John Lynch

Kate Lorig

Diana Laurent

Virginia Gonzalez

Anita Stewart

Philip Ritter

Provides some 50 self-administered scales for measuring health behaviors, health status, self-efficacy, and health care utilization, and reports on a study of the development of the instruments at the Stanford Patient Education Research Center's Chronic Disease Self-Management Study. Also includes S

Outcome Measures for Health Education and Other Health Care Interventions

Kate Lorig, , DrPH

Although Outcome Measurement has become an important tool in the evaluation of health promotion, patient education and other health services interventions, there remain problems in locating reliable measurements and scales. This book provides for the first time a compilation of more than 50 self-administered scales for measuring health behaviours, health status, self-efficacy, and health-care utilization.

Gonzalez' (TESL, U. of Cincinnati) text developed from her own experiences as an international graduate student in the U.S., and her interest in mentoring international students when she became a college professor. She examines the effects of social, cultural, cognitive, affective/emotional, and linguistic factors on the adaption process of interna.

Virginia Gonzalez

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