Health Measurement Scales

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.

• 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

Review from previous edition This book is a useful resource that should have a fairly broad appeal for researchers needing to develop new measurement scales, researchers who need to critically appraise literature concerned with measurement tools, and anyone interested in an accessible overview of important measurement issues and methods.