Psychometric properties

Teesson M, Lynskey M, Manor B, et al The psychometric properties of BSM-IV cannabis use disorders. Brug Alcohol Bepend 68 235—262, 2002 Tsou K, Patrick SL, Walker JM. Physical withdrawal in rats tolerant to delta 9-tetrahydrocannabinol precipitated by a cannabinoid receptor antagonist. Eur J Pharmacol 280 R13-R15, 1995... 

Beck, A. T., Epstein, N., Brown, G.,. Steer, R. A. (1988). An inventory for measuring clinical anxiety Psychometric properties. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 56, 893-897. 

Fitzpatrick, K. K., St Schmidt, N. B. (2000, November). The Discomfort Intolerance Scale (DIS) Psychometric properties and clinical utility in patients with panic disorder. Poster session presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Advancement of Behavior Therapy, New Orleans, LA. 

Schmidt, N. B., Joiner, T. E., Young, J., St Telch, M. J. (1995). The Schema Questionnaire Investigation of psychometric properties and the hierarchical structure of a measure of early maladaptive schemas. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 19, 295-321. 

Birmaher, B., Brent, D.A., Chiappetta, L., Bridge, Monga, S., and Baugher, M. (1999) Psychometric properties of the Screen for Child Anxiety-Related Emotional Disorders (SCARED) a replication study. 1 Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 38 1230-1236. 

March and Amaya-Jackson (personal communication) have developed a self-report PTSD screening measure, the Child and Adolescent Trauma Screen (CATS) that has demonstrated excellent factor analytic and psychometric properties across the domains of reexperiencing, avoidance, and hyperarousal. Amaya-Jackson et al. (2000) developed the Child PTSD Checklist, which is a child-friendly instrument with sound psychometric properties that can provide a formal diagnosis of PTSD. 

Beck, A.T., Steer, R.A., and Garbin, M.G. (1988) Psychometric properties of the Beck Depression Inventory twenty-five years of evaluation. Clin Psychol Rev 8 77-100. 

Because the principal focus of pharmacoeconomics is to incorporate outcomes in the demonstration of the value of a therapy, the quality of life that results from a therapy has received a great deal of attention in recent years. Most frequently, quality of life is measured using standardized instruments to collect patient-reported quality of life. These instruments are traditionally developed using patient or expert interviews to establish the areas of inquiry or domains of the instrument The use of these instruments in pharmacoeconomics is heavily dependent on the demonstrated psychometric properties of the instrument, such as its reliability, validity and responsiveness, or on sensitivity to the changes in the disease to be studied. 

Fresco, D.M., Coles, M.E., Heimberg, R.G., et al. The Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale a comparison of the psychometric properties of self-report and clinician administered formats. Psychol. Med. 31(6), 1025-1035, 2001. 

Suitable for repeated administration Has a minimal learning curve Underlying psychometric properties do not change with repeated testing... 

Blanchard, EB, Jones-Alexander, J, Buckley, TC, Fomeris, CA. Psychometric Properties of the PTSD Checklist (PCL). Behaviour Research and Therapy, 34, 669-673, 1996... 

Two popular patient satisfaction measures for which psychometric properties have been investigated and reported include 1) Ware et al. s Patient Satisfaction Questionnaire and 2) MacKeigan and Larson s... 

Responsiveness, or sensitivity to change, is the ability or power of the measure to detect clinically important change when it occurs. Although some authors have suggested that responsiveness is a psychometric property of a measure distinct from validity, others argue that responsiveness is an aspect of validity rather than a separate property. ... 

Freeman EW, Sammel MD, Liu L, Martin P. Psychometric properties of a menopausal symptom list. Menopause 2003 10 258-265. 

Waller, G. et al (2001). Psychometric properties of the long and short versions of the Young Schema Questionnaire Core beliefs among bulimic and comparison women. Cognitive Therapy and Research 25 137-47. 

The expected supervision scale has 6 items, and both versions are shown in Table 9.6. Scale items were developed based on the discussion of supervisor behavior required to ensure new employee safety in Chap. 4, Sect. 4.2.8. At the time of writing, no data on the psychometric properties of this scale had been collected. As noted in Chap. 3, supervision of new employees should be a specific task assigned to supervisors. Furthermore, new employees are likely to expect that supervisors will be there to ensure their safety. As noted in many places in this book, the perception that a system has a component which is there to protect a person from risk can lead to more risk being taken. Thus, it is very important that new employees have a realistic perception of the degree of supervision that they will receive. It is also important to note that employees (job incumbents) are asked to complete this scale—not supervisors. Employees should be able to respond to the items in terms of the experiences they have had with supervision, whereas supervisors may respond in terms of what higher management expect of them, rather than their actual supervision of new employees. 

Sexton J.B., Helmreich, R.L., Neilands, T.B., Rowan, K., Vella, K., Boyden, J., Roberts, P.R. and Thomas. E.J. 2006. The Safely Attitudes Questionnaire Psychometric properties, benchmarking data, and emerging research. BMC Health ServRes., 6, 44. 

Smits, M., Christiaans-Dingelhoff, L, Wagner, C., vander Wal, G. and Groenewegen, PP 2008. The psychometric properties of Hospital Smvey on Patient Safety Crrlture in Dutch hospitals. BMC Health Services Research, 8,230. 

Sorra, J.S. and Dyer, N. 2010. Mttltilevel psychometric properties of the AHRQ hospital sttrvey on patient safety cultme. BMC Health Services Research, 10, 199. 

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