Health attitude scale construction: importance of psychometric evidence.
OBJECTIVE
To identify 18 steps to 3-component attitude scale construction.


METHODS
Examples are provided to illustrate each step.


RESULTS
The presentation primarily focused on specific steps in constructing meaningful health attitude scales. Further, the importance and concept of various forms of realibilty and validity are provided. Special attention is given to factors affectiving psychometric evidence.


CONCLUSIONS
In order to meaningfully measure health related attitudes, researchers and evaluators should consider following the steps outline in the presentation.
Torabi
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Department of Applied Health Science, Indiana University, Bloomington 47405, USA. torabi@indiana.edu
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D001294:Attitude to Health; D005194:Family Practice; D017408:Guidelines as Topic; D015438:Health Behavior; D006801:Humans; D011581:Psychological Tests; D011594:Psychometrics / Q000379:methods*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012309:Risk-Taking; D012494:Sampling Studies