An examination of psychometric properties of study quality assessment scales in meta-analysis: Rasch measurement model applied to the firefighter cancer literature

• Soyeon Ahn ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: s.ahn@miami.edu

  Affiliation Department of Educational and Psychological Studies, School of Education and Human Development, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2581-306X

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• Paulo S. Pinheiro,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, United States of America

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• Laura A. McClure,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, United States of America, Department Public Health Sciences, Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, United States of America

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• Diana R. Hernandez,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department Public Health Sciences, Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, United States of America

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• Alberto J. Caban-Martinez,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, United States of America, Department Public Health Sciences, Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, United States of America

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• David J. Lee

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, United States of America, Department Public Health Sciences, Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, United States of America

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