Hays Ron D, Hubble David, Jenkins Frank, Fraser Alexa, Carew Beryl
Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States.
Westat Inc., Rockville, MD, United States.
Front Pediatr. 2021 Aug 20;9:595059. doi: 10.3389/fped.2021.595059. eCollection 2021.
The National Children's Study (NCS) statistics and item response theory group was tasked with promoting the quality of study measures and analysis. This paper provides an overview of six measurement and statistical considerations for the NCS: (1) Conceptual and Measurement Model; (2) Reliability; (3) Validity; (4) Measurement Invariance; (5) Interpretability of Scores; and (6) Burden of administration. The guidance was based primarily on recommendations of the International Society of Quality of Life Research.
国家儿童研究(NCS)统计与项目反应理论小组的任务是提高研究措施和分析的质量。本文概述了NCS的六个测量和统计考量因素:(1)概念和测量模型;(2)信度;(3)效度;(4)测量不变性;(5)分数的可解释性;以及(6)管理负担。该指南主要基于国际生活质量研究协会的建议。