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An Evaluation of Multiple Choice Questionnaires for the Assessment of Knowledge in Diabetic Children and Their Families
Author(s) -
McCowen C.,
Court S.,
Hackett A. F.,
Parkin J. M.
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
diabetic medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.474
H-Index - 145
eISSN - 1464-5491
pISSN - 0742-3071
DOI - 10.1111/j.1464-5491.1988.tb01032.x
Subject(s) - medicine , comparability , analysis of variance , family medicine , variance (accounting) , pediatrics , combinatorics , accounting , business , mathematics
The comparability of five multiple choice questionnaires was tested in 69 diabetic children and their parents. Analysis of variance showed that 68 % of the variation in the scores was due to differences between individuals, with only 8 % due to differences between questionnaires. A second study then compared results from diabetic children, their mothers and fathers, and some nurses and doctors, who each completed one questionnaire. Analysis of variance of this study showed that the mothers, fathers, and nurses scored about the same, but more than the children ( p < 0.05), whilst the scores of the doctors were not significantly different from any of the other groups.