Psychometric Evaluation of Condition-Specific Instruments Used to Assess Health-Related Quality of Life, Attitudes, and Related Constructs in Stuttering
American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology
Franic, D. M., & Bothe, A. K. (2008).
American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 17(1), 60-80.
<div>This review investigates the psychometric properties of diagnostic tools to assess the attitudes and quality of life of children and adults who stutter.</div>
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<div>Published, peer-reviewed studies (not further specified)</div>
37 (based on tables in Appendix A and B)
<div>Overall, the findings "support cautious use of the CAT and the CAT–R, the PSI [Perceptions of Stuttering Inventory], and the S24 [abbreviated Erickson's scale of communication attitudes] for group-level decision making, but this conclusion is based only on the relatively better performance of these instruments with respect to the alternatives" (p. 70).</div>
<div>"None of the attitudinal instruments evaluated in this review satisfied more than a few standard psychometric criteria for decision making with individual clients, making the time and effort to administer even one, much less all, of these instruments for research or clinical purposes directly questionable" (p. 72).</div>
<div>To measure large changes, the Communication Attitude Test (CAT) or the Communication Attitude Test - Revised (CAT–R) for children may be useful. "For more subtle changes, however, none of the instruments reviewed in this project demonstrated acceptable reliability, validity, responsiveness, and other important characteristics for individual decision making" (p. 72).</div>
