Health Measurement Scales A practical guide to their development and use
Health Measurement Scales A practical guide to their development and use
- ISBN 13:
9780199685219
- ISBN 10:
0199685215
- Edition: 5th
- Format: Paperback
- Copyright: 01/02/2015
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Summary
Health Measurement Scales is the ultimate guide to developing and validating measurement scales that are to be used in the health sciences. The book covers how the individual items are developed; various biases that can affect responses (e.g. 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 finally 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, making this book a must-read for any practitioner dealing with this kind of data.