Thesis
Cognitive interviews with early, middle and late adolescents living with disabilities
Washington State University
Master of Nursing (MN), Washington State University
2010
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/2376/102121
Abstract
Understanding the complicated developmental needs of adolescents is important in constructing data collection tools for this population, including developing patient-reported outcome measures. Cognitive interviews are often used in the development of measurement tools as they assist in determining if terms are understood by the target population. This project examined adolescent understanding of three target questions taken from the Child Depression Inventory (CDI). A framework of adolescent development in which adolescents were deemed to be in an early, middle, or late phase of development was used to assist in understanding how age related to understanding of terms used in the CDI. The results of this study cannot be fully understood by differences in developmental phase of the respondents. In addition, results indicated that adolescents showed greater understanding of terms when they were asked what they were thinking about when responding to the CDI questions than when they were asked about the meaning of the questions.
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- Title
- Cognitive interviews with early, middle and late adolescents living with disabilities
- Creators
- Gia Teresa Accuardi
- Contributors
- Linda L. Eddy (Degree Supervisor)
- Awarding Institution
- Washington State University
- Academic Unit
- Nursing, College of
- Theses and Dissertations
- Master of Nursing (MN), Washington State University
- Publisher
- Washington State University; Pullman, Wash. :
- Identifiers
- 99900525155501842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Thesis