A comparison of three methods of assessing differential item functioning (DIF) in the Hospital Anxiety Depression Scale: ordinal logistic regression, Rasch analysis and the Mantel chi-square procedure

Quality of Life Research

Volumn 23, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 2883-2888

  Cameron, Isobel M ^a   Scott, Neil W ^a   Adler, Mats ^b   Reid, Ian C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Depression; Differential item functioning; Item bias; Questionnaires

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOLOGY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; TEST ANXIETY SCALE;

EID: 84930788409     PISSN: 09629343     EISSN: 15732649     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11136-014-0719-3     Document Type: Article

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