The development and validation of an instrument to measure the quality of health research reports in the lay media

BMC Public Health

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Zeraatkar, Dena ^a   Obeda, Michael ^b   Ginsberg, Jeffrey S ^a   Hirsh, Jack ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Health information; Health media reports; Health research reporting; Psychometrics; Quality assessment; Scale development

Indexed keywords

CONSTRUCT VALIDITY; FACE VALIDITY; HUMAN; INSTRUMENT VALIDATION; INTERVIEW; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PSYCHOMETRY; PUBLISHING; RELIABILITY; SCIENTIST; VALIDATION PROCESS; DEVICES; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; PROCEDURES; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCIBILITY; RESEARCH; STANDARDS;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; HUMANS; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESEARCH REPORT; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 85018484574     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12889-017-4259-y     Document Type: Article

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