Measuring Health: A Guide to Rating Scales and Questionnaires

By Kate L Hyett, T. Mills. 2006

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• Loneliness, social support, and preference for online social interaction: the mediating effects of identity experimentation online among children and adolescents (2011, methodology): “It was recommended that the subscale scores rather than the total score be used (McDowell & Newell, 1996).”
• Are neighbourhood characteristics associated with depressive symptoms? A review of evidence (2008, methodology): “26 39 44 53 54 Six studies, mainly carried out in the UK, used the GHQ (General Health Questionnaire),(30) 31 34 46 47 50 a scale created to assess four elements of non-psychotic distress, including depression.(58) The SF-36 (Mental health index of the Short Form Health Survey 36) was used in two st”
• Daily exposure to negative campaign messages decreases same-sex couples’ psychological and relational well-being (2016, unknown): “…CESD among both clinical and nonclinical samples in the form of large correlations with clinical reports of depression, DSM depression diagnoses, the Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression, and the Symptom Checklist-90 (for a review of validity evidence see McDowell & Newell, 1996; Roberts, 1983).”
• Investigating the Relationship of Resilience to Academic Persistence in College Students With Mental Health Issues (2013, background): “The reliability of the SSQ-6 is quite high, and the SSQ-6 has correlated with personality indexes of wellbeing and self-esteem (Herzberg et al., 1999; McDowell & Newell, 1987; Sarason et al., 1987).”
• Marital Status and Social Well-Being: Are the Married Always Better Off? (2008, background): “Generally speaking, individual-level social well-being can be conceptualized as having two facets: Social adjustment and social support (McDowell and Newell 1987).”
• Social Indicators Research and Health-Related Quality of Life Research (2004, background): “For our purposes, it must be noted that “Respondents check only the items that describe them on a given day and are related to their health, although the actual medical condition is not an issue” (McDowell and Newell 1996, pp. 431–432, emphasis added).”
• A systematic review of the psychological and social benefits of participation in sport for adults: informing development of a conceptual model of health through sport (2013, unknown): “” [16] (p 152).”
• Olfactory disorders and quality of life--an updated review. (2014, methodology): “General QoL can be assessed with questionnaires, such as the Short Form-36 Health Survey (Ware 2000), the General Well-Being Schedule (McDowell 2006), the 90-item Symptom Checklist (Derogatis 1977), the Mood Inventory (Zessen 1975), and the Nottingham Health Profile (Wiklund D ow nloaded from https:”
• Swedish population health-related quality of life results using the EQ-5D (2004, background): “the extent to which two or more instruments that purport to be measuring the same topic agree with each other, was analysed by estimating the relationship between the health state scores and the global self-rated health question in the public health survey by means of multiple regression analyses [9”
• Work organization and mental health problems in PhD students (2017, background): “instrument to identify psychological distress and potential cases of common psychiatric disorder (especially depression), leaving the task of diagnosing actual disorder to a psychiatric interview (McDowell, 2006).”
• Is self-efficacy associated with diabetes self-management across race/ethnicity and health literacy? (2006, methodology): “The diabetes self-efficacy scale from this study performed well overall and across race/ethnicity and health literacy, with internal consistency–reliability scores within the accepted range for psychological measures (46).”
• Relationships between leisure activity types and well-being in older adults (2018, background): “Research has indicated various ways of assessing health, such as physical disability, depression, pain measurement, anxiety, depression, social health and mental status (McDowell, 2006).”