Questionnaire Design and Attitude Measurement

Thinning Measurement Models and Questionnaire Design

Inferring key unobservable features of individuals is an important task in the applied sciences. In particular, an important source of data in fields such as marketing, social sciences and medicine is questionnaires: answers in such questionnaires are noisy measures of target unobserved features. While comprehensive surveys help to better estimate the latent variables of interest, aiming at a h...

Dynamic-Structural Attitude Unit: Concept and Measurement

Design and psychometrics of nursing education challenges questionnaire

Introduction: The nursing education course faces challenges that can be solved with simple and low-cost measures if properly identified. Otherwise, the challenges will turn into a crisis and their solution will be difficult and costly. However, there is no tool available to examine the challenges of nursing education in Iran. Method: This research is a combined study that was conducted in two s...

Development and validation of IMAQ: Integrative Medicine Attitude Questionnaire

BACKGROUND Complementary/alternative medicine and integrative medicine (CAM/IM) are increasingly used in the U.S. We set out to develop and validate a brief questionnaire measuring health care provider and medical student attitudes regarding these approaches to healthcare. METHODS IMAQ is a 29-item, 7-point Likert scale rated instrument, developed from focus groups consisting of faculty, fell...

Attitude scale and general health questionnaire subscales predict depression?

BACKGROUND According to Beck theory, dysfunctional attitude has a central role in emergence of depression. The aim of this study was to determine contributions of dysfunctional attitude and general health index to depression. METHODS In this case-control study, two groups of subjects participated. The first group consisted of 65 patients with major depression and dysthymic disorder, who were ...