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Praise for the Previous Edition:
"This is a valuable resource for readers seeking basic to advanced information on measurement. It should be on the bookshelf of all researchers, and a requirement for graduate nursing students." Score: 100, 5 stars
-- Doody's Medical Reviews
"...this book is a wonderful shelf reference for nurse researcher mentors and investigators who may need to explore content or use content to design, test, select, and evaluate instruments and methods used in measuring nurse concepts and outcomes."
--Clinical Nurse Specialist
"Presents clearly the methodological principles for research planning in nursing with examples that facilitate the understanding of them. Excellent." 5.0 out of 5 stars
--Nursing Research
This highly popular resource—written in an easy-to-read style and format-- delivers everything nurses and other health researchers need to know about designing, testing, selecting, and evaluating instruments and methods for measurement in nursing. The Fifth Edition features the most current content, strategies, and procedures available with direct applicability to nurses and health researchers engaging in interprofessional research, collaboration, education, and evidence-based practice. Five new chapters focus on challenges to using big data, evaluation and measurement in interprofessional practice and education, metrics and benchmarking in health professions education and practice, and measurement issues in translational science.
The book gives particular attention to measurement issues resulting from changes in nursing, health research, and the increased emphasis on and undertaking of interprofessional research and evaluation. Presenting the material in step-by-step format, the book is designed for readers with little or no experience in measurement, statistics, or interprofessional issues. It focuses on increasing the reader's ability to use measures that are operationalized within the context of theories and conceptual frameworks, derived from sound measurement principles and practices and adequately tested for reliability and validity. Additionally, the text provides a pragmatic account of the processes involved in all aspects of measurement. Studies conducted by nurses and researchers in varied settings illustrate the measurement processes.
New to the Fifth Edition:
Thoroughly updated and revised
Delivers new and emerging strategies
Reflects recent changes to nursing, health research, and emphasis on interprofessional research
Includes five completely new chapters addressing challenges to using big data, evaluation and measurement in interprofessional practice and education, metrics and benchmarking in health professions education and practice, and measurement issues in translational science
Key Features:
Easy-to-read content and format
Assumes no prior knowledge of measurement, statistics, or interprofessional issues
Provides studies conducted by nurses and researchers in varied settings
Offers a pragmatic account of the processes involved inn all aspects of measurement
Contents
Contributors vii
Preface ix
Acknowledgment xi
Part I Basic Principles of Measurement
1 Introduction to Measurement
Carolyn Waltz
2 Operationalizing Nursing Concepts
Elizabeth Lenz
3 Measurement Theories and Frameworks
Rosemarie DiMauro Satyshur
Part II Understanding Measurement Design
4 Strategies for Designing Measurement Tools and Procedures
Rosemarie DiMauro Satyshur
5 Measurement Reliability
Carolyn Waltz
6 Validity of Measures
Carolyn Waltz
7 Standardized Approaches to Measurement
Elizabeth Lenz
Part III Measurement via the Digital World
8 Internet Data Collection
Ora Strickland
9 Observational Methods
Elizabeth Lenz
Part IV Instrumentation and Data Collection Methods
10 Content Analysis
Elizabeth Lenz
11 Interviews
Carolyn Waltz
12 Questionnaires
Elizabeth Lenz
13 The Delphi Technique
Carolyn Waltz
14 Visual Analog Scales
Elizabeth Lenz
15 Measurement of Physiological Variables Using Biomedical Instrumentation
Kathleen S. Stone and Susan K. Frazier
16 Precision, Accuracy, and Uncertainty of Biophysical Measurements for Research and Practice
Nancy A. Ryan-Wenger
17 Selection and Use of Existing Instruments
Ora Strickland
Part V Team Science
18 Interprofessional Practice Measurement and Evaluation
Susan Antol
19 Metrics and Benchmarking in Health Professions Education and Practice
With Margaret Scisney-Matlock
Part VI Measurement Issues
20 Ethical Issues
Elizabeth Lenz
21 Measurement Issues in Qualitative Research
Judith E. Hupcey and Lisa Kitko
22 Measurement Issues in Translational Science
Linda L. Chlan and Mary Beth Happ
23 Other Measurement Issues:
Ora Strickland
Social Desirability
Process and Outcome Measurement
Measuring State and Trait Characteristics
Cross-cultural Measurement
Triangulation
Proxy Respondents
Translation of Questionnaires into Other Languages, Methods and Psychometric Assessment
Index
