Buehler Center on Aging, Health & Society

Chih-Hung Chang, PhD

Chih-Hung Chang, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Medicine and Director of Methodology & Infometrics Section at the Buehler Center on Aging, Health & Society, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University and has joint appointment at the Center for Healthcare Studies. Dr. Chang graduated from National ChengChi University in Taiwan in 1987, where he received his bachelor's degree in Psychology. He began graduate work at the University of Chicago in 1988 and received his PhD from the Committee on Research Methodology and Quantitative Psychology of the Department of Psychology in 1995. While at the University of Chicago, Dr. Chang held various research positions in the Department of Psychology, the National Opinion Research Center (NORC), the School of Social Service Administration, and the Social Science and Public Policy Computing Center. He was the recipient of a Century Scholarship and two teaching fellowships. After graduation, Dr. Chang served as Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center where he held the position of Psychometrician in the Division of Psychosocial Oncology of the Rush Cancer Institute. Prior to joining the Buehler Center on Aging, Health & Society, Dr. Chang served as Director of Psychometrics and Informatics at the Center on Outcomes, Research and Education (CORE) of Evanston Northwestern Healthcare. He was also a Research Assistant Professor at the Institute for Health Services Research and Policy Studies of Northwestern University.

Research Interests

Aging Research
Palliative and End-of-Life Care Research
Patient-Reported Outcomes
Assessment
Quality of Life Research
Informed Treatment Decision Making
Health Literacy
Cross-Cultural Evaluation
Personality Assessment
Research Methodology
Item Response Theory / Rasch Models
Item Banking and Computerized Adaptive Testing
Multivariate Statistics / Repeated Measure
Structural Equation Modeling
Hierarchical Linear Model
Informatics / e-Technology

Recent Publications

1. Arseven A, Chang CH, Arseven OK, Emanuel LL. Assessment instruments. Clin Geriatr Med 2005; 21(1):121-146.
2. Cella D, Chang CH, Wright BD, von Roenn JH, Skeel RT. Defining higher order dimensions of self-reported health: Further evidence for a two-dimensional structure. Eval Health Prof 2005; 28(2):122-141.
3. Wolf MS, Chang CH, Davis T, Makoul G. Development and validation of the Communication and Attitudinal Self-Efficacy Scale for cancer (CASE-cancer). Patient Educ Couns 2005; 57(3):333-341.
4. McCarthy M, Jr, Jonasson O, Chang CH, Pickard AS, Giobbie-Hurder A, Gibbs J, Edelman P, Fitzgibbons R, Neumayer L. A new measure to assess patient functional status after surgery. J Am Coll Surg 2005; 201(2):171-178.
5. McCarthy M, Jr, Chang CH, Pickard AS, Giobbie-Hurder A, Price DD, Jonasson O, Gibbs J, Fitzgibbons R, Neumayer L. Visual analog scales for assessing surgical pain. J Am Coll Surg 2005; 201(2):245-252.
6. Chang CH, Reeve BB. Item response theory and its application to outcomes measurement. Eval Health Prof 2005;28(3):264-282.
7. Edelman P, Fulton B, Kuhn D, Chang CH. A comparison of three methods of measuring dementia-specific quality of life: Perspectives of residents, staff, and observers. Gerontologist, 2005; 45 (Supp1 1):27-36.
8. Chang, CH, Cella D, Wright BD. (2005). Measurement consistency for different language versions of health-related quality of life instruments. In N. Bezruczko (Ed.), Rasch Measurement in Health Sciences (p. 152-160). Maple Grove, MN: JAM Press.