@article{083b0ec0830f4dbcaa32d1a7d8502a11,
title = "Improving the evaluation of adult mental disorders in the criminal justice system with computerized adaptive testing",
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. Itemlevel 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 CATMH, the tool was successfully used to measure severity of depression, anxiety, mania and/or hypomania, suicidality, and substance use disorder in an English- and Spanishspeaking criminal justice population.",
author = "Gibbons, {Robert D.} and Smith, {Justin D.} and Brown, {C. Hendricks} and Mary Sajdak and Tapia, {Nneka Jones} and Andrew Kulik and Epperson, {Matthew W.} and John Csernansky",
note = "Funding Information: This study was supported in part by a grant to Dr. Gibbons from the National Institutes of Health for {"}A New Statistical Paradigm for Measuring Psychopathology Dimensions in Youth{"} (R01-MH-100155) and a grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse to Dr. Brown for the Center for Prevention Implementation Methodology for Drug Abuse and HIV (P30DA027828). The authors thank Kayla Morgan and Katherine Vinaitheerthan for collecting the Computerized Adaptive Test-Mental Health (CAT-MH) data. Funding Information: This study was supported in part by a grant to Dr. Gibbons from the National Institutes of Health for “A New Statistical Paradigm for Measuring Psychopathology Dimensions in Youth” (R01-MH-100155) and a grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse to Dr. Brown for the Center for Prevention Implementation Methodology for Drug Abuse and HIV (P30DA027828). The authors thank Kayla Morgan and Katherine Vinaitheerthan for collecting the Computerized Adaptive Test–Mental Health (CAT-MH) data. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2019 American Psychiatric Association. All rights reserved.",
year = "2019",
doi = "10.1176/appi.ps.201900038",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "70",
pages = "1040--1043",
journal = "Hospital and Community Psychiatry",
issn = "1075-2730",
publisher = "American Psychiatric Association",
number = "11",
}
