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Recommendations for reporting the results of studies of instrument and scale development and testing.
- Source :
- Journal of Advanced Nursing (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.); Sep2014, Vol. 70 Issue 9, p1970-1979, 10p, 1 Chart
- Publication Year :
- 2014
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Abstract
- Scales and instruments play an important role in health research and practice. It is important that studies that report on their psychometric properties do so in a way such that readers can understand what was done and what was found. This paper is a guide to writing articles about the development and assessment of these tools. It covers what should be in the abstract and how key words should be chosen. The article then discusses what should be in the main parts of the paper: the introduction, methods, results and discussion. In each of these parts, it suggests the statistical tests that should be used and how to report them. The emphasis throughout the paper is that reliability and validity are not fixed properties of a scale, but depend on an interaction among it, the population being evaluated and the circumstances under which the instrument is administered. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- ABSTRACTING
ANALYSIS of variance
AUTHORSHIP
CONFIDENCE intervals
STATISTICAL correlation
EXPERIMENTAL design
RESEARCH methodology
PUBLISHING
RESEARCH evaluation
RESEARCH ethics
STATISTICS
WORLD Wide Web
INFORMATION resources
SAMPLE size (Statistics)
INTER-observer reliability
MULTITRAIT multimethod techniques
RESEARCH methodology evaluation
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 03092402
- Volume :
- 70
- Issue :
- 9
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Journal of Advanced Nursing (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.)
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 97431972
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1111/jan.12402