Open Access<p>Refinement and Evaluation of a Chinese and Western Medication Adherence Scale for Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease: Item Response Theory Analyses</p>
Author(s) -
Qiong Huang,
Li Luo,
Bingqing Xia,
Ding-Jun Zhang,
Cheng-Di Dong,
Jiaowang Tan,
Lizhe Fu,
Fang Tang,
Xianlong Zhang,
Bei-ni Lao,
Yao Xu,
Huifen Chen,
Xusheng Liu,
Yifan Wu
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
patient preference and adherence
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.885
H-Index - 48
ISSN - 1177-889X
DOI - 10.2147/ppa.s269255
Subject(s) - cronbach's alpha , scale (ratio) , item response theory , construct validity , reliability (semiconductor) , classical test theory , medicine , exploratory factor analysis , clinical psychology , statistics , psychometrics , mathematics , physics , quantum mechanics , power (physics)
This study aimed to simplify the version-1 Chinese and Western medication adherence scale for patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) to a version-2 scale using item response theory (IRT) analyses, and to further evaluate the performance of the version-2 scale.