REHAB 747 / Selected Clinical Measurement Research Methods

3 unit(s)

J. MacDermid

This modular course will cover a selection of topics relating to developing and evaluating existing clinical measures- with particular emphasis on content validity of patient reported outcomes. Faculty with expertise in clinical measurement will instruct topics in a modular arrangement. Modules covered will include: 1. Rasch analysis; 2. Assessment of content validity using ICF-linking or item prospective classification; 3. Cognitive interviewing as a clinical measurement methodology and 4. Methods for cross-cultural validation methods. Students will identify a project and mentor to plan and conduct a project that applies these advanced topics to a clinical measurement project, resulting in a paper on a clinical measurement issue within their own research area.