Faleiros Sousa F A, da Silva J A
Rev Lat Am Enfermagem. 1996 Jul;4(2):147-78.
Concepts and subjective phenomena such as social attitudes, opinions, and judgment processes have always been difficult to measure accurately. Many concepts or variables in nursing are of a subjective nature. As with the social sciences, the nursing profession has faced many problems in attempting to obtain precise measurements of such variables. The psychophysical methodology, specially the magnitude estimation and cross-modality matching procedures, developed in sensory psychophysics and currently being used in the social sciences, shows promise for providing nursing with an instrument of precisely scaling subjective phenomena. The purpose of this paper is to describe these measurement techniques, the theoretical paradigm on which it is based, and several social, clinical and nursing studies that have utilized these sensitive measurement strategies.
诸如社会态度、观点和判断过程等概念及主观现象一直难以精确衡量。护理领域的许多概念或变量都具有主观性。与社会科学一样，护理专业在试图精确测量此类变量时面临诸多问题。感官心理物理学中发展起来且目前在社会科学中使用的心理物理方法，特别是量值估计和交叉模态匹配程序，有望为护理提供一种精确衡量主观现象的工具。本文旨在描述这些测量技术、其基于的理论范式，以及一些运用了这些敏感测量策略的社会、临床和护理研究。
