This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Purpose To examine the construct validity of the Health Utilities Index Mark 3 (HUI3) by exploring relationships among several well-recognized ...

OBJECTIVE: The Obesity-related Problems scale (OP) is a self-assessment module developed to measure the impacts of obesity on psychosocial functioning. Our principal aim was to evaluate the construct ...

Emotional eating, defined as eating in response to a range of negative emotions, is common in youths. Yet, there are few easily administered and well-validated methods to assess emotional eating in ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Purpose To examine the longitudinal construct validity in the assessment of changes in depressive symptoms of widely used utility and generic ...

1. What is the difference between the reliability and validity of a measurement? The validity of a measure is the extent to which differences in scores on the instrument reflect true differences among ...

Background: Disease-specific Quality Of Life (QOL) measures are devised to assess the impact of a specific disease across a spectrum of important domains of life. The purpose of this study was to ...

Use of high-sensitivity cardiac troponin T to predict changes in left ventricular function in cancer patients treated with doxorubicin. Background: The Brief Pain Inventory (BPI) is a frequently used ...

In my previous blog post, I noted that reliability and validity are two essential properties of psychological measurement. Measures of intelligence, personality, vocational interests, and so forth ...