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Considerations in design and use of scales in rehabilitative audiology. 1991

C L Hutton

Audiology and Speech Pathology Service, VA Medical Center, Decatur, GA 30033.

Self-assessment questionnaires in rehabilitative audiology typically possess the measurement characteristics of scales based on forced-choice and rank-order. Data from these ordinal scales neither support arithmetic analysis nor arithmetic interpretation. However, powerful nonparametric statistics are available for application to data from ordinal level questionnaires. Thus, methodologic principles influence the way self-assessment scales are designed, constructed, and analyzed. They also influence the way clinicians interpret responses from individual patients. Within these constraints, well constructed questionnaires can provide information on a wide range of topics in rehabilitative audiology. Suggestions are given for generating interval level questionnaires that are more precise than existing, ordinal level scales.

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D011795	Surveys and Questionnaires	Collections of data obtained from voluntary subjects. The information usually takes the form of answers to questions, or suggestions.	Community Survey,Nonrespondent,Questionnaire,Questionnaires,Respondent,Survey,Survey Method,Survey Methods,Surveys,Baseline Survey,Community Surveys,Methodology, Survey,Nonrespondents,Questionnaire Design,Randomized Response Technique,Repeated Rounds of Survey,Respondents,Survey Methodology,Baseline Surveys,Design, Questionnaire,Designs, Questionnaire,Methods, Survey,Questionnaire Designs,Questionnaires and Surveys,Randomized Response Techniques,Response Technique, Randomized,Response Techniques, Randomized,Survey, Baseline,Survey, Community,Surveys, Baseline,Surveys, Community,Techniques, Randomized Response
D012048	Correction of Hearing Impairment	Procedures for correcting HEARING DISORDERS.	Correction of Auditory Perception,Habilitation of Hearing Impairment,Hearing Impaired Rehabilitation,Rehabilitation of Hearing Impaired,Audiologic Habilitation,Audiologic Rehabilitation,Aural Habilitation,Aural Rehabilitation,Correction of Hearing Loss,Habilitation of Hearing Impaired,Rehabilitation of Hearing Impairment,Audiologic Habilitations,Audiologic Rehabilitations,Auditory Perception Correction,Auditory Perception Corrections,Aural Habilitations,Aural Rehabilitations,Habilitation, Audiologic,Habilitation, Aural,Habilitations, Audiologic,Habilitations, Aural,Hearing Impaired Habilitation,Hearing Impaired Habilitations,Hearing Impairment Correction,Hearing Impairment Corrections,Hearing Impairment Habilitation,Hearing Impairment Habilitations,Hearing Impairment Rehabilitation,Hearing Impairment Rehabilitations,Hearing Loss Correction,Hearing Loss Corrections,Impaired Habilitation, Hearing,Impaired Habilitations, Hearing,Impairment Correction, Hearing,Impairment Corrections, Hearing,Impairment Habilitation, Hearing,Impairment Habilitations, Hearing,Impairment Rehabilitation, Hearing,Impairment Rehabilitations, Hearing,Loss Correction, Hearing,Loss Corrections, Hearing,Perception Correction, Auditory,Perception Corrections, Auditory,Rehabilitation, Audiologic,Rehabilitation, Aural,Rehabilitation, Hearing Impaired,Rehabilitations, Audiologic,Rehabilitations, Aural
D006311	Hearing Disorders	Conditions that impair the transmission of auditory impulses and information from the level of the ear to the temporal cortices, including the sensorineural pathways.	Distorted Hearing,Dysacusis,Paracousis,Paracusis,Hearing Disorder,Hearing, Distorted
D006801	Humans	Members of the species Homo sapiens.	Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D001298	Audiology	Allied medical specialty that studies hearing and hearing impairment.
D012647	Self-Assessment	Appraisal of one's own personal qualities or traits.	Self Assessment,Self Assessment (Psychology),Assessment, Self,Self-Criticism,Assessment, Self (Psychology),Assessments, Self,Assessments, Self (Psychology),Self Assessments,Self Assessments (Psychology),Self Criticism,Self-Assessments,Self-Criticisms
D013223	Statistics as Topic	Works about the science and art of collecting, summarizing, and analyzing data that are subject to random variation.	Area Analysis,Estimation Technics,Estimation Techniques,Indirect Estimation Technics,Indirect Estimation Techniques,Multiple Classification Analysis,Service Statistics,Statistical Study,Statistics, Service,Tables and Charts as Topic,Analyses, Area,Analyses, Multiple Classification,Area Analyses,Classification Analyses, Multiple,Classification Analysis, Multiple,Estimation Technic, Indirect,Estimation Technics, Indirect,Estimation Technique,Estimation Technique, Indirect,Estimation Techniques, Indirect,Indirect Estimation Technic,Indirect Estimation Technique,Multiple Classification Analyses,Statistical Studies,Studies, Statistical,Study, Statistical,Technic, Indirect Estimation,Technics, Estimation,Technics, Indirect Estimation,Technique, Estimation,Technique, Indirect Estimation,Techniques, Estimation,Techniques, Indirect Estimation