a primer for the health professions Polit, Denise F. creator author. Yang, Frances author. text bibliography Print books. pau [2016] 2016 2016 monographic eng

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x, 350 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm Basics of measurement -- Types of measurement -- Measurement properties : an overview -- Challenges in scale development -- Scale development : classical test theory -- Scale development : item response theory -- Developing clinimetric measures -- Reliability : test--retest, parallel test, inter-rater, and intra-rater reliability -- Internal consistency -- Measurement error -- Content validity and face validity -- Criterion validity -- Construct validity : hypothesis testing -- Construct validity : structural validity -- Cross-cultural validity -- Interpretation of scores -- Change scores and their reliability -- Responsiveness -- The interpretation of change scores. Denise F. Polit, PhD, President, Humanalysis, Inc., Saratoga Springs, New York, Professor, Griffith University, Centre for Health, Practice Innovation, Brisbane, Australia, Frances M. Yang, PhD, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, Medical College of Georgia, Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Georgia Regents University, Augusta, Georgia. Includes bibliographical references and index. Epidemiologic Methods Health Care Evaluation Mechanisms R853 .P65 2016 610.73 WA 950 9781451194494 (pbk.) 2014042604 DNLM/DLC 141028 20161026151502.0 18353241