Health Measurement Scales - A Practical Guide to Their Development and Use

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.

List 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

About the author

David Streiner, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist by training. He is currently an emeritus professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences and the Department of Clinical Epidemiology at McMaster University and a professor at the University of Toronto. He is the author of nine books, 51 chapters, and over 400 articles. He was elected to the Canadian Academy of Health Services in 2022.

Geoff Norman, PhD, is an Emeritus Professor of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University. He is the author of 30 books and book chapters in education, measurement and statistics, and over 300 journal articles. He was elected to the Royal Society of Canada in 2007. He received an honorary doctorate from Erasmus University, Rotterdam in 2010. He was appointed to the Community of Distinction of McMaster University in 2018.

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.

Product details

• Authors: John Cairney, Geoffrey R. Norman, David L. Streiner, Prof David L. (Department of Psychiatry Streiner
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.02.2024
• EAN: 9780192869487
• ISBN: 978-0-19-286948-7
• No. of pages: 480
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Epidemiology & medical statistics, MEDICAL / Clinical Medicine, PSYCHOLOGY / Clinical Psychology, MEDICAL / Psychiatry / General, MEDICAL / Internal Medicine, MEDICAL / Biostatistics, MEDICAL / Epidemiology, Psychiatry, Clinical psychology, Clinical & internal medicine, Palliative Medicine, Clinical and internal medicine, MEDICAL / Pain Management, Epidemiology and Medical statistics