The Development of an Individualized, Problem-Oriented Psychiatric Outcome Measure

Authors

John Stevenson, University of Rhode Island
Leigh Mccullough, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Robert Stout
Richard Longabaugh, Brown University

Document Type

Article

Date of Original Version

1-1-1989

Abstract

The authors use the development of one individualized mental health outcome measure, the Major Problem Rating System, to examine psychometric problems for instruments tailored to individual patients. A 280-item computer interview taken by the patient at the outset of treatment solves some reliability and validity problems by standardizing the menu from which a unique set ofproblems is derived Follow-up improvement ratings are made only for baseline-identifiedproblems. Decisions in the design of an individualized measure, testretest reliability, patterns of internal relationships among subscales, and external relationships with other outcome measures are provided. © 1989, SAGE PUBLICATIONS, INC. All rights reserved.

Publication Title, e.g., Journal

Evaluation & the Health Professions

Volume

12

Issue

2

Citation/Publisher Attribution

Stevenson, John, Leigh Mccullough, Robert Stout, and Richard Longabaugh. "The Development of an Individualized, Problem-Oriented Psychiatric Outcome Measure." Evaluation & the Health Professions 12, 2 (1989): 134-158. doi: 10.1177/016327878901200202.