EIP FINAL QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
- How valid results are
- Must be reproducible
- Important to credibility to the study
- Does the instrument measure what it is supposed to measure - Answers :validity
what are the types of validity? - Answers :1. content
2. concurrent
3. construct
4. internal
5. external
Degree to which a test measures all aspects of a thing or construct - Answers :content
validity
measuring upper extremity- use upper extremity functional scale - what is this an
example of? - Answers :content validity
Does a measurement actually measure what it actually says it measures? - Answers
:construct validity
six meter walk test - measures ambulation not balance - what is this an example of? -
Answers :construct validity
Way to validate tools
Do 2 measurements agree what they are measuring - Answers :concurrent validity
high concurrent validity- berg balance and Tinetti balance scale - this is an example of?
- Answers :concurrent vallidity
- The control of extraneous factors
- Leads to the least amount of skewed results
- Done in a "bubble" - Answers :internal validity
- How applicable/ generalizable are results
- If done in a bubble how applicable are they really? - Answers :external validity
what are the threats to validity? - Answers :mortality, sample size, Hawthorne effect
- Does instrument give same results each time it is used
- Is it consistent?
- Are results repeatable?
- How will do measurements agree? - - Are they stable? - Answers :reliability
what are the types of reliability? - Answers :inter-rater
, intra-rater
test-restest
In between raters
How consistent are you and I with our results - Answers :inter-rater
Within rater itself
How consistent am I with myself on collecting results - Answers :intra-rater
Stability of measurement through time
How do they impact tools? - Answers :test-retest
tells us about responsiveness to change - Answers :responsiveness
What does SEM stand for? - Answers :standard error of measurement
Directly influenced by reliability of tool - Answers :SEM
Weaker the reliability greater the _____ - because of lots of fluxations - Answers :SEM
what does MDC stand for? - Answers :minimal detectable change
When you can document real change
Scores have truly changed - Answers :MDC
what does MCID stand for? - Answers :minimal clinically important difference
Crosses the threshold of "real change"
Is now perceived as beneficial for patient
Means something to the patient - Answers :MCID
Uses rich descriptions, patient testimonials, descriptions, quotes, things patients says,
patients experiences - Answers :qualitative
Numerical, statistical representation of data - Answers :quantitative
A combination of qualitative and quantitative - Answers :mixed methods
what type of study?
Quantitative-not random- cofounding
More than 1 group
Different interventions - Answers :quasi-experimental
Randomized
Gold standard - Answers :random control trial
- How valid results are
- Must be reproducible
- Important to credibility to the study
- Does the instrument measure what it is supposed to measure - Answers :validity
what are the types of validity? - Answers :1. content
2. concurrent
3. construct
4. internal
5. external
Degree to which a test measures all aspects of a thing or construct - Answers :content
validity
measuring upper extremity- use upper extremity functional scale - what is this an
example of? - Answers :content validity
Does a measurement actually measure what it actually says it measures? - Answers
:construct validity
six meter walk test - measures ambulation not balance - what is this an example of? -
Answers :construct validity
Way to validate tools
Do 2 measurements agree what they are measuring - Answers :concurrent validity
high concurrent validity- berg balance and Tinetti balance scale - this is an example of?
- Answers :concurrent vallidity
- The control of extraneous factors
- Leads to the least amount of skewed results
- Done in a "bubble" - Answers :internal validity
- How applicable/ generalizable are results
- If done in a bubble how applicable are they really? - Answers :external validity
what are the threats to validity? - Answers :mortality, sample size, Hawthorne effect
- Does instrument give same results each time it is used
- Is it consistent?
- Are results repeatable?
- How will do measurements agree? - - Are they stable? - Answers :reliability
what are the types of reliability? - Answers :inter-rater
, intra-rater
test-restest
In between raters
How consistent are you and I with our results - Answers :inter-rater
Within rater itself
How consistent am I with myself on collecting results - Answers :intra-rater
Stability of measurement through time
How do they impact tools? - Answers :test-retest
tells us about responsiveness to change - Answers :responsiveness
What does SEM stand for? - Answers :standard error of measurement
Directly influenced by reliability of tool - Answers :SEM
Weaker the reliability greater the _____ - because of lots of fluxations - Answers :SEM
what does MDC stand for? - Answers :minimal detectable change
When you can document real change
Scores have truly changed - Answers :MDC
what does MCID stand for? - Answers :minimal clinically important difference
Crosses the threshold of "real change"
Is now perceived as beneficial for patient
Means something to the patient - Answers :MCID
Uses rich descriptions, patient testimonials, descriptions, quotes, things patients says,
patients experiences - Answers :qualitative
Numerical, statistical representation of data - Answers :quantitative
A combination of qualitative and quantitative - Answers :mixed methods
what type of study?
Quantitative-not random- cofounding
More than 1 group
Different interventions - Answers :quasi-experimental
Randomized
Gold standard - Answers :random control trial
