Construct validity and reliability of scores on scales to measure the impairment of health-related quality of life in persons with asthma

Journal of Nursing Measurement

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 21-31

  Baghi, Heibatollah ^a   Atherton, Martin ^a  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Asthma; Construct validity; Disease management; Health related quality of life; Instrumentation; Reliability

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MANAGEMENT; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PHYSICIAN; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PSYCHOMETRY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RELIABILITY; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 19044393012     PISSN: 10613749     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1891/jnum.12.1.21.66320     Document Type: Article

References (24)

1. American Educational Research Association, American Psychological Association, & the National Council on Measurement in Education. (1999). Standards for educational and psychological testing. Washington, DC: Author.
2. Cronbach, L. (1951). Coefficient alpha and the internal structure of tests, Psychometrica, 16, 297-334.
3. Gibson, P. G. (2000). Monitoring the patient with asthma: An evidence-based approach. Journal of Allergy & Clinical Immunology, 106(1, Pt. 1), 17-26.
4. Guevara, J. P., Wolf, F. M., Grum, C. M., & Clark, N. M. (2003). Effects of educational interventions for self-management of asthma in children and adolescents: Systematic review and meta-analysis. British Medical Journal, 326(7402), 1308-1309.
5. Guyatt, G. H., Townsend, M., Berman, L. B., & Pugsley, S. O. (1987). Quality of life in patients with chronic airflow limitation. British Journal of Diseases of the Chest, 81, 45-54.
6. Jones, P. W., Quirk, F. H., Baveystock, C. M., & Littlejohns, P. (1992). A self-complete measure of health status for chronic airflow limitation. The St. George's Respiratory Questionnaire. American Review of Respiratory Disease, 145(6), 1321-1327.
7. Juniper, E. F., Guyatt, G. H., Cox, F. M., Ferrie, P. J., & King, D. R. (1999). Development and validation of the Mini Asthma Quality of Life Questionnaire. European Respiratory Journal, 14(1), 32-38.
8. Juniper, E. F., Guyatt, G. H., Epstein, R. S., Ferrie, P. J., Jaeschke, R., & Hiller, T. K. (1992). Evaluation of impairment of health related quality of life in asthma: Development of a questionnaire for use in clinical trials. Thorax, 47(2), 76-83.
9. Juniper, E. F., Guyatt, G. H., Ferrie, P. J., & Griffith, L. E. (1993). Measuring quality of life in asthma. American Review of Respiratory Disease, 147(4), 832-828.
10. Kaiser, H. F. (1960). The application of electronic computers to factor analysis. Educational and Psychological Measurement, 20, 140-151.
11. Kinsman, R. A., Luparello, T., O'Banion, K., & Spector, S. (1973). Multidimensional analysis of the subjective symptomatology of asthma. Psychosomatic Medicine, 35, 250-267.
12. Kirshner, B., & Guyatt, G. H. (1985). A methodological framework for assessing health indices. Journal of Chronic Diseases, 38, 27-36.
13. Marks, G. B., Dunn, S. M., & Woolcock, A. J. (1993). An evaluation of an asthma quality of life questionnaire as a measure of change in adults with asthma. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, 46(10), 1103-1111.
14. Mertler, C. A., & Vannatta, R. A. (2002). Advanced and multivariate statistical methods. Los Angeles: Pyrczak.
15. Nunnally, J., & Bernstein, I. (1994). Psychometric theory. New York: McGraw-Hill.
16. Patel, A. M. (2001). Using the Internet in the management of asthma. Current Opinion in Pulmonary Medicine, 7(1), 39-42.
17. Pedhazur, E. J., & Schmelkin, L. P. (1991). Measurement, design, and analysis. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
18. Redd, S. C. (2002). Asthma in the United States: Burden and current theories. Environmental Health Perspectives, 110(Suppl. 4), 557-560.
19. Smith, S. P. (2002). Internet visits: A new approach to chronic disease management. Journal of Medical Practice Management, 17(6), 330-332.
20. SPSS. (2003). SPSS for Windows, version 11.0 [Computer software]. Chicago: Author.
21. Stevens, P. J. (2002). Applied multivariate statistics for the social sciences. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
22. Stewart, A. L., Hays, R. D., & Ware J. E. (1988). The MOS short term general health survey. Medical Care, 24, 724-732.
23. Thompson, B. (1996). Factor analysis evidence for the construct validity of scores: A historical overview of some guidelines. Educational and Psychological Measurement, 56, 197-208.
24. Wenzel, S. (2003). Pathology of difficult asthma. Paediatric Respiratory Reviews, 4(4), 306-311.