Reliability of the Matson Evaluation of Drug Side Effects Scale (MEDS)
| Autor: | Christopher S. Baglio, Johnny L. Matson, JoAnne Bielecki, Erik A. Mayville, Jay W. Bamburg, W.Harvin Barnes |
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| Rok vydání: | 1998 |
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Male medicine.medical_specialty Psychometrics education Personality Assessment Consistency (statistics) Internal consistency Intellectual Disability Developmental and Educational Psychology medicine Humans Psychiatry Reliability (statistics) Neurologic Examination Observer Variation Psychotropic Drugs Reproducibility of Results Social Behavior Disorders Checklist Clinical Psychology Inter-rater reliability Scale (social sciences) Drug side effects Female Psychology Clinical psychology |
| Zdroj: | Research in developmental disabilities. 19(6) |
| ISSN: | 0891-4222 |
| Popis: | The potential negative effects of psychoactive medication are well documented. Given the high rate of their use in persons with mental retardation, the need to assess and identify these negative effects is great. The Matson Evaluation of Drug Side Effects (MEDS) was designed to evaluate commonly identified side effects with a psychometrically sound checklist. The initial psychometric properties of this scale are presented and discussed. An examination of interrater reliability and internal consistency revealed that the MEDS has excellent consistency across raters and good internal consistency. Potential uses for the scale and directions for future research are reviewed as well. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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