Health Measurements: Questionnaries and Scales

Code:

OPT_MSP12_31

Acronym:

MSP12_31

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Epidemiology

Instance: 2024/2025 - 2S

Active?	No
Responsible unit:	Department of Public Health and Forensic Sciences, and Medical Education
Course/CS Responsible:	Master Degree Course in Public Health

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
MSP	0	Current Studies Plan	1	-	3	27	81

Teaching language

English

Objectives

To gain theoretical and practical knowledge in the development and application of instruments for the evaluation of objective and subjective health measures.

 

Learning outcomes and competences

Students should be able of developing a questionnaire to assess objective and subjective health information and to test its validity and reliability, namely applying the apropriated statistical methods.
Should be able of perform a critical revision of a questionnaire and of a scale.
Should gain skills on the collection of health data, as well as in the identification of the main errors and the way of avoiding them.

 

Working method

Presencial

Pre-requirements (prior knowledge) and co-requirements (common knowledge)

 

 

Program

 

Evaluation of objective and subjective measurements: questionnaire design and structure; development of scales and index; To evalute the validity and reliability of the tools for measuring health.

Principal component analysis and factorial analyses; Internal consistency; Scoring scales; defining cut-off points.

Questionnaires’ applications: administration methods (advantages and disadvantages); Maximize the participation proportion; to reduce measurement errors and its effects.

 

 

 

 

 

Mandatory literature

Streiner DL, Norman GR, Cairney J.; Health measurement scales: a practical guide to their development and use. Fifth edition. New York: Oxford University Press 2015.
McDowell I, Newell C; Measuring Health: a guide to rating scales and questionnaires Third edition., New York: Oxford University Press , 2006

Complementary Bibliography

Fowler FJ, Jr.; Survey Research Methods. Center for Survey Research. (Fifth edition). , University of Massachusetts, Boston: Sage Publications , 2014

Comments from the literature

The bibliography will be supplemented with relevant papers for the learning process.

Teaching methods and learning activities

As this curricular unit has 3 ECTs, it is estimated a total of 81 hours of total work by students; out of these 18h are of contact (10 theoretic-practical and 8 Laboratorial practical)

The teaching methodologies to be used will combine the theoretical dimension of the main concepts and problems related with measuring health techniques and the practical dimension through the development, by the students, of a tool and trough the evaluation of its psychometric properties. The development of the work group including the development in practice of a tool, its application on a convenience sample and the statistical analysis of data, is understood as a more effective option to promote student´s skills in health monitorization.

Learning assessment will include: group work- oral presentation (20%) written work (20%)+final written exam (60%).

Software

Statistical Package for Social Sciences

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Apresentação/discussão de um trabalho científico	20,00
Exame	60,00
Trabalho prático ou de projeto	20,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Estudo autónomo	63,00
Frequência das aulas	10,00
Trabalho laboratorial	8,00
Total:	81,00

Eligibility for exams

 

Attendance of at least 75% of all classes.

 

 

 

 

Calculation formula of final grade

Learning assessment will include: group work- oral presentation (20%) written work (20%)+final written exam (60%).

 

 

Examinations or Special Assignments

 

 

Internship work/project

 

 

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

 

 

Classification improvement

 

 

Observations