Health Measurement Scales: A Practical Guide To Their...
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Item#: | 9780199685219 |
Edition | 05 |
Author | Streiner, Et Al. |
Cover | Paperback |
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 fifth edition of Health Measurement Scales enables these groups to
both develop scales to measure non-tangible health outcomes, and better evaluate and differentiate between existing tools.
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.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction to Health Measurement Scales
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
Appendix A: Where to find tests
Appendix B:A (very) brief introduction to factor analysis
Author Index
Subject Index
Review Quotes
Review from previous edition: \"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 March 2011
\"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 March 2011
\"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 2010