Health measurement scales

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The importance of pretesting questionnaires: a field research example of cognitive pretesting the Exercise referral Quality of Life Scale (ER-QLS) (2017, methodology): “Had cognitive pretesting not been undertaken, these problems would have been carried forward into the scale level and psychometric phases of research that followed which is important because no amount of statistical manipulation can account for poorly chosen questions (Streiner & Norman, 2008).”
The Achilles Tendon Total Rupture Score (ATRS) (2007, background): “Face validity was defined as a subjective judgment of items assessing the desired qualities.(27) The symptoms and physical activities were listed, and the number of items was reduced because of similarities.”
A systematic review of evidence for the psychometric properties of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (2016, methodology): “Definitions used of measurement properties (R. Goodman, 1997; Mokkink et al., 2010; Streiner & Norman, 2008, pp. 261–263).”
The Yale–Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale (2015, background): “Reliability induction is an erroneous practice because, as psychometric theory states, reliability is not a property of the test itself, but of the test scores (Crocker & Algina, 1986; Lord & Novick, 1968; McDonald, 1999; Streiner & Norman, 2008).”