Evaluating composite health measures using Rasch modelling: An illustrative example
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Objectives The purpose of the present article is to elucidate the opportunities provided by Rasch modelling in epidemiology and public health research in order to evaluate composite measures of health. Methods The article gives a review of Rasch modelling in conjunction with illustrative examples based on adolescent survey data. Results The article demonstrates how the Rasch-model enables examinations of the way items work across different samples/subgroups, e.g., detection of possible differential item functioning. Conclusions It is concluded that Rasch modelling may serve as a useful tool in the evaluation and the development of composite health measures intended to be used in epidemiology and public health research.
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Local response dependence was indicated for four items.
“Other reasons may also include multidimensionality [19], which appeared to be the case for three items, or local response dependence [23,29], which was indicated for four items (Table 3).”
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- Authors
- Hagquist, C.
- Affiliations
- Karlstad University (SE)
- Corresponding author
- Hagquist, Curt
- ORCID
- Hagquist, Curt
- Venue
- Sozial- und Präventivmedizin SPM
- Published
- 2001-11
- Volume
- 46
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 369-378
- ISSN
- 0303-8408 (ISSN-L)
- 1420-911X
- OpenAlex
- W1972810750
- Cited by
- 34
- References
- 35
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2023: 2 · 2020: 1 · 2019: 2 · 2018: 3 · 2017: 2 · 2016: 2 · 2013: 3 · 2012: 3
- FWCI
- 1.14
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Locations
- Sozial- und Präventivmedizin (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Management Science and Operations Research › Psychometric Methodologies and Testing
- Social Sciences › Education › Health Education and Validation
- Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
- Keywords
- Rasch model, health status measurement, differential item functioning, scale development
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Epidemiology, Female, Humans, Male, Probability, Public Health, Surveys and Questionnaires, Research, Sex Factors, Models, Statistical, Chi-Square Distribution
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