Identifying levels of general distress in first line mental health services
| Autor: | Berend Terluin, Bart Schrieken, Rob R. Meijer, Lex Wunderink, Jan van Bebber, Sjoerd Sytema, Marieke Wichers, Johanna T. W. Wigman, Jorge N. Tendeiro, Janneke Broeksteeg |
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| Přispěvatelé: | General practice, APH - Mental Health, APH - Aging & Later Life, Interdisciplinary Centre Psychopathology and Emotion regulation (ICPE), Psychometrics and Statistics, Clinical Cognitive Neuropsychiatry Research Program (CCNP) |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Psychometrics General Practice Anxiety 0302 clinical medicine lcsh:Psychiatry Item response theory 030212 general & internal medicine Child Somatoform Disorders VERSION POPULATION Netherlands Aged 80 and over education.field_of_study Depression 05 social sciences Middle Aged SYMPTOM QUESTIONNAIRE 4DSQ Telemedicine Psychiatry and Mental health Distress RELIABILITY Female medicine.symptom Psychology Research Article Clinical psychology Adult Mental Health Services Adolescent lcsh:RC435-571 NORMATIVE DATA Population ITEM RESPONSE THEORY Diagnosis Differential Young Adult 03 medical and health sciences 0502 economics and business eHealth medicine Journal Article Humans VALIDITY education Aged Reproducibility of Results medicine.disease Mental health Self Report Somatization Stress Psychological 050203 business & management |
| Zdroj: | van Bebber, J, Wigman, J T W, Wunderink, L, Tendeiro, J N, Wichers, M, Broeksteeg, J, Schrieken, B, Sytema, S, Terluin, B & Meijer, R R 2017, ' Identifying levels of general distress in first line mental health services : can GP-and eHealth clients' scores be meaningfully compared? ', BMC Psychiatry, vol. 17, no. 1, pp. 382 . https://doi.org/10.1186/s12888-017-1552-3 BMC Psychiatry, 17(1). BioMed Central BMC Psychiatry BMC Psychiatry, 17(1):382. BMC BMC Psychiatry, Vol 17, Iss 1, Pp 1-9 (2017) |
| ISSN: | 1471-244X |
| Popis: | Background The Four-Dimensional Symptom Questionnaire (4DSQ) (Huisarts Wetenschap 39: 538–47, 1996) is a self-report questionnaire developed in the Netherlands to distinguish non-specific general distress from depression, anxiety, and somatization. This questionnaire is often used in different populations and settings and there is a paper-and-pencil and computerized version. Methods We used item response theory to investigate whether the 4DSQ measures the same construct (structural equivalence) in the same way (scalar equivalence) in two samples comprised of primary mental health care attendees: (i) clients who visited their General Practitioner responded to the 4DSQ paper-and-pencil version, and (ii) eHealth clients responded to the 4DSQ computerized version. Specifically, we investigated whether the distress items functioned differently in eHealth clients compared to General Practitioners’ clients and whether these differences lead to substantial differences at scale level. Results Results showed that in general structural equivalence holds for the distress scale. This means that the distress scale measures the same construct in both General Practitioners’ clients and eHealth clients. Furthermore, although eHealth clients have higher observed distress scores than General Practitioners’ clients, application of a multiple group generalized partial credit response model suggests that scalar equivalence holds. Conclusions The same cutoff scores can be used for classifying respondents as having low, moderate and high levels of distress in both settings. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (10.1186/s12888-017-1552-3) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. |
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