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Assessing psychosocial/quality of life outcomes in screening: how do we do it better?
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Brodersen, John Thorsen, Hanne Kristin McKenna, Stephen P. Doward, Lynda C. |
| Copyright Year | 2005 |
| Abstract | We read with interest McCaffery and Barratt's editorial on assessing psychosocial and quality of life outcomes in screening.1 We agree that it is necessary to show greater concern about the reliability and validity of outcome measures used but would also argue that it is equally as important to be clear about which outcomes are being assessed and how outcome data should be analysed and interpreted. In their study Marteau and colleagues selected five items from a generic measure of health status (the SF-36).2 No explanation was given of why these particular items were selected, why they should be added together, what the label “self assessed health” actually means, or why it was relevant to the study. The five items clearly assess more than one construct. The item asking for a rating of health is a measure of impairment while the other four assess health beliefs that may have no relation … |
| Starting Page | 115 |
| Ending Page | 124 |
| Page Count | 10 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| PubMed reference number | 15965147 |
| Journal | Medline |
| Volume Number | 59 |
| Issue Number | 7 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://jech.bmj.com/content/jech/59/7/609.full.pdf |
| Journal | Journal of epidemiology and community health |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
