california
Forum Senior
Topics: 56
Posts: 77
|
while reading a new psychiatric journal you find an article on a screening test for depressed patients. The authors have shown that high scores correlate with an increased risk for suicide . Nine months later anther group undertakes a study that demonstrates thatmale patients consistently score higher than do female patients, and that when this is taken into consideration, the increase in suicide rate vanishes. The authors of hte second study state that this limits the usefulness of the screening tool.
1. the authors of the screening test indicated that their test was useful because of its
a. internal reliability
b. test-retest reliability
c. content validity
d. predictive validity
e. discriminative validity
2. the authors of the second paper faulted the usefulness of this screening tool because of its lack of
a. internal reliability
b. test retest reliability
c. content validity
d. predictive validity
e. discriminative validity
|
| sobia naeem
Forum Elite
Topics: 30
Posts: 303
|
1..b
2..d
|
| sandra
Forum Guru
Topics: 178
Posts: 422
|
?
___________________
You become what you think you are!
|
|
| |
| | | |
