The Refractive Status and Vision Profile: Evaluation of psychometric properties and comparison of Rasch and summated Likert-scaling

Vision Research

Volumn 46, Issue 8-9, 2006, Pages 1375-1383

  Garamendi, Estibaliz ^a   Pesudovs, Konrad ^b   Stevens, Michael J ^a   Elliott, David B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Psychometric analysis; Quality of life; Questionnaire; Rasch analysis; Validity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; EYE REFRACTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MYOPIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RASCH ANALYSIS; REFRACTIVE SURGERY; RELIABILITY; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICS; SUMMATED RATING SCALE;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOPIA; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REFRACTIVE ERRORS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE;

EID: 30444455298     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2005.07.007     Document Type: Article

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