Cronbach's alpha
Cronbach's alpha
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DOI:
10.1136/bmj.314.7080.572
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发表时间:
1997-02-22
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通讯作者:
Altman, DG
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作者:
Bland, JM;Altman, DG
Many quantities of interest in medicine, such as anxiety or degree of handicap, are impossible to measure explicitly. Instead, we ask a series of questions and combine the answers into a single numerical value. Often this is done by simply adding a score from each answer. For example, the mini-HAQ is a measure of impairment developed for patients with cervical myelopathy. 1 This has 10 items (table 1)) recording the degree of difficulty experienced in carrying out daily activities. Each item is scored from 1 (no difficulty) to 4 (can't do). The scores on the 10 items are summed to give the mini-HAQ score.