Ittenbach Lab Research
Our lab focuses on scale development − the creation and validation of new measures for use in medical settings. Although many people consider measure development to be restricted to pencil and paper applications, much like the tests people take in school, measures can also be developed and applied using handheld computers, electronic monitoring devices and sophisticated scanning and imaging techniques. Whether a researcher is interested in the responses of children to questions about trauma in the emergency room or measures of muscle mass obtained in the anthropometry lab, scale development can improve the quality of information obtained in pediatric medicine.
The lab is headed by Richard Ittenbach, PhD, a research associate professor of pediatrics with a primary appointment in the Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology at Cincinnati Children’s. He holds joint appointments in the Division of Behavioral Medicine and Clinical Psychology and the University of Cincinnati’s College of Medicine.
