Health Questionaries

Dear Colleagues,

Health questionaries are tools that allow researchers to evaluate the extent to which certain functions are being met and whether they are key tools in the research process in health sciences. Health surveys are tools that reflect health outcomes and facilitate research on general aspects of health, well-being, quality of life, therapeutic adherence, and a host of other aspects. It is important when using a health survey/health questionnaire that content validity, construct validity, reliability, and psychometric properties are taken into account. As it stands, many questionnaires do not even have basic psychometric properties to reflect the quality of the measurement. The aim of this multidisciplinary Topic is to highlight different investigations in questionaries/surveys in health sciences where the psychometric properties of questionnaires were first approximated, especially in the field of psychiatry. We propose an open space where researchers employing health questionaries/health surveys explain the objectives of the questionnaires, cultural adaptation, validity, etc. The objective pursued, the hypothesis put forward, and, above all, the clinical usefulness of these questionnaires should be explicitly reasoned.

Prof. Dr. Raúl Juárez Vela
Dr. Francisco José Rodríguez Velasco
Prof. Dr. Mercedes Sánchez-Barba
Topic Editors