Reliability in the development and evaluation of measurement instruments in the health field
ABSTRACT The evaluation of interventions and treatments currently seeks to comprise subjective variables, highlighting the importance of the patient’s perspective regarding the disease and treatment effects. These measurements must be reliable and meet basic properties such as validity, reliability,...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2013 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Universidade Federal de Goiás (UFG) |
| Repositorio: | Revista Eletrônica de Enfermagem |
| Idioma: | portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.revistas.ufg.br:article/20776 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://revistas.ufg.br/fen/article/view/20776 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Validation Studies Psychometrics Reproducibility of Results Questionnaires Estudios de Validación Psicometría Reproducibilidad de Resultados Cuestionarios Estudos de Validação Psicometria Reprodutibilidade dos Testes Questionários |
| Sumario: | ABSTRACT The evaluation of interventions and treatments currently seeks to comprise subjective variables, highlighting the importance of the patient’s perspective regarding the disease and treatment effects. These measurements must be reliable and meet basic properties such as validity, reliability, sensitivity and responsiveness, which represent a broad and extensive methodological evaluation repertoire. The objective was to perform a literature review regarding the concept and methods of evaluating the reliability of measurement instruments, through a bibliographic search on the main databases in the health field. After selecting and analyzing the texts, the information was organized, and a presentation was made of the conceptual bases and methods used to evaluate the reliability of those instruments, including stability, equivalence and internal consistency. It is essential to establish reliability to demonstrate the methodological quality of measurement instruments. Furthermore, the other psychometric properties of an instrument must be verified, thus guaranteeing the trustworthiness of the evaluation process. Descriptors: Validation Studies; Psychometrics; Reproducibility of Results; Questionnaires. |
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