Dear Mark and Ceilidh
There is a chapter in our book "Evidence based Mental Health Care" which addresses this topic.
Evidenced-Based Mental Health Care
By Simon Hatcher, Mark Oakley-Browne and Robert Butler
Churchill Livingstone
ISBN: 0443073066
ISBN-13: 9780443073069
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Simon
Dr. Simon Hatcher
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Department of Psychological Medicine
Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences
The University of Auckland
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From: Evidence based health (EBH) [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Mark V. Johnston
Sent: Saturday, 28 October 2006 9:01 a.m.
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Subject: Re: Validity and reliability studies
Ceilidh Stapelkamp wrote:
> Dear Colleagues
>
> I would be grateful if anyone could advise on where to find critiques
> of, or quality checklists for, reliability and validity studies to
> inform critical appraisal of the psychometric testing literature.
>
> Many thanks, look forward to hearing from you.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Ceilidh Stapelkamp
> Health Research Reviewer
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>
Past works on psychometrics and measurement of health have been at the
level of
prinicple or statistical methods. I am happy to discover that people
(other than myself)
are interested in more definite checklists or grading schemes.
I am working with a small group here in the US which is developing a
grading
scheme for the quality of measures -- a revision of Measurement
Standards for Interdisciplinary Medical Rehabilitation, published in
1992 in
the Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. We have applied it
measures of outcome after spinal cord injury with some success as part of
a process of preparing for the next generation of intervention research in
SCI. I would be happy to share it with interested individuals (when
I finish the revised draft) willing to critique it. Send your email.
I would be keenly interested in seeing checklists or rating schemes for
measures
that others have developed.
Is there enough interest that we could begin to form an international
discussion group
on methods of grading the quality of health, activity, and quality of
life outcome
measures?
Yours,
Mark V. Johnston, PhD,
Professor, Occupational Therapy, Health Sciences,
University of Wisconsin -- Milwaukee
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