Health Measurement Scales
Subtitle: A Practical Guide to Their Development and Use
By: By David L. Streiner, Geoffrey R. Norman and John Cairney
Edition: 6th Edition
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: February 2024
Place of publication: Oxford, United Kingdom
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 464
ISBN-13: 9780192869487; 9780192696304; 9780192696311
Copyright date: 2024
Description: Health Measurement Scales is the ultimate guide to appraising, developing, and validating measurement scales that are used in the health sciences. Written in a clear and practical style, this guide enables clinicians and researchers to both develop scales to measure subjective states and non-tangible health outcomes, as well as evaluate and differentiate among existing tools.

Topics presented in the order that scales are constructed: how the individual items are developed, biases that can affect responses, 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.

Fully updated to reflect recent developments in the field and the latest survey methods. The new edition contains updated information on generalizability theory and item response theory, and integration of qualitative research methods into scale design and testing. Including guidelines, appendices and checklists, this useful book is a must-read for any practitioner dealing with any kind of subjective measurement.
Table of contents: title: 1: Introduction to health measurement scales2: Basic concepts3: Devising the items4: Scaling responses5: Selecting the items6: Biases in responding7: From items to scales8: Reliability9: Generalizability theory10: Validity11: Measuring change12: Item response theory13: Methods of administration14: Ethical considerations15: Reporting test results