Literacy affected ability to adequately discriminate among categories in multipoint Likert Scales

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 37-46

  Chachamovich, Eduardo ^a,b   Fleck, Marcelo P ^a   Power, Mick ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Inability to read; Likert; Psychometrics; Quality of life; Rasch; Scale

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALEXIA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PATIENT CARE; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RATING SCALE; READING;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; APTITUDE; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; READING; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 57449121035     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2008.03.002     Document Type: Article

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