Abstract
OBJECTIVE: The authors sought to develop and validate a suite of dimensional measures of psychiatric syndromes for use in a criminal justice population. METHODS: The previously validated Computerized Adaptive Test-Mental Health (CAT-MH) was administered to a sample of 475 defendants in the Cook County Bond Court. Item-level data were used to determine which test items exhibited differential item functioning in this population compared with the population used for the original calibration. RESULTS: After removal of nine items that exhibited differential item functioning from the CAT-MH, correlations between scores based on the original calibration from a nonjustice-involved population and the newly computed scores based on a sample of bond court defendants showed a correlation coefficient of r=0.96 to r=0.99. CONCLUSIONS: With a slight modification of the original CAT-MH, the tool was successfully used to measure severity of depression, anxiety, mania and/or hypomania, suicidality, and substance use disorder in an English- and Spanish-speaking criminal justice population.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 1040-1043 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Journal | Psychiatric services (Washington, D.C.) |
| Volume | 70 |
| Issue number | 11 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Nov 1 2019 |
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Keywords
- Jails &
- prisons/mental health services, Assessment/psychiatric
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Psychiatry and Mental health
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Improving the Evaluation of Adult Mental Disorders in the Criminal Justice System With Computerized Adaptive Testing. / Gibbons, Robert D.; Smith, Justin D.; Brown, C. Hendricks; Sajdak, Mary; Tapia, Nneka Jones; Kulik, Andrew; Epperson, Matthew W.; Csernansky, John.
In: Psychiatric services (Washington, D.C.), Vol. 70, No. 11, 01.11.2019, p. 1040-1043.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
TY - JOUR
T1 - Improving the Evaluation of Adult Mental Disorders in the Criminal Justice System With Computerized Adaptive Testing
AU - Gibbons, Robert D.
AU - Smith, Justin D.
AU - Brown, C. Hendricks
AU - Sajdak, Mary
AU - Tapia, Nneka Jones
AU - Kulik, Andrew
AU - Epperson, Matthew W.
AU - Csernansky, John
PY - 2019/11/1
Y1 - 2019/11/1
N2 - OBJECTIVE: The authors sought to develop and validate a suite of dimensional measures of psychiatric syndromes for use in a criminal justice population. METHODS: The previously validated Computerized Adaptive Test-Mental Health (CAT-MH) was administered to a sample of 475 defendants in the Cook County Bond Court. Item-level data were used to determine which test items exhibited differential item functioning in this population compared with the population used for the original calibration. RESULTS: After removal of nine items that exhibited differential item functioning from the CAT-MH, correlations between scores based on the original calibration from a nonjustice-involved population and the newly computed scores based on a sample of bond court defendants showed a correlation coefficient of r=0.96 to r=0.99. CONCLUSIONS: With a slight modification of the original CAT-MH, the tool was successfully used to measure severity of depression, anxiety, mania and/or hypomania, suicidality, and substance use disorder in an English- and Spanish-speaking criminal justice population.
AB - OBJECTIVE: The authors sought to develop and validate a suite of dimensional measures of psychiatric syndromes for use in a criminal justice population. METHODS: The previously validated Computerized Adaptive Test-Mental Health (CAT-MH) was administered to a sample of 475 defendants in the Cook County Bond Court. Item-level data were used to determine which test items exhibited differential item functioning in this population compared with the population used for the original calibration. RESULTS: After removal of nine items that exhibited differential item functioning from the CAT-MH, correlations between scores based on the original calibration from a nonjustice-involved population and the newly computed scores based on a sample of bond court defendants showed a correlation coefficient of r=0.96 to r=0.99. CONCLUSIONS: With a slight modification of the original CAT-MH, the tool was successfully used to measure severity of depression, anxiety, mania and/or hypomania, suicidality, and substance use disorder in an English- and Spanish-speaking criminal justice population.
KW - Jails &
KW - prisons/mental health services, Assessment/psychiatric
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U2 - 10.1176/appi.ps.201900038
DO - 10.1176/appi.ps.201900038
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SP - 1040
EP - 1043
JO - Psychiatric Services
JF - Psychiatric Services
SN - 1075-2730
IS - 11
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