dc.contributor.author | Polit, Denise F | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-02-24T22:50:03Z | |
dc.date.available | 2019-02-24T22:50:03Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2014 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0962-9343 | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1007/s11136-014-0632-9 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10072/103675 | |
dc.description.abstract | Purpose:
To focus attention on the need for rigorous and carefully designed test–retest reliability assessments for new patient-reported outcomes and to encourage retest researchers to be thoughtful, ambitious, and creative in their retest efforts.
Methods:
The paper outlines key challenges that confront retest researchers, calls attention to some limitations in meeting those challenges, and describes some strategies to improve retest research.
Results:
Modest retest coefficients are often reported as acceptable, and many important decisions—such as the retest interval—appear not to be evidence-based. Retest assessments are seldom undertaken before a measure has been finalized, which rules out using retest data to select strong, reproducible items.
Conclusions:
Strategies for improving retest research include seeking input from patients or experts regarding the stability of the construct to support decisions about the retest interval, analyzing item-level retest data to identify items to revise or discard, establishing a priori standards of acceptability for reliability coefficients, using large, heterogeneous, and representative retest samples and collecting follow-up data to better understand consistent and inconsistent responses over time. | |
dc.description.peerreviewed | Yes | |
dc.language | English | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.publisher | Springer Netherlands | |
dc.publisher.place | Netherlands | |
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom | 1713 | |
dc.relation.ispartofpageto | 1720 | |
dc.relation.ispartofissue | 6 | |
dc.relation.ispartofjournal | Quality of Life Research | |
dc.relation.ispartofvolume | 23 | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearch | Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearch | Public Health and Health Services | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearch | Psychology | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode | 111799 | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode | 1117 | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode | 1701 | |
dc.title | Getting serious about test-retest reliability: A critique of retest research and some recommendations | |
dc.type | Journal article | |
dc.type.description | C1 - Articles | |
dc.type.code | C - Journal Articles | |
gro.faculty | Griffith Health, School of Nursing and Midwifery | |
gro.hasfulltext | No Full Text | |
gro.griffith.author | Polit, Denise F. | |