Validation of Questionnaires in Social and Health Sciences: New Paradigms and Improved Approaches in Exploratory Factor Analysis

📅 Date: July 24 2025, at 14h30 
🕒 Duration: 60 minutes
📍 Format: Online (Zoom platform)
👥 Target Audience: Researchers, master’s and doctoral students, and professionals using questionnaires in the fields of Social and Health Sciences and related areas

📚 Background and Objectives

The development and validation of assessment instruments in Social and Health Sciences present several methodological and statistical challenges. Ensuring the validity and reliability of instruments, choosing appropriate statistical methods, and interpreting results rigorously are all critical to high-quality research.

This 60-minute webinar will explore the most recent developments in Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA). Participants will be guided through the essential steps for conducting a professional EFA — from data preparation to factor interpretation — with a special focus on emerging paradigms that challenge traditional practices.

Attendees will gain key skills to make methodologically sound decisions, ensuring that the instruments they use accurately and validly measure the constructs under study. This will be a space for scientific dissemination, aiming to promote methodological excellence in the construction and validation of measurement scales.

Programme: https://shorturl.at/hP1EY

Registrations are mandatory: https://forms.gle/XUr1xSSZYVKr8C5C6

Organising and Scientific Committee:

• Professor Maria Margarida da Palma Goes, PhD
  São João de Deus Nursing School, CHRC – University of Évora
• Professor Henrique José Monteiro Oliveira, PhD
  CHRC – University of Évora and Polytechnic Institute of Beja
• Professor Ana Maria Guégués da Silva Dias 
  São João de Deus Nursing School, CHRC – University of Évora