Original Research

Validating the Adult Primary Care Assessment Tool

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Equal item-scale correlationrefers to items in a scale that contribute approximately the same proportion of information about the underlying concept.

Score reliabilityrefers to scores of scales that are reproducible and reliable.

Skewnessrefers to distribution of observations that is not symmetric, ie, when more observations are found at one end of the distribution than the other.

Kurtosisrefers to the extent observations cluster around a central point more than in normal distribution.

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