| Description |
1 online resource illustrations |
| Series |
Oxford medicine online |
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Oxford medicine online
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| 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-the 'jingle-jangle' 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 |
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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 |
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Answering questions: the cognitive requirements -- Optimizing and satisficing -- Social desirability and faking good -- Deviation and faking bad -- Detecting problematic responding -- Minimizing biased responding -- Yea-saying or acquiescence -- End-aversion, 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 |
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Age and sex norms -- Establishing cut points -- Receiver operating characteristic curves -- Summary -- 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 |
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Improving reliability -- Standard error of the reliability coefficient and sample size -- Reliability generalization -- Summary -- 9 Generalizability theory -- Introduction to generalizability theory -- Generalizability theory fundamentals -- Concepts in ANOVA -- Conducting the analysis in G_String -- ANOVA for statisticians and ANOVA for psychometricians -- Confidence intervals for G coefficients -- Uses and abuses of G theory -- Summary -- 10 Validity -- Introduction to validity -- Why assess validity? -- Reliability and validity -- A history of the 'types' of validity -- Content validation |
| Summary |
A new edition of this practical guide for clinicians and researchers who wish to develop tools to measure subjective states, attitudes, or non-tangible outcomes in their patients, ideal for those who have no knowledge of statistics |
| Notes |
Previous edition: 2015 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on January 10, 2024) |
| Subject |
Health status indicators -- Measurement
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Public health -- Evaluation.
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Medical care -- Evaluation.
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Epidemiologic Methods
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Medical Audit
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Health Status Indicators
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Health Surveys
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| Genre/Form |
Health surveys.
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Enquêtes sanitaires.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Norman, Geoffrey R., author.
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Cairney, John, 1968- author.
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| ISBN |
9780191965517 |
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0191965510 |
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