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The BETA® nursing measure: Calibrating construct validity with Rasch analyses

Health SA Gesondheid: Journal of Interdisciplinary Health Sciences, 2015
Background: The BETA nursing measure has been introduced as a tool to routinely measure and monitor the outcomes of patients' activities of daily living in a restorative nursing care context. Objectives: To investigate the BETA's construct validity using
Hendrik J. Loubser, Daleen Casteleijn, Judith C. Bruce   +2 more
doaj   +3 more sources

Psychometric properties of the 12-item short form health survey version 2 among general Thai samples: a Rasch analysis

Journal of Pharmaceutical Policy and Practice
Background Although the 12-item Short Form Health Survey version 2 (SF-12v2) is suitable for measuring health status in the general Thai population, it has been evaluated using classical test theory. Rasch analysis, however, offers a psychometric testing
Krittaphas Kangwanrattanakul
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Using Rasch analysis to form plausible health states amenable to valuation: the development of CORE-6D from CORE-OM in order to elicit preferences for common mental health problems [PDF]

, 2011
Purpose: To describe a new approach for deriving a preference-based index from a condition specific measure that uses Rasch analysis to develop health states.
A Tennant, AB Smith, AM Gray, C Chatfield, C Evans, C Evans, CA Sugar, D Chisholm, D Feeny, EV Smith Jr, G Willige van de, GA Miller, Ifigeneia Mavranezouli, J Brazier, J Brazier, J Brazier, J Brazier, J Brazier, J Moock, JE Brazier, JE Brazier, John E. Brazier, L McKenzie, M Barkham, M Barkham, M Barkham, M Knapp, Michael Barkham, P Dolan, T Young, TA Young, TG Bond, Tracey A. Young, Y Yang   +33 more
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FDI in Services: How Data Provisions Are Shaping the New Global Economy

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Coinciding with a process of slowbalization in goods, cross‐border flows of services have experienced a sharp increase, with FDI through commercial presence emerging as the dominant mode of international services supply. At the same time, a growing number of trade agreements have incorporated binding data‐related provisions aimed at regulating
Carmen Díaz‐Mora, Erena García‐López, Belén Gonzalez‐Díaz   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cognitive Ability-Demand Gap Analysis With Latent Response Models

IEEE Access, 2014
A better understanding of human cognitive ability-demand gap (ADG) is critical in designing assistive technology solution that is accurate and adaptive over a wide range of human-agent interaction.
Gahangir Hossain, Mohammed Yeasin
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Development and validity testing of an IPF-specific version of the St George's Respiratory Questionnaire [PDF]

, 2010
Rationale The St George's Respiratory Questionnaire (SGRQ) is often applied to assess health-related quality of life in patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF). Some SGRQ items will inevitably have weaker measurement properties than others when
Jones, PW, Swigris, JJ, Yorke, J
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Impact of mono‐ or multitherapy on ocular surface health and quality of life after 5 years of follow‐up in the Glaucoma Intensive Treatment Study (GITS)

Acta Ophthalmologica, EarlyView.
Abstract Aim To evaluate the impact of initial mono‐ versus multitherapy on the ocular surface and related quality of life after 5 years follow‐up in the Glaucoma Intensive Treatment Study (GITS). Method The study included patients with primary open‐angle glaucoma and pseudoexfoliation glaucoma who completed 5‐year follow‐up in GITS.
Gauti Jóhannesson, Christina Lindén, Johan Aspberg, Sabina Andersson‐Geimer, Anders Heijl, Boel Bengtsson, Dorothea Peters   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Patient‐reported outcomes and visual function after four refractive strategies in cataract surgery: A randomized controlled trial

Acta Ophthalmologica, EarlyView.
Abstract Purpose To evaluate patient‐reported outcome measures (PROMs) and visual function across four groups of public cataract patients: emmetropia, mini‐monovision, monovision with partial‐range of field (RoF) narrow intraocular lenses (IOLs) and patients implanted with partial‐RoF extended IOLs.
Anne Guldhammer Skov, Morten la Cour, Birgitte Moldow, Lars Holm, Therese Krarup   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Validation of The Vocabulary Level Test With The Rasch Model

مجلة اداب ذي قار
The most significant feature of any prosperous measuring implement is validity. Briefly, This work outlines the six sides of the Messickian validity framework.
Ahmed Sattar, Omar Ahmed
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Validation of the Rasch-based Depression Screening in a large scale German general population sample

Health and Quality of Life Outcomes, 2010
Background The study aimed at presenting normative data for both parallel forms of the "Rasch-based Depression Screening (DESC)", to examine its Rasch model conformity and convergent and divergent validity based on a representative sample of the German ...
Norra Christine, Brähler Elmar, Glaesmer Heide, Wirtz Markus, Boecker Maren, Forkmann Thomas, Gauggel Siegfried   +6 more
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