Health Measurement Scales: A practical guide to their development and use

David L. Streiner; Geoffrey R. Norman; John Cairney

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Health Measurement Scales: A practical guide to their development and use (5 ed.)

David L. Streiner, Geoffrey R. Norman, and John Cairney

Abstract

Health Measurement Scales is the ultimate online guide to developing and validating measurement scales that are to be used in the health sciences. It 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.

Bibliographic Information

Publisher:: Oxford University Press

Print Publication Date:: Nov 2014

Print ISBN-13:: 9780199685219

Published online:: Jan 2015

DOI:: 10.1093/med/9780199685219.001.0001

Authors

David L. Streiner, author Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Canada

Geoffrey R. Norman, author Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Canada

John Cairney, author Department of Family Medicine, Professor of Child Health Research, Department of Family Medicine, McMaster University, Director, Infant and Child Health (INCH) Research Laboratory, McMaster University, Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences, McMaster University, Canada Editor-in-Chief, Current Developmental Disorders Reports

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David L. Streiner, Geoffrey R. Norman, and John Cairney

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