Journal of Clinical Epidemiology
Volume 62, Issue 1 , Pages 37-46 , January 2009

Literacy affected ability to adequately discriminate among categories in multipoint Likert Scales

  • Eduardo Chachamovich

      Affiliations

    • Post-Graduate Program on Psychiatry, University Federal of Rio Grande do Sul, Rua Florencio Ygartua, 391/308, Porto Alegre – RS, CEP 90430-010, Brazil
    • Clinical and Health Psychology, Medical School, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Post-Graduate Program on Psychiatry, University Federal of Rio Grande do Sul, Rua Florencio Ygartua, 391/308, Porto Alegre – RS, CEP 90430-010. Brazil. Tel.: +55-51-91230015; fax: +55-51-32644152.
    • ,
  • Marcelo P. Fleck

      Affiliations

    • Post-Graduate Program on Psychiatry, University Federal of Rio Grande do Sul, Rua Florencio Ygartua, 391/308, Porto Alegre – RS, CEP 90430-010, Brazil
    • ,
  • Mick Power

      Affiliations

    • Clinical and Health Psychology, Medical School, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK

,Accepted 2 March 2008.

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doi: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2008.03.002

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology
Volume 62, Issue 1 , Pages 37-46 , January 2009

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