Development of the item pool for the 'WHO-ageism scale': conceptualisation, item generation and content validity assessment.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

ageism harms individuals' health and wellbeing and can be costly to societies. Reliable and valid measures that can quantify ageism are critical for achieving accurate data on its global prevalence, determinants and impacts, and to evaluate the effectiveness of interventions to reduce it. Ageism scales exist; however, none have been demonstrated to validly measure ageism in a manner consistent with consensus definitions of the concept (i.e. as manifested in all of stereotypes, prejudices and discrimination), whilst also quantifying ageism against all groups, from a target and perpetrator perspective, and across diverse country settings. Our objective was to develop an item pool to meet this need.

Methods

we completed the conceptualisation, item generation and cont

SUBMITTER: Murray AL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10615060 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature