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1 online resource (343 pages) |
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Cover; Half title page; Title page ; Table of contents; Acknowledgments; Editors; Introduction; Concepts and models; Measurement; Interpretation of perceived health data; Knowledge and decision making; Section 1: Concepts and models; Chapter 1: Introduction; References; Chapter 2: Chronic disease in medicine: Past, present, and possible future of a problematic concept; A short history of the concept; Refining and reformulating questions about consistency, relevance, and usefulness for medicine of the chronic disease category; Consistency; Relevance of chronicity relative to competing concepts |
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Usefulness of the category of chronic disease for medicineReferences; Chapter 3: Conceptual approaches to perceived quality of life; Introduction; The nature of measurement; Overview of conceptual approaches; Theories of human need; Theories of positive well-being and happiness; Sen's capability approach; Value approaches and utility theory; The way forward; References; Chapter 4: ICF and other conceptual models: Rethinking the role of context and implications for assessing health; Contextual factors and conceptual models of disablement |
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The contextual factors in the ICF and earlier conceptual modelsPersonal factors and the ICF; Incorporating the person into the ICF; Summary and conclusion; References; Chapter 5: Psychological adjustment to chronic disease; Conceptualizations of adjustment to chronic disease; Theories of contributors to adjustment to chronic disease; Research on contributors to adjustment to chronic disease; Sociocultural context; Disease and treatment context; Interpersonal context; Intrapersonal context; Cognitive appraisals of chronic disease; Coping processes and adjustment to chronic disease |
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Directions for research in adjustment to chronic diseaseReferences; Section 2: Measurement; Chapter 6: Contemporary perspectives on the epistemology of measurement in the social sciences; References; Chapter 7: Advances in social measurement: A Rasch measurement theory; Introduction; Scientific theory; Definitions of measurement; The classical definition of measurement; Representational characterization of measurement; Additive conjoint measurement; Structure among measurements in scientific theories; Function of measurement in physical science |
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Measurement as a methodological theory-invariance of comparisonsRequirements of a measurement theory; Compatibility with known features of measurement; Explanation beyond description; Deduced new insights; The multiplicative Poisson model and its elements in an RMT; Compatibility of the MPM with characteristics of measurement; Compatibility with the classical definition of measurement; Compatibility with concatenation; Compatibility with a multiplicative structure; Explaining measurement; Invariant comparisons within a frame of reference |
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Rasch's generalization of models that provide invariant comparisons |
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Print version record |
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Sickness Impact Profile.
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Sickness Impact Profile
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Leplege, Alain
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Briancon, Serge
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Spitz, Elisabeth
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Coste, Joel
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| ISBN |
9781351651110 |
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1351651110 |
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