Item response theory: How Mokken scaling can be used in clinical practice

Journal of Clinical Nursing

Volumn 21, Issue 19-20, 2012, Pages 2736-2746

  Watson, Roger ^a,g   Van der Ark, L Andries ^b   Lin, Li Chan ^c   Fieo, Robert ^d   Deary, Ian J ^e   Meijer, Rob R ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^g UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Activities of daily living; Dementia; Item response theory; Mokken scaling; Nurses; Nursing; Psychometrics; Scalability

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DEMENTIA; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEMENTIA; HUMANS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESEARCH DESIGN; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84866520514     PISSN: 09621067     EISSN: 13652702     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2702.2011.03893.x     Document Type: Article

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