher Number:
- 99996111803
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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