Health Questionnaires in Nursing

Dear Colleagues,

My name is Prof. Dr. Raúl Juárez, head of the research group in nursing care and health at the University of La Rioja. In this Special Issue, I am collaborating with my colleagues Prof. Dr. Mercedes Sánchez Barba from the Statistical Department of the University of Salamanca,  Prof. Dr. Daniel Íncera Fernández from UNIE University of Madrid, and Prof. Dr. Antonio Martinez Sabater, Dean of the Faculty of Nursing and Podiatry at the University of Valencia. Together, we form a multidisciplinary team that approaches this Special Issue for nursing scientists interested in providing psychometric insights into health questionnaires.

Health questionnaires are tools that evaluate the extent to which certain functions are being met, and they are key instruments in the research process within nursing. These surveys reflect health outcomes and enable research on general aspects of health, well-being, quality of life, therapeutic adherence, and many other factors. It is important that when using a health survey or questionnaire, content validity, construct validity, reliability, and psychometric properties are taken into account. To date, many questionnaires lack even basic psychometric properties to reflect the quality of the measurement.

Our aim is to highlight investigations into nursing questionnaires and surveys that include an initial approximation of psychometric properties, factorial analysis, exploratory analysis, etc., particularly in relation to nursing science.

We propose an open space where researchers on health questionnaires and health surveys can explain the objectives of the questionnaires, cultural adaptation, validity, etc. The objectives pursued, the hypotheses proposed, and, above all, the nursing usefulness of these questionnaires should be explicitly reasoned.

We invite you to publish your research on questionnaires with a psychometric or statistical approach.

Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following: nursing, psychometrics, sociology, medicine, and psychology.

We look forward to receiving your contributions.

Prof. Dr. Raúl Juárez Vela
Prof. Dr. Daniel Íncera Fernández
Prof. Dr. Mercedes Sánchez-Barba
Dr. Antonio Martinez-Sabater
Guest Editors

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