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