Comparing Traditional and Rasch Analyses of the Mississippi PTSD Scale: Revealing Limitations of Reverse-Scored Items

Journal of Applied Measurement

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 15-30

  Conrad, Kendon J ^a,b   Wright, Benjamin D ^c   McKnight, Patrick ^d   McFall, Miles ^e   Fontana, Alan ^f   Rosenheck, Robert ^f  

^a HINES VA HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^e VA PUGET SOUND HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^f YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FACTOR ANALYSIS; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER (PTSD); RASCH ANALYSIS; TRUE SCORE THEORY (TST);

CORRELATION METHODS; HEALTH CARE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PSYCHOLOGY COMPUTING; RELIABILITY THEORY;

MEASUREMENT THEORY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; PSYCHOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; VETERAN;

ADULT; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; VETERANS;

EID: 0442311045     PISSN: 15297713     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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