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 - 2019/1/1
Y1 - 2019/1/1
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. 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.
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. 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.
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U2 - 10.1176/appi.ps.201900038
DO - 10.1176/appi.ps.201900038
M3 - Article
C2 - 31337321
AN - SCOPUS:85074377680
VL - 70
SP - 1040
EP - 1043
JO - Psychiatric Services
JF - Psychiatric Services
SN - 1075-2730
IS - 11
ER -