Health Measurement Scales: A Practical Guide to Their Development and Use

1. Introduction 2. Basic concepts 3. Devising the items 4. Scaling responses 5. Selecting the items 6. Biases in responding 7. From items to scales 8. Reliability 9. Generalizability theory 10. Validity 11. Measuring change 12. Item response theory 13. Methods of administration 14. Ethical considerations 15. Reporting test results Appendices