Item reduction based on rigorous methodological guidelines is necessary to maintain validity when shortening composite measurement scales

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 66, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 710-718

  Goetz, Christophe ^a   Coste, Joël ^a   Lemetayer, Fabienne ^a   Rat, Anne Christine ^a   Montel, Sébastien ^a   Recchia, Sophie ^a,b   Debouverie, Marc ^a   Pouchot, Jacques ^a   Spitz, Elisabeth ^a   Guillemin, Francis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LUXEMBOURG   (Luxembourg)

Author keywords

Composite measurement scale; Methodology; Psychometrics; Recommendations; Short form; Shortening

Indexed keywords

CONTENT ANALYSIS; CONTENT VALIDITY; INSTRUMENT VALIDATION; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; MEASUREMENT; METHODOLOGY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

DATA COLLECTION; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; HUMANS; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESEARCH DESIGN; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84878241846     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: 18785921     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2012.12.015     Document Type: Review

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