Children & adolescents' Sense of Coherence and methodological related measurement issues

Health Measurement Scales: Methodological Issues

Health scales or indices are composite tools aiming to measure a variety of clinical conditions, behaviors, attitudes and beliefs that are difficult to be measured quantitatively. During the past years, these tools have been extensively used in cardiovascular disease prevention. The already proposed scales have shown good ability in assessing individual characteristics, but had moderate predict...

Addressing psychiatric and psychosocial issues related to children and adolescents

Teena M. McGuinness, PhD, CRNP, FAAN; and COL John P. McGuinness, MD © 20 14 Sh ut te rst oc k.c om /b ike rlo nd on ABSTRACT Since 2001, the rapid pace of deployments of military personnel who are parents has created additional concern for the emotional and behavioral health of their children. Repeated deployments create prolonged periods of uncertainty and an increased sense of danger on the ...

The measurement of active errors: methodological issues.

The value of research in any topic area turns on its validity. Patient safety research has revealed--or, at least, given renewed urgency to--a raft of methodological issues. The meaning and thus the value of empirical research in this field is contingent on getting the methodology right. The need for good methods for the measurement of error is necessary whenever an inference is intended and, s...

Methodological issues in designing a multisite trial of risperidone in children and adolescents with autism.

OBJECTIVE To describe the methodological challenges and decisions made in developing a multisite, controlled study of risperidone in children and adolescents with autism. METHODS Review the design considerations for clinical trials in children with autistic disorder accompanied by severe tantrums, aggressive and/or self-injurious behaviors. These design considerations include the definition o...

Methodological Issues in the Measurement of Income and Poverty