Year: 2003
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: In the last decade a large number of self-report questionnaires have been developed, which are designed to assess disease-specific physical functioning (i.e. the performance of daily activities).The choice of which questionnaire to use may be based on the study population, on the purpose of the questionnaire, on practical considerations (e.g.ease of scoring, and time to complete), and on its psychometric performances.Unfortunately, there are only a few publications about the comparison of content and psychometric quality of these questionnaires.Consequently, little evidence is available to guide the clinician and researcher during questionnaire selection.To evaluate the psychometric properties of self-report questionnaires standardized criteria are needed.We developed a checklist to evaluate the psychometric quality of self-report questionnaires in terms of validity, reproducibility, responsiveness, interpretability and practical burden.This checklist was applied in a systematic review of the psychometric properties of shoulder disability questionnaires.For each questionnaire all papers reporting on its psychometric properties were retrieved and submitted to quality assessment using this checklist.The checklist A checklist was composed to evaluate and compare the psychometric properties of the questionnaire according to the following steps: (i) evaluation of methods used for development of a self-report questionnaire; (ii) evaluation of the design and conduct of studies reporting on the psychometric properties of the
Language: English
Subfield: Research and Theory
Field: Nursing
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2129752464