Hamzeh, J., Kaur, N., Bush, P.L., Hudon, C., Schuster, T., Vedel, I., Hong, Q.N., & Pluye, P. (2018). The Questionnaire Origin and Development Appraisal tool. McGill Family Medicine Studies Online, 13: e06
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The Questionnaire Origin & Development Appraisal (QODA) tool is a critical appraisal tool for assessing the quality of both the origin and the initial development of any questionnaire used for assessing clinical practice, educational programs, and health service/policy. The development of the QODA tool is based on Haynes et al.’s (1995) best practices for creating and developing assessment-related questionnaires in educational and clinical fields as well as in psychometrics . Although, published in 1995, these best practices remain relevant, but were not designed for critical appraisal. Indeed, they are aligned with current international standards (American Educational Research Association (AERA), American Psychological Association (APA), National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME), 2014). The lack of corresponding critical appraisal tool led to conceive the QODA. The origin and development of the QODA tool is presented elsewhere (Hamzeh et al., in press).
The QODA complements the COnsensus-based Standards for the selection of health Measurement INstruments (COSMIN) tools which are used for appraising measurement properties of assessment-related questionnaires (Mokkink et al., 2010). For example, a questionnaire used by clinicians, managers, policy-makers, patients and researchers to assess clinical practice can (1) have an appropriate origin and initial development (assessed with the QODA tool), and (2) be validated and reliability-tested (i.e., measurement properties assessed with COSMIN tools). Stated otherwise, users of an assessment-related questionnaire should at least appraise the quality of its origin and initial development (using QODA) before they appraise its measurement properties (using COSMIN tools).
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