Measurement in Health Behavior: Methods for Research and Evaluation: 1 (Jossey-Bass Public Health) - Tapa blanda

Measurement in Health Behavior is a practical, step-by-stepintroduction to the wide variety of measurement methods in thefield of health behavior research. The text addresses the practicalissues related to the development of measures of health behaviorand provides information on how to conduct the reliability andvalidity tests.

Measurement in Health Behavior offers faculty, students,researchers, and public health professionals the information theyneed to improve their knowledge of instrument development andtesting and their understanding of reliability and validity testingdiscussed in articles and reports. The book also helps improvestudents' and professionals' ability to conduct basic tests forreliability and validity and hones their skills in interpreting theresults of data analysis. Based on data collected from the author'smore than ten years of research and program development,Measurement in Health Behavior provides realistic examples from thepublic health arena to clearly demonstrate the book's concepts.

A comprehensive resource, Measurement in Health Behavior

• Presents a brief description of the different types of measuresthat are used to collect data about health behavior or associatedfactors
• Includes strategies for reducing measurement errors
• Offers information about survey development and knowledge testconstruction
• Covers information about scale development and includesimportant information related to the analysis of concepts
• Presents basic statistical concepts and puts the focus onreliability
• Offers a presentation of classical test theory and includes thedifferent types of reliability assessment
• Includes several strategies for assessing validity and presentsthe basic principles of factor analysis
• Contains an elementary description of item response theory