Comparative Addictive Rating Scale

Comparative cut-off value setting of pruritus intensity in visual analogue scale and verbal rating scale.

Inappropriate rating scale.

[email protected] Editor – We read with interest the study by Chan et al into the effect of needling HT7 on psychological stress in hospice staff. We agree that stress in hospice staff is an important problem and that a simple effective treatment would be useful. However, although Chan et al aimed to measure reductions in psychological stress, we feel that the outcome measure they chose wa...

Investigating rating scale category utility.

Eight guidelines are suggested to aid the analyst in investigating whether rating scales categories are cooperating to produce observations on which valid measurement can be based. These guidelines are presented within the context of Rasch analysis. They address features of rating-scale-based data such as category frequency, ordering, rating-to-measure inferential coherence, and the quality of ...

Pairwise Comparisons Rating Scale Paradox

This study demonstrates that incorrect data are entered into a pairwise comparisons matrix for processing into weights for the data collected by a rating scale. Unprocessed rating scale data lead to a paradox. A solution to it, based on normalization, is proposed. This is an essential correction for virtually all pairwise comparisons methods using rating scales. The illustration of the relative...

[Zung's self-rating depression scale].

Statement A little of the time Some of the time A Good part of the time Most of the time 1. I feel down-hearted and blue 1 2 3 4 2. Morning is when I feel the best. 4 3 2 1 3. I have crying spells or feel like it. 1 2 3 4 4. I have trouble sleeping at night 1 2 3 4 5. I eat as much as I used to. 4 3 2 1 6. I still enjoy sex. 4 3 2 1 7. I notice that I am losing weight. 1 2 3 4 8. I have trouble...