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Measuring Health: A Guide to Rating Scales and Questionnaires First Edition, Seventh Impression Edition
Author(s): Ian McDowell (Author), Claire Newell (Contributor)
- Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
- Publication Date: 21 May 1987
- Edition: First Edition, Seventh Impression
- Language: English
- Print length: 356 pages
- ISBN-10: 0195041011
- ISBN-13: 9780195041019
Book Description
This is a convenient guide to the health measurement methods used in health and social surveys, epidemiological studies, and clinical trials. It describes the theory and the leading methods of measurement, all of which rely on subjective judgments in questionnaires and rating scales. The authors discuss the validity and reliability of each method, showing readers how to select the most suitable one, apply it, and score the results. Epidemiologists and health care researchers; social scientists; health care planners and analysts.
