Efficacy, effectiveness, and the evaluation of public health interventions

By Marcelo H. L. Barreto. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 2005

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Subfields: Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

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Employee empowerment, job satisfaction and organizational commitment (2011, background): “A multi-item source was not available and single-item measures can sometimes have advantages over multi-item measures because multi-domain measures can confound the dimensionality of the concept with the multiplicity of their causal sources ( Bowling, 2005”
Patterns of psychological adaptation to divorce after a long-term marriage (2015, background): “Even though the utility and validity of single item questions (especially of subjective health) are uncontested, we must maintain some critical reservations with regard to their reliability (Bowling, 2005).”
The work ability index and single-item question: associations with sick leave, symptoms, and health--a prospective study of women on long-term sick leave. (2010, background): “Using single-item questions can be beneficial in terms of simplicity, cost, and ease of interpretation (15).”
Improving Anchoring Vignettes Designing Surveys to Correct Interpersonal Incomparability (2010, background): “Thus, it is worth investigating techniques that could reduce the total number of questions required (Bowling 2005).”
Measuring 'subjective resilience': using peoples' perceptions to quantify household resilience (2015, neutral): “The same survey is further reduced to even shorter 12 and 6 questions which have proven effective in capturing much of the detail of the full survey (Bowling 2005).”
Interventions targeting social isolation in older people: a systematic review (2011, background): “While experimental study designs are not always feasible or acceptable [90,91], efforts to use randomisation where possible should be encouraged [46].”