Instrument Format Issues in Assessing the Elderly: The Iowa Self-Assessment Inventory

Instrument Format Issues in Assessing the Elderly: The Iowa Self-Assessment Inventory

Findings demonstrate that older persons can provide approproate responses by filling in the bubbles printed next to the items in the instrument booklet. The subjects did not have problems filling in the bubbles, and the scale statistics from these forms were similar to corresponding data from other...

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Veröffentlicht in:Nursing research (New York) 1993-09, Vol.42 (5), p.297-299
Hauptverfasser: GILMER, JERRY S, CLEARY, T ANNE, MORRIS, WOODROW W, BUCKWALTER, KATHLEEN C, ANDREWS, PATRICIA
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Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Aged
Automatic Data Processing
Biological and medical sciences
Elderly people
Epidemiology
Female
General aspects
Geriatric Assessment
Health Surveys
Humans
Male
Measures
Medical sciences
Methodology
Nursing
Patient Satisfaction
Pilot Projects
Printing - standards
Psychometrics
Public health. Hygiene
Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine
Reading
Selfassessment
Surveys and Questionnaires
Vision Disorders - prevention & control
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Zusammenfassung:Findings demonstrate that older persons can provide approproate responses by filling in the bubbles printed next to the items in the instrument booklet. The subjects did not have problems filling in the bubbles, and the scale statistics from these forms were similar to corresponding data from other studies in which the regular ISAI forms were used.
ISSN:0029-6562
1538-9847
DOI:10.1097/00006199-199309000-00011