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Designated a Doody's Core Title
This is a valuable resource for readers seeking basic to advanced information on measurement. It should be on the bookshelf of all researchers, and a requirement for graduate nursing students. Score: 100, 5 stars--Doody's Medical Reviews
...this book is a wonderful shelf reference for nurse researcher mentors and investigators who may need to explore content or use content to design, test, select, and evaluate instruments and methods used in measuring nurse concepts and outcomes."-- Clinical Nurse Specialist
This fourth edition presents everything nurses and health researchers need to know about designing, testing, selecting, and evaluating instruments and methods for measuring in nursing. Thoroughly updated, this fourth edition now contains only the latest, most cutting-edge measurement instruments that have direct applicability for nurses and health researchers in a variety of roles, including students, clinicians, educators, researchers, administrators, and consultants.
Using clear and accessible language, the authors explain in detail, and illustrate by example, how to conduct sound measurement practices that have been adequately tested for reliability and validity. This edition is enriched with topics on the leading edge of nursing and health care research, such as measurement in the digital world, biomedical instrumentation, new clinical data collection methods, and methods for measuring quality of care.
Key features:
Provides new and emerging strategies for testing the validity of specific measures Discusses computer-based testing: the use of Internet research and data collection Investigates methods for measuring physiological variables using biomedical instrumentation Includes information on measurement practices in clinical research, focusing on clinical data collection methods, such as clinimetrics Identifies the challenges of measuring quality of care and how to address them
Table of Contents
Contributors | p. vii |
Preface | p. ix |
Acknowledgment | p. xi |
Part I Basic Principles of Measurement | |
1 Introduction to Measurement | p. 3 |
2 Operationalizing Nursing Concepts | p. 27 |
3 Measurement Theories and Frameworks | p. 49 |
Part II Understanding Measurement Design | |
4 Strategies for Designing Measurement Tools and Procedures | p. 91 |
5 Measurement Reliability | p. 145 |
6 Validity of Measures | p. 163 |
7 Standardized Approaches to Measurement | p. 203 |
8 Measurement Issues in Qualitative Research | p. 225 |
Part III Measurement via the Digital World | |
9 Using Existing Administrative and National Databases | p. 241 |
10 Computer-Based Testing | p. 251 |
11 Internet Data Collection | p. 259 |
Part IV Instrumentation and Data Collection Methods | |
12 Observational Methods | p. 271 |
13 Content Analysis | p. 279 |
14 Interviews | p. 287 |
15 Questionnaires | p. 301 |
16 The Delphi Technique | p. 311 |
17 Visual Analog Scales | p. 319 |
18 Magnitude Estimation Scaling | p. 325 |
19 Guidelines for Writing Multiple-Choice Items | p. 329 |
20 Measurement of Physiological Variables Using Biomedical Instrumentation | p. 335 |
21 Evaluation of Measurement Precision, Accuracy, and Error in Biophysical Data for Clinical Research and Practice | p. 371 |
22 Collecting Sensitive Information | p. 385 |
23 Selection and Use of Existing Instruments | p. 393 |
Part V Measurement Issues | |
24 Ethical Issues | p. 401 |
25 Issues in Measuring Quality Care | p. 417 |
26 Other Measurement Issues | p. 433 |
Index | p. 477 |