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The Validity and Reliability of the Individualised Care Scale

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This chapter analyses the psychometric properties of the Individualised Care Scale (ICS). As the scale has been translated into several languages, a wide international perspective to the validity and reliability of the ICS will be provided. The main contents are content, construct, criterion and cross-cultural validity, internal consistency (stability) and item functioning.

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    Minna Stolt & Janika Koskenvuori

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    Minna Stolt

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    Evridiki Papastavrou

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Stolt, M., Koskenvuori, J. (2019). The Validity and Reliability of the Individualised Care Scale. In: Suhonen, R., Stolt, M., Papastavrou, E. (eds) Individualized Care. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-89899-5_8

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